Recent content by The Butcher

I did look into Pinnacle's web site and Christ, that's a lot of Rifts material.

I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate and suggest no system can truly be called "universal" or "generic" -- insofar as any given ruleset imprints a certain feel to the games it's used to run. No one who's experienced, say, both GURPS and Savage Worlds would even consider saying these games feel the...

It was Benoist! I remember that thread. He posted some epic spreads.

I know the title might come across as horribly lazy and self-indulgent on my part, so no pressure on anyone to respond. But I'm curious about a few things and if any Pub regulars feel like filling me in on my old faves, I'm your very appreciative huckleberry. What's been released, and what's in...

If you're a cishet dude like me your gender credit card already comes with debt. Respectfully laughing at the small print. And yeah, it was Gandhi -- I'm less in disagreement of his jape implying that the West was uncivilized, than of the idea that civilization would eliminate violence.

I would definitely not call my neighborhood "forested" but we had toucans, parrots, a hawk once, and the odd opossum and hedgehog in our street.

Surely another signpost along Western Civilization's path towards decline and irrelevance. You will remember this as a turning point, when your children are pressed into gangs of ethnically ambiguous pansexual woke militias. On a more serious note, I hope not. There are some great old posts...

Not if he pays a terrible price for it.

FROG, GIANT, MEGA DONG AC 7, HD 3*, #att 1 bite + ejaculation, dmg 1d6+special, treasure type F, save as F1, XP value 45, SA: deadly emission (20' line, save vs. breath weapon or treat as web spell) Just came with this shooting the shit over WhatsApp with some old gaming buddies. Don’t ask.

Outlaw (strongly favor this one) Scoundrel Prowler Hunter Bandit

Shadowrun retro simulacrum, tribute or heartbreaker? Yeah, I might get into that.

(WTF did I just write. Answering the actual question.) I am slightly more open to new settings than new systems; and within new systems, I am predisposed towards specific ones rather than generic ones; but I really am open to all three. Though not much, as I am a lazy bum even when it comes to...

It’s taken me q while to post a proper response to the question asked in the title because I’ve been thinking about it. But… here are my choices, in no particular order. The Old World (WFRP). Like I said above it’s probably my favorite use of “Gygaxian building blocks” and the distinctly...

I firmly believe that the ideal approach would be Professor Barker’s own: Start off as foreigners confined to the Foreigners’ Quarter in Jakálla. (This way the characters’ ignorance of the setting can mirror the players’, and they will first engage with the world as a play construct instead of...