WFRP 1st edition is punk D&D. Change my mind.
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Stray thought: “modern day Warhammer” would look a lot like Eden Studios’ Armageddon RPG.
My love of D&D is waning. My nostalgia for oWoD is waxing.
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.
Terry Dykstra is D&D's most underrated artist.
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?)
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?
Is there a Discord server for the Pub? Or am I misremembering?
The D&D5 Rogue class. Is there anything it can't do? So many great choices.
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.
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?
Nothing signals the twilight of the OSR like the inactivity of Your Dungeon Is Suck.
Redbreast 12 is amazing.
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.
Never been one for RPG art books but The Art of Mage tempts me because Michael William Kaluta.
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.
Jesus Christ, Heroes Unlimited is one seriously crazy game.
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.
Bashing D&D and Gary Gygax is the Oedipal complex of the hobby.
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.
I love you, Jolly Blackburn. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213770574053174&set=a.1013867241549&type=3
Happy New Year, you crazy elf game people you.
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 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
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 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.
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.)
TIL the Dragonlance fans in my old gaming group still get mad when I suggest the Dragonlance novels are less than stellar. (To wit: we're all late 30s, early 40s)
“Summoned by a Wizard” is a damn fine thread.
London, I am in you.
The thing about not gaming is that it’s sort of a self-reinforcing state, isn’t it? The longer it’s been the more difficult it becomes to pierce the non-gaming bubble. At least as a GM.
Savage Rifts still too crunchy. Wish I could like Fate or something similarly abstract because that seems like the best strategy to decrunchify without losing the fun bits.
Reading The Anubis Gates for the first time (fuck, it's good) and watching Dark (first seasons, also really good, if confusing at times) so yeah, on a sinister time travel mood. How to gamify this?
Watching Firefly. Fuck, that's aged badly.
People complaining about the GoT finale: WTF were you expecting? That a series infamous for narrative turnabouts would deliver a nice and tidy finale that would make everyone happy? It was rushed, indeed (and I still can’t fathom why) but it was an interesting conclusion and true to many of the themes explored throughout the series. Spoilers fair game in comments.
@AsenRG is writing a love letter to Traveller. I sat down to write a love letter to Rifts but it really came out more of a Dear John letter.
Feeling cute. Might promise my friends a game I cannot possibly run later idk
Fans ruin everything.
First Avengers, now GoT... still excited
Fucking impossible to order a gin & tonic in town these days. They come in huge goblets with a bunch of nonsensical garnishes. I hope these people never “discover” the Tom Collins. -
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