Recent content by Swanosaurus

As far as I am concerned, what's broken is the logic that you have to reproduce the complete production value package of a big company as an indie creator. Do what you're great at, wing the rest or just leave it out if it isn't strictly necessary. Upping the standard to "it must have art that...

They were calling themselves the Sad Puppies, but Sick Puppies would have been so much more fitting!

Jodorowsky could have done it (which doesn't mean that it would have been good, but at least interesting ...).

"That chewing gum you like is coming back in style."

Yes, that is kind of weird ... what they show in the trailer actually looks more like an "inquel" about the Jihad. Apart from Duncan, there's nothing there that I could place anywhere in Dune: Messiah, let alone Children of Dune. Not sure how much of CoD they will include, anyway. To be honest...

Yes, the Duncan clones are actually pretty much the most prominent character(s) of the whole series (occasionally to a bleakly-ironic effect, as in God-Emperor: "Oh, crushed the last Duncan, I guess I'll have to order a new one ...").

I can't quite say that I like God-Emperor of Dune (though I'm still not quite sure whether it's deeply homophobic or more kind of well-intentioned, but missing the mark - I'd have to read it again to even get an idea ...). But in terms of imagery, it left an enormous impression with me. and I'd...

Well, at least he will live to a much greater age than his grandfather.

RE: Creating characters, there's also the question what you actually want to do. I prefer simply playing systems where I enjoy character creation. If we presuppose that everyone is doing character creation with some online tool, anyway, it's no wonder if it becomes bloated. I'd rather have my...

Well, to look at the upside, that would be the day I could finally stop following new releases and just keep playing happily with my printed books and my phyisical dice and pencils for the rest of me life, knowing that all that other stuff that's going on out there doesn't pertain to me anymore.

Don't beat yourself up! It didn't connect with me the first time ... I've read it a total of four times, because I translated it into German (there was an older translation, but they wanted to do a new one, and I got to do it). It took me that many times to really appreciate it, and I only got...

Samuel R. Delany, Nova. It's fun, it's intellectually satisfying, it prefigures tons of core concepts of later science fiction, it is supremely well written. I'm not sure if it is my favourite sf novel, but if I have to pick one single best one, it's Nova.

To get further sidetrecked: How do people feel about diegetic/extradiegetic metacurrency? Personally, I'm fine with metacurrency (though I prefer if there is only one, in player's hands), but I really don't like it if it's turned into something diegetic. I yet have to so an RPG where this...

I found myself rotating back to the more "open" games I was used to in the nineties, the ones that didn't got totally overboard with the rules, but strived to provide you with a reasonable list of tools to create all kind of characters and resolve all kinds of adventurous situations within the...

That's one that I didn't get on the page, as well. So effectively, you just get a +6 in your primary attributes, right? But instead, they choose to express that as TNs differing between 12 and 18, depending on what you roll, and act as if that would be an innovation that changes everything ...