Recent content by Jürgen Hubert

The closest are probably the assorted blog posts I wrote and tagged with it - they contain numerous worked examples: http://german-geek.blogspot.de/search/label/random%20nations%20generator?m=0

That's not what I am saying at all, and neither does Kenneth Hite - he even wrote a role-playing game based on his works! (Trail of Cthulhu) But neither is the racism something we should ignore when either discussing Lovecraft or his works.

Here is what Kenneth Hite has to say - a scholar whose opinion I trust, not the least because he is an RPG author as well: 'This will do as well as anywhere as a place to remind a 21st century readership that Lovecraft’s racism is not somehow “separate” from his other thought, for all that it...

This is often rather hard to separate, with Lovecraft. Lovecraft himself was very reactionary, not to mention racist. His loathing of miscegenation echoes in "The Shadow over Innsmouth", and his story "He" could be interpreted as "Guy freaks out because some Asians have a Rave Party in Future...

If you want to look at other settings with politicial leanings embedded within them: World of Darkness: Left-wing horror, since it focuses on alienation of the self from society. Call of Cthulhu: Right-wing horror, since it presents human society as something fragile that needs to be protected...

Yeah, this is what put me off buying the game for a long time - I finally bought "Edge of the Empire" last Friday, and I am glad I did. Though... €15 for a single dice pack? Of which a player will need at least two to create a full dice pool? Ouch!

That assumes that "apolitical" is something that is actually common in RPGs. Most RPG settings have underlying political influences and assumptions. Not being aware of these assumptions does not mean they not exist.

It's not. Money, for me, is a secondary concern - though it is a nice bonus, it will still earn me far less than what I earn via my day job. I do this because I enjoy writing settings. But I am interested in some hard statistical data. Who, among those who got a certain product for free, will...

Since I am planning on two lines of products, I think I will make the "core product" for each "Pay What You Want" - and for one line all will be "Pay What You Want", while for the other the rest will have fixed prices. That should give me some data for comparison's sake.

How do you want to make that gameable? Note that I am not advocating that the players must learn the "ultimate truth" of the universe they are inhabiting. However, if the GM makes up their mind in advance, then they can at least come up with consistent consequences of their metaphysics, which...

And it's up for sale! With the "Pay What You Want" option, so you can check it out for free.

I think the general idea is to make 5e as "timeline neutral" as possible so that people can use all their old books (as well as the PDFs at D&DClassics). Therefore, it makes sense to publish the entire Dragonlance pantheon, even if some of the gods are missing in the "current" spot of the timeline.

I am currently doing my own sandbox/hexcrawl campaign, with a hex map of 8x10 hexes with a diameter of 10 miles each - a bit larger than what you need, but I hope it might be useful. I am still filling out the details as the campaign progresses, but by now I have something for most of the hexes...

No - I sadly have little time for TV. It also fits with the themes of Numenera, as well as the genre Numenera is part of - there are strange religions all over the place, and using ancient artifacts to provide "miracles" for the believers is very much a common trope. How about this: That...

As someone who has embarked on self-publication this past Sunday, this thread is directly relevant to my interests. First of all... I am not doing this for the money. I realize that only a small minority of RPG authors can make a living from their writings, and I suspect that all of them make...