Recent content by Mr. Greengoat

Thanks Tajo, I backed both Magic and now Gods so I am glad they got the thorough treatment. I am one of those American mono-linguals so I appreciate it. Good luck.

I don't want to stir any criticisms of a pretty good text, but what is the gist of the translation concerns? I played through at the table as GM through the first published adventure with my home group and didnt run into any confusion. Just an errata issue? (I picked up a couple pocket books to...

I first looked at DSA when the english translated books were offered on a Bundle of Holding and was intrigued by what felt like an alternate reality version of D&D. It's kind of hard to explain that The Dark Eye feels like an old pedigree game introduced afresh to a new crowd. The feeling of...

Me and the little ones have been playing Dungeon! and they love it. This one looks cool in a heroquest kind of way. I wonder how much "role playing" and funny voices will be encouraged. I see that the characters has "race" printed on the char card. I wonder if they will get rid of it. Hope so.

I don't know why FLGS opt to not do Free Rpg Day. Free comic book day is always killer business for comic stores that I know of. Is it the pain to organize tables for the day or dealing with grabby neckbeards over the free giveaways? I have seen some stores give away the freebies with purchases...

I believe the sailing characters are supposed to look like little gaming miniatures. I find it charming, but your mileage may vary depending on your love of kludgey fantasy sculpts.

Where do they say ANYTHING like that? I can't find it in any of their statements or texts. This looks more like you projecting an opinion on the quality of diverse voices in game design & writing. As if you are saying that non-white or non-cis gamers can't write anything of quality. As if you...

I don't know sir, I respectfully differ. I think the differences between the iterations across the game is clear, but TFT melee looks a lot like the advanced combat rules from 3rd GURPS. Both systems are heavy on hexes and facing. Both have DX and ST attributes. Both games have you roll 3d6...

Isn't Dungeon Fantasy a current transmogrified version of The Fantasy Trip? You can trace a clear line from TFT to Man to Man to GURPS to Dungeon Fantasy. I think all they would need to do is knock many bells and whistles off the Dungeon Fantasy box and release Melee and Wizard in little 17...

SJG is not alone in setting an above average price for their PDFs. The pricing is in line with what they have been charging on their own longstanding digital storefront. I believe they charge more because their feel they have a higher quality product in terms of usability per page than most and...

I can only find that having the same retro-clone rules done in various art styles and layouts a good thing if only for a choice in selection. More to the point, the artwork quality in the new 3rd S&W book is composed and designed with more panache than most of the OSR books out there. (and way...

Whenever my home game starts to unravel because of scheduling (we are all doing the middle aged parent thing), I consider switching over to DMing an organized play game to ensure enough players. The problem is that, as a player, it is really hard to get into the community in my gaming-active...

I disagree and agree with your disagreement. Basic can totally do heroism and story based play, and dungeoneering so I agree with you there. But, in my experince in Basic with rules as written, the beginning characters are far less capable than in later editions in D&D. Not that a game group...

I agree that "player skill" or system mastery has mutated over the editions. (Perhaps it has gotten more abstract with modern char-op versus old-school dungeon-paranoia?) But I do know 1st level characters are twice as fragile as 2nd level charcters. A second level character can take one hit...

Hope it went well. Although there is an element of helpless futility at beginning levels (D&D as Vietnam), constantly tearing up character sheets gets old for me. I have found that the leathality starts to diminish after PCs hit 2nd and then 3rd level. The players tend to be wiser and pragmatic...