Recent content by Nick J

Best Selling RPGs - Available Now @ DriveThruRPG.com
  1. Nick J

    OSR: what is it even

    Published railroad scenarios in D&D didn’t really start until Dragonlance, so that’s not exactly true. As to what the term OSR even means now, I’m not entirely sure? Early on it was just a loose community of people that coalesced around the notion of playing earlier versions of D&D and a...
  2. Nick J

    Favourite or Best Original RPG Fantasy Setting?

    There's a lot of settings I really like (Moorcock's Young Kingdoms is right up there, and Jack Vance's Lyonesse), but ultimately I settled on Dolmenwood (OSR). Just the perfect blend of fairytale weirdness and gameable stuff.
  3. Nick J

    How many years have you been playing RPGs (including GMing)?

    Aside from the gap in my early to mid twenties when I was more interested in getting laid and going to clubs/bars, it's 36 years . . . Am I officially old?
  4. Nick J

    One D&D

    This is one of the silliest fucking things I've ever read on this site. Amazing.
  5. Nick J

    One D&D

    I feel you. I grew up in the country, so if I missed that bus, it was 5 miles on a BMX to elementary school, or a 15 mile ride on my ten-speed to junior high and high school. Let's just say I was in great shape as someone who liked to sleep in.
  6. Nick J

    One D&D

    Yeah . . . well 12 year-olds were a lot more mature back then. Most of them were chimney sweeps, loggers, farm hands, and were required to walk ten miles one-way to school every day and lived off of scrounged up wood grubs, and handmade their own clothes . . . or at least that's the way it was...
  7. Nick J

    Does Anyone Get Pushback for Using Old Editions?

    The people I play with are all super chill and open to playing all sorts of rulesets ( and we don’t play D&D) but in the past when I was a player unhappy with whatever flavor of D&D someone was running, I’d just keep my mouth shut or shuffle off to find another game. If anybody is so entitled...
  8. Nick J

    Recommend to me a good 'Build/Wiki your Campaign' website

    I think World Anvil is a little over the top, but I guess if you like complexity and need its features it certainly works. I used it and Obsidian Portal for awhile, but finally settled on https://rolescape.io/ which has just enough of what I want and not a lot of cruft. I've also been using...
  9. Nick J

    Mythras Imperative ORC edition

    She’s saving up, in the meantime it’s “ward location, shins”.
  10. Nick J

    BECMI D&D is overrated

    The words "Basic" and "Advanced" also had a huge impact on me and my friends when were were 12. Basic implied, "it's for babies" and Advanced promised a more mature and sophisticated game. Maybe things are different now, but back then, nobody I know at 12 wanted to be thought of as a child or a...
  11. Nick J

    [Mythras] Mythic Constantinop;e: The Curse of Triton - Now Available

    Welp, there goes my resolution to slow down on RPG purchases this year.
  12. Nick J

    Your World Awaits! How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox Kickstarter

    In like Flynn! Happy to support anything you do Rob (thanks again for salvaging what you could of the Judges Guild thingamabob a few years ago).
  13. Nick J

    BECMI D&D is overrated

    Is BECMI some huge nostalgia trip somewhere that I don't know about? I'm pretty middle of the road GenX and while the Redbox Mentzer set was my first exposure to D&D/RPGs, and I was instantly drawn in by the awesome Elmore box art and all of the interior illustrations, that's about where I see...
  14. Nick J

    So.... Baldur's Gate 3

    As time permits (between work and renovating my house) I've been having a great time with the game and have treated my first play-though as a sort of experiment with the mechanics and all of the classes, respeccing my main character and companions like crazy just to see how D&D 5e really works...
Banner: The best cosmic horror & Cthulhu Mythos @ DriveThruRPG.com
Back
Top