Recent content by Arakhor

The obvious choice for me is A Magical Mediaeval Society: Western Europe, which goes into great depth about how mediaeval society actually worked, with pointers on feudalism, inheritance, farming, the church and so on. Although nominally produced for 3rd Edition, the historical stuff is...

"Aliens with space blasters" make cameo appearances in the classic Might & Magic RPG franchise. Of course, by the time you get access to the alien parts of the games, you're facing off against dragons, demons, angels and titans, so you don't feel any more like an instant god amongst men than...

From what I remember, d20PFSRD has a whole bunch of alternate skill uses, both from Paizo and other 3P books. I have used those before.

Would you be interested in sharing any of this separately? I'm always interested in other people's rules ideas. :)

That imgur is very cute! I was walking home through my town's Goodwill evening last week and the gits were playing Last Christmas. It wasn't even December yet!

Wow. I got maybe two minutes into that video where she's patiently explaining that people should disregard the O in Don and pronounce it as "ah" (you know, rather than the same sound as lot or cot), and I'm suddenly realising how bonkers English must appear to non-native learners.

I have the (non-rhotic) Standard Southern British English accent, so cat, cot and caught are all different sounds to me, just like ant, aunt and August (for me, aunt is homophonic with aren't). Marry/merry, don/dawn, father/bother, pin/pen and so on are all dissimilar sounds too...

For what it's worth, I think conditions, being words you reference regularly, should be distinctive and have two or three syllables at most. By those metrics, Annoyed is shorter than Infuriated, but less distinctive, whereas Vexed is better in both regards.

The simpler way of calculating that bonus would be halving the bonus and adding 2 or 3 (your choice).

When I was a teenager, my favourite RPG books (all AD&D 2nd Edition) were Chronomancer, The Illithiad and Drow of the Underdark. They even came all the way to university and back, just so I could enjoy their presence in my room. In my 20s, I got into reading 3rd/4th edition GURPS splatbooks...

Reading what you wrote about the Halley's Comet analogue and the Cometborn Sorcerer etc., makes me think of a wandering prophet, who mysteriously appears and reappears each time the Harbinger arcs across the sky. Thus, I present: Xanthos Aster, Prophet of the Harbinger Xanthos is a tall...

I always assumed that the answer was rooted in Lord of the Rings. If you can forge a cool, magical ring, you're clearly a skilled artisan and living up to the power-fantasy of Tolkien's Ring-smiths.

Fighting Fantasy was great too, but Lone Wolf had just one character (with a second  much later on) played across 30 different books, all with a continuing narrative. I'm sure you'll love everyone's favourite Kai Lord. 😊

Doh, I have the Freeway Warrior books on my shelves and I still forgot about them when I wrote that post! Thanks, GreyLord. :) (By the way, if you haven't already, check out the new Definitive Editions of the LW gamebooks that Ben Dever, Joe's son, is producing over at Magnamund.com.)

Two fantasy writers pretty much defined my childhood - David Eddings, who did the Belgariad/Malloreon and the Elenium/Tamuli, and Joe Dever, who wrote the Lone Wolf gamebooks. Dever only wrote one franchise and I even met him once, as opposed to Eddings, who wrote multiple franchises and turned...