Recent content by Swanosaurus

Watched it at the cinema a few days ago, and yeah, it was really great. My favourite scenes are actually not the comical moments (though they are great), but the ones that nearly (well, in one case, not only nearly) brought me to tears. Like that one phonecall were the person who we thought was...

That's a really great idea! I never thought of keeping a "death score", I will do that with the next one.

Well, I guess that any misunderstandings about that will clear up pretty quickly. There's little risk that anyone will back this not realising it is NOT T5. However, I do find labelling things 5e as if D&D were the only rpg in the world (or at least the only one with five or more editions)...

By the way, didn't Timothy Brown write the Dragon Kings setting? I actually really liked that one ...

Let's revive this Fighting Fantasy thread! I recently played through Forest of Doom and Citadel of Chaos with my kids (8 and 11), reading them to them, letting them decide and mapping out everything ... and for the first time, we found the solution to both (it took 3 goes each time, and...

Very confusing ... if you transplant the core activities of Traveller to 5e, even if you are succesful, what do you get but an RPG that people who are looking for a 5e experience wouldn't want to play? If it would just be a setting adaptation of the Third Imperium that stays true to the core 5e...

I think I have a hard time to with the kind of decision-making where equipment is essential - I think it would usually be technical decision-making - how to scale a wall, how to disarm a trap, stuff like that. I really don't have any technical imagination at all (if I need to fix a board to the...

Too many good points to answer them individually! My takeaway is that my disconnect is mainly due to the fact that I tend to prefer "Big damn heroes", but in a more gritty context. That context is well provided by Shadowdark or Into the Odd; however, I'm not interested in the whole "let's go...

I really like a lot of the ideas behind recent streamlined old-school games like Into the Odd, Mausritter, Shadowdark, Liminal Horror ... but one thing that really doesn't work to me how they tend to put your inventory front and center, often linking it directly to health/wounds. I just never...

Since a lot of GURPS settings habe been mentioned in the thread about Revised 4rth edition, I thought I'd start a thread were people can gush about GURPS settings old and new. I'll make a start with Banestorm: I never played it and read the new version only cursory a few years ago because I...

Pendragon might be a case - it really enforced certain themes of honour and chivalry romance through the rules.

TBH, I still consider Dungeon Fantasy a weird choice to draw in new people ... While I can see why anyone who already plays GURPS might like a ready-made powercrunch fantasy implementation, but I do not know why someone should choose it over D&D, or DCC, or any other more classic Dungeon RPG...

It's a feature, but it also entails something really intimidating about GURPS. I mean, if I want to create an intelligent spider that communicates by tapping its feet, I will probably able to create that in GURPS, but it might be a logistical nightmare not only to build that character, but to...

I do get the idea of not wanting to be forced into a meta mindset more then necessary (and in the context of GURPS, that's why I really dislike the "Luck" advantage, which feels out of place here). Though I must say that what constitutes "meta" is highly subjective in itself. I'm fine with...

I also can totally see deafness still being a relevant disadvantage in certain situations, even if you can communicate telepathically: Not hearing a shot fired, or a rock tumbling down ...