Recent content by AnotherGuy

Oh these kinds of discussions bring about all sorts of inspiration for roleplaying content to be explored in future sessions. :)

It comes down to preferences and anthologies are tricky to do, as it is, not that WotC got it right every time with epic AP's either. I will give my limited perspective on things and it is limited because I have not had the luxury of acquiring all the new material. I purchased DiA and I was...

That's what I suggested under the mixed-race subheadings - purely roleplaying and physical descriptions, not mechanics.

That is a different conversation (for us). I like @DEFCON 1's approach somewhere upthread where they mentioned one can pick two human traits and two elven traits and there you go. Personally I think a write-up would also be nice on the half-races in general where ideas could be presented on...

It would be interesting to flip the script on my PCs and have the elves on the last minute quietly pull out from the Council of Waterdeep which was formed to deal with the Cult of the Dragon issue on the grounds that the elves would like to give the problem some time to resolve itself. Besides...

If in ones own personal fantasy world, the half-elves reach population/community proportions then they are indeed their own people and not an exception like Tanis or Spock, then I agree one could compare them to a people of earth. Where though they are a rare breed, and have not reached...

I really enjoy the concept and what you can do with it - post apocalyptic so struggling for resources, feral slightly larger animals, The Call, the redemption arc with your character's trauma, dealing with religious nuttery as people try to make sense of what has happened, the ability to pull...

White Wolf Fae / Summerland - this one works if you imagine Summerland would be the creation of a Great Unleashing event. For those that do not know the RPG Summerland, the concept is similar in a way to the movie The Happening. Trees suddenly grow overnight and encroach onto civilisation...

I think that is not a logical comparison and ignores part of @MGibster's post. Do you imagine half-elves are a people with their own communities in your fantasy world or are they uncommon/rare individuals that fit within the fabric of society they live in i.e. different but same. They certainly...

Whether it be an hour within any of the movies or the middle movie as a stand alone...it's a story. They way I see RPGS bring played out is that the story is being created via play at the same time as play. The story for me is a large part of what makes RPGS different to boardgames. The way its...

I literally said this on page 2 of the thread regarding watching the middle of LotR...and asking if that was not a story on its own... The response I got was that LotR existed in its entirety so...

Conversely what if it is a session with no rolls but purely social roleplay and decison-making, Maybe the die is rolled a handful of times...do you consider that session @Reynard an exercise in story-making?

Well this can happen in D&D with your basic hit roll but you do not necessarily have the entire table's input. In D&D other players may offer input or suggestions but at the end of the day the DM and specific player likely have the biggest vote on what the hit roll means in the fiction. As I see it.

Well...if you want to change goal posts sure. We play to find out, but when the GM comes up with an adventure (AP or otherwise), there is a story there. Severin's understanding of the prophecy was different to Sammaster's and so he reforged the Cult of Dragon with a new purpose. His prayers...

Two scenarios. 1. Character died. 2. Character saved via Clone spell which had been prepared Halaster who kept the character as prisoner and as a form of entertainment. [Adventure - Death - Clone - Adventure - Death - Clone...etc] 3(a) GM came up with a challenge for the character to escape...