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...
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.
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...
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.
(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...
Late to the party, but:
WFRP has long since evolved into its own very distinctive thing, and the world is a happier place for it, but I still consider it one of my favo(u)rite uses of what James Malizewski used to call "Gygaxian building blocks" -- you know, dwarves, elves, orcs, dragons...
I usually get this comment when people first meet him, or look at a photo of him. Hair's differente but facial features and body type are very similar.
Baby Butcher (age 6, turns 7 next May; maybe "Baby" no longer applies) was right next to me playing with his Star Wars Legos when, voicing Lego Leia duking it out with a Stormtrooper, said something to the effect of "a Stromtrooper's wages is DEATH" followed by pew pew blaster fire and a...
Sad state of the world that nudity can be seen as evil by some. "Created in God's image" indeed.
Though arguably there's plenty of man-made tampering of the pharmaceutical sort in Mr. Cena's physique. But that's beside the point.
It’s 2024 for God’s sake. Screw flying cars, I want quick and easy, inexpensive and up-to-date character creation apps for every tabletop RPG under the sun.
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