The Butcher

The Butcher · Thursday at 11:57 AM

The purported wisdom of experience and maturity fails to provide simple answers for some old questions. For twenty-eight I have been asked, “what is Rifts?” and I dread the question now every but as much as I dreaded it in the past. Maybe even more so.

The Butcher · Jan 10, 2021

I went into my DTRPG library to download the Savage Rifts Player's Handbook (which I got backing the original KS, pre-SWADE) and it's gone from DTRPG. WTF??? Now I'm mad.

The Butcher · Dec 31, 2020

Happy New Year. May all wounds heal.

The Butcher · Dec 20, 2020

Grand Conjunction! So cool. Never been into astronomy but starting to dig it. Don't even have a telescope, just a mobile phone AR app and the hope that it won't be too cloudy.

The Butcher · Dec 12, 2020

I have just learned that there are novels set in the Rifts Phase World setting and that one of the antagonists is an elf called Elias Harkonnen.

Come on, Palladium, help me help you.

The Butcher · Dec 10, 2020

Tried to read an Age of Sigmar book and it reads like the only tenuously coherent canon to a crazy Korean MMO. The tech dwarves are cool, though.

The Butcher · Nov 30, 2020

My fascination with early 2010s D&D retro-clones endures. My brain says ACKS but my heart says Hyperborea.

The Butcher · Nov 23, 2020

The idea of an irreconcilable split between “Purist” and “Pulp” Lovecraftian role playing is utter bullshit.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Mankcam · Nov 21, 2020

Great profile pic and sig mate !!!

The Butcher · Nov 14, 2020

Sorry for not being very active on actual gaming threads. The longer you go without gaming, the more it feels like something you won’t be doing anymore... then again, maybe this is the kick in the pants I need.

The Butcher · Nov 2, 2020

Plenty of good D&Desque videogames, but where are the Travelleresque ones?

The Butcher · Oct 22, 2020

Unrealistic melee weapons annoy me. Especially “warhammers” that look like cartoon mallets. Guess which game does this the most...

The Butcher · Oct 3, 2020

Too hot for whisky. Beer or G&T?

The Butcher · Sep 27, 2020

WFRP 1st edition is punk D&D. Change my mind.

The Butcher · Sep 18, 2020

Stray thought: “modern day Warhammer” would look a lot like Eden Studios’ Armageddon RPG.

The Butcher · Sep 18, 2020

My love of D&D is waning. My nostalgia for oWoD is waxing.

The Butcher · Sep 10, 2020

Tempers seem to be flaring in some threads, which makes me worry about everyone's mental health. Anyone wanna vent? I'm listening. Here, PM, or Discord. Your call.

The Butcher · Aug 31, 2020

Terry Dykstra is D&D's most underrated artist.

The Butcher · Aug 22, 2020

Some ideas for Call of Cthulhu:
- Roll 3d6 (or 4d6-drop-lowest for a pulpier feel) and assign to taste. Screw 2d6+6 and 3d6+3.
- Calculate skill base levels from attributes, like RQ6/Mythras. Except Credit Rating. Starts at 0% (or maybe do away with it altogether -- maybe with a Social Standing attribute?)

The Butcher · Aug 22, 2020

Maybe it's a byproduct of not doing a lot of gaming but every time I read a rulebook now it seems I want to write my own version of the rules. Which of course I am never, ever doing. Or am I?

The Butcher · Aug 1, 2020

Is there a Discord server for the Pub? Or am I misremembering?

The Butcher · Jul 12, 2020

The D&D5 Rogue class. Is there anything it can't do? So many great choices.

The Butcher · Jul 11, 2020

I am being told by an old timer in our group (a notorious railroader GM, no less) that I am a bad person for having people roll for their starting career in WFRP. And this is not a random internet person, it’s a friend who I’ve been gaming with on and off for 20+ years. Seriously, this fucking hobby.

The Butcher · Jun 27, 2020

This is 2020. I can live with not having flying cars but why don’t we have handy apps that automate character creation and character sheet management for every RPG?

The Butcher · Jun 25, 2020

Nothing signals the twilight of the OSR like the inactivity of Your Dungeon Is Suck.

The Butcher · Apr 22, 2020

Redbreast 12 is amazing.

The Butcher · Mar 31, 2020

Can we close the whole poster ranking system and just agree that @Séadna is the best poster in this imaginary establishment? Head over to the “Issues with the forum” thread and you’ll see what I mean.

The Butcher · Mar 24, 2020

Never been one for RPG art books but The Art of Mage tempts me because Michael William Kaluta.

The Butcher · Feb 23, 2020

As a kid I had Masters of the Universe, Thundercats and of course Thundarr the Barbarian on the TV growing up. I was primed from an early age to love SF/fantasy cross-genre stuff.

The Butcher · Feb 20, 2020

Jesus Christ, Heroes Unlimited is one seriously crazy game.

The Butcher · Feb 18, 2020

Why does Spotify keep pushing Saxon into my mixes? They’re like the Monkees of the NWOBHM. Fucking Tygers of Pan Tang is a better band.

The Butcher · Feb 3, 2020

Bashing D&D and Gary Gygax is the Oedipal complex of the hobby.

The Butcher · Jan 22, 2020

Playing Borderlands 3, every time I draw up the star map I have the urge to stat up a Traveller sector based on it. And this is why I will never be an “ex-gamer” — no matter how long I’ve been away from the dice... it’s there. Like a gaping wound.

The Butcher · Jan 11, 2020

I love you, Jolly Blackburn. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213770574053174&set=a.1013867241549&type=3

The Butcher · Jan 1, 2020

Happy New Year, you crazy elf game people you.

The Butcher · Dec 25, 2019

Traveller has to feel pulpy, in the "men's adventure" sense of the word. Star Wars, Firefly, Borderlands and even The Expanse all drink form the same sources; Westerns, Republic serials, early-to-mid C20 SF (which in turn drank from Spengler, Toynbee and other historians who believed in cycles of civilization of barbarism).

The Butcher · Nov 27, 2019

The ceaseless march of uncaring Time drags on as another year nears its end and once more the agonizing question weighs upon my soul:

Will this be the year I break down and order a Palladium Christmas grab bag?

UPDATE: no, it won’t. Already blew too much money on Black Friday stuff. Gaah

The Butcher · Nov 24, 2019

Ten of us will strike at you like thunder
A hundred of us will strike at your hearts
A thousand of us will strike and obliterate you
Ten thousand of us will strike you like the wrath of Heaven!

The Butcher · Oct 25, 2019

The days grow warmer and longer; the sun rises earlier and sets later. The cicadas sing from the tree-tops and the mosquitos attack with renewed vigor. We break out the sunscreen and the repellent. We call it spring, after a colonial affetation, but there can be no mistake -- summer is here.

The Butcher · Oct 17, 2019

I should really run ACKS. I love D&D5 but my DMing heart still belongs to the OSR. (Please do not introduce Mythras or Savage Worlds into this conundrum.)