Recent content by Swanosaurus

It wasn't a side-effect, because it didn't actually happen. It was, however, his stated goal (at least as per the interview quoted). I'm just happy that he miscalculated.

In Germany, Bielefeld is the city that doesn't exist. I know people who claim to have been there, but clearly, they have been duped.

I'm slowly re-reading the HARP core book and the Folkways supplement, and their really nice rpg books (both in their own, very different ways). The system is old-fashioned, sure, but not more so than other systems from the same family (Against the Darkmaster, Novus, Fantasy Express), and...

For now, I'm pretty sure it hasn't been abandoned - the Banecroft adventure just came out, there's still Phil Masters Steampunk setting in the works, which, according to the ICE newsletter, is pretty much dine, and a rules supplement by Nicholas Caldwell (Something Wicked, Something Wondrous)...

Well, it's probably very relative. I was just going by their drivethru publisher site (which is, I think, their only venue, so it should be representative), where the first 8 ICE bestsellers are Rolemaster, followed by one brand-new HARP book, then two RM again, then the HARP fantasy core book...

It's two years later, and I find myself eyeing HARP every few months. I still enjoy reading around in the core rules and in the Folkways supplement, and I really like chargen in HARP - it has all the right building blocks and offers flexibility without being overwhelming. I still wouldn't know...

That's actually something I could get behind!

Less to 2d6 (though I do think a bell curve feels more appropriate to Traveller than a more swingy one-die resolution mechanism). But the Lifepath generation that can produce meaningfully different levels of competence in multiple areas and the fact that in Traveller, there is very little...

Isn't modern D&D more like "everything except maybe the caster classes are fighters, and the fighter is the most badass fighter"? Usually they all can hold their own in an armed conflict, right in the thick of things. That's what I would call a fighter. So the non-fighter classes are basically...

I've been a fan of the Wormskin zine despite it being D&D, and now I've read through the Dolmenwood Player's Book and it's the first RPG that sells me on the virtues of Old School. I don't know what exactly it is - part of it is certainly making the x in d6 thing an overarching mechanism and...

After I've seen this, I totally want to play 3 Bards and one Barbarian!

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 ...