Recent content by KainGuru

With respect to Gamma World et al there are interesting things happening on Kickstarter through the likes of Troll Lords. They've redone Jim Wards original Metamorphous Alpha as 'Starship Warden': rules agnostic BUT prepped for use in TL's own Star Siege (being printed for delivery as I type). A...

Sorry, ir was just a handy historical analogy. No judgement on the beliefs intended.

Then you have the old conundrum of 'what makes an opinion valid'? No one will agree, some people with have well thought out (to them) justifications that others simply will not accept and there are others who simply have opinions because that's what they choose to believe without much more...

Yeah that's not good, being put on a ignore list for having a different opinion - especially when the OP has phrased the question such as to harvest differing opinions. If the OP simply wanted validation for their opinion then the original question was badly posited.

I'm okie with roll20, I've been to few virtual cons in the past. It's that the other players have never used it and I can't go round to their's to set it up for them

My players are always friends first, and they vary wildly in their individual styles - I try my hardest to accommodate their differences by giving what each player wants from the game. It's a social game first and different campaigns have different things driving the story forward, sometimes...

Note the original was a tournament module so, yeah, it had to end in a big combat - there was money riding on those things back then, not much but still: real-money-for-playing-a-game

The stupidest ways are always the most memorable - it's like the old joke: you can do many noble things in your life but get caught f**king one pig and guess what you'll always be known for (looking at you David Cameron)

In terms of Covid and gaming - what a total BS year. My experience has, being a font line worker in the UK, going into lockdown at work March 2020, having to shield when at home so as not to bring the virus into work or vice versa, last saw 2 of my gaming group 3 months ago for the first time...

Ahhh, I may have stumbled into some history then? happens in every forum

I really didn't think my musings would start a fight, I'm sorry :(

I have always seen modules as framework rather than a complete adventure. Though I am reminded of the original Saltmarsh module, being UK written and produced it had a notably different flavour to the the ones produced in the US - so much so that they acknowledge it in the forward, as well as...

TBH we only played 4e once, and that was after it was canned by WoTC - 4e came out during a period that I call 'The great I really cannot afford any new games at the moment because of austerity and I don't want to become insolvent like so many friends did so knuckle down and pay off all those...

Lol I said I wasn't a huge fan, not that I'm not a fan. I like a lot, an awful lot, about 5e but TBH it's the genre I'm burnt out on - fantasy. Sometimes you need a change and Dredd/2000AD is occupying my attention at the moment (I've read the comic, every issue, since 1977). I'm also of that...

I reference outliers and variation because when I changed continents I became an outlier - social conventions are funny things. More so with RPGs. I look at mechanics and fluff as separate entities - I'm not saying doing something in 5e that emulates a better suited game is the solution. I'm...