I was looking at a thread on another forum and, in passing, someone mentioned 'PCs losing their powers is un-fun'... this was in reaction to an idea where magic spells could be stolen from a character.
Is it really verboten? Bad GMing?
One of my favorite Western movies is Winchester '73, which...
I'm trying to learn Spanish, so in addition to various other things, I thought I'd add in some comics in Espanol. Preferably fantasy/scifi like might have featured in Heavy Metal once upon a time.
So far I've stumbling through Mundo Futuro, from the 50s.
Any recommendations welcome...
I've been watching Yellowjackets lately, and generally I've really liked it... but there's... something... that has been keeping me from fulling loving it like I probably should... some element. I've thought about it... maybe it was the injections of quirky humor where I'd prefer a more serious...
This is my muddled thinking on a ongoing conundrum... do forgive if I'm overlooking the obvious.
I've never played Exalted, but have circled that game for years, buying bits of 1st edition, reading some of it... but never trying to really learn it or play it.
Similarly, I've got a cyclical...
I've been re-reading Geist (1e) and pondering using some of its ideas in another game/setting... but one thing I notice is that it's a bit shy about depicting individual geists... the wierd/spooky/scary NPC beings that make bargains with the newly-dead PCs.
They seem like they oughtta play a...
I was talking with some students today about Mexican and South American ghosts/cryptids... they had some fun ones I hadn't heard of, like the cucuy (a sort of boogyman).
I mentioned to them a news account I remember from several years back about people in apartments of one of the big cities who...
I'm stealing this topic from another place...
So, the idea of cyberpunk with fantasy elements never bothered me... but shoving in the bog-standard fantasy races did. It put me off Shadowrun (in addition to the rules and the people I played it with) and, to a lesser degree, Earthdawn. There is...
OK... I'm waaaay behind the times with videogames. I generally prefer to play on a computer vs. a consol... the newest platform I've got is a PS2.
BUT... the talk about the Dark Souls games, and my experience of them not working well on PC, has me once again considering getting a PS4.
A friend...
I may have brought up this idea before...
I have a recurring idea, born of reading fairy tales, about magical effects linked to Passions.
Minor things... like a princess giving her beloved brother a locket that will, by means of her pure love for him, let her know when he is in danger, or act...
This may not even be a thing... but I'm curious.
If D&D hadn't grabbed its core playable races from Tolkien... elves/dwarves/hobbits... what other primary races might have derived from the various Appendix N sources and been core Player races instead?
Would they be classic mythology creatures...
I was looking at a display of Hot Wheels the other day and remember that I'd been wanting to find/play a futurisic racing game.
I can't think of any modern car racing games besides Gaslands... and most of the older ones I know of are also aimed at Mad Max (or Deathrace) style action.
In...
A while back, while working on a religion for a homebrew setting, I was read about animism, techno-animism, and ancient practices where idols of gods would be punished in various ways if they seemed to be acting against the interest of their followers.
Things like flogging a statue or draping...
I recently saw some new game announced, running on 5e, that sounded a whole lot like it was trying to invoke Dark Sun. But now, doing searches and retracing my steps, I can't seem to find any trace of it.
Anyone got a clue?
(Mod Note: Tangent moved from Cool Minis thread)
Are these really game minis though? They look fragile...
Maybe they're better described as 'figurines'... like Hummels for nerds.
I had an idea for a Call of Cthulhu game using a setup from an old story I read... but I can't recall the name.
It's not horror, more like crime... probably from the pulp era. The hero of the story reports to a group of 'old men'... or 'wise men'... the number of the men is in the title of...
I've started working on a Halloween game for friends next Fall. We're going with a 'traditional' theme (old school Halloween decorations and costumes)... so I was poking around for inspiration and remembered this old thing:
We had a copy at our house... but the game itself was less than the...
I always liked the idea of fantasy airships... sails, dirigibles or steamship-like or whatever.
The first problem I always run into, mentally, is that having such things would severely alter the standared fantasy world layout... full of undiscovered areas, isolated ruins, evil bastions of...
My birthday is coming up and I need a new computer.
I custom built the last two and they've worked fine, but I'm not a computer nerd and have never had a clue where the cutting edge is... also, I don't think I have the patience right now to go out and star researching again. I know better than...
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