Recent content by Baba

I’m a bit annoyed that I have to log in to answer the survey, and that there is nothing about privacy in the FAQ. I like Wizards and their product, want them to succeed, and would like to spend my time giving them feedback for free, and they are just about the only company I am willing to do...

If you think you’ll enjoy something older, I remember liking the series of Sjöwall/Wahlöö adaptions with Gösta Ekman. This is the first one: Roseanna (Video 1993) - IMDb I only saw the first season of the Bridge (swedish/danish version), but I enjoyed that. There are tons of different...

Fun idea! Here’s a posibility: Maybe there are spirits everywhere, in streams and trees and so on, and all humans were once spirits who chose to be born as humans. Everyone wants great descendants who will do good for their family, so they seek out spirits with qualities they admire, and try...

I like player narration like this! I am not to fond of very involved economy systems, though. Everything in the player list sounds fun. I like when my players do stuff like this, but we do it with two key differences: They can do it whenever they want, without points, and it is subject to dm...

Pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if these could in turn have been inspired by divers with airhoses. They too would enter a strange, alien world, tethered to their home only by a cord, and if that cord was broken, they would be lost.

It seems to me that Shuback claims that: 1 "tefillin" is the best term to use when talking about tefillin, and 2 "phylactery" comes from an ancient greek term for magical amulets, and is not the best term to use when talking about tefillin I have not read "Tangled up in text", but I read this...

Personally, I’m very fond of Itras By. I don’t think my character ever killed anything in our first, 26 session campaign.

This pattern. I know it. The Harbinger of the New Wine will say: Look! This is the New Wine! You may have tasted wine before, but never like this - this is a taste and a smell that was just recently born, and it is wondrous and fresh and worthy of admiration! There’s nothing wrong with that...

I’ve been thinking that too: They decided not to limit player choice, and let that decision inform the world building. Also, I guess they wanted to make it easy to pop Thylea into existing worlds. My players decided to play three humans and a dryad, and I changed some of the npc’s a bit, so in...

I’ve run Dragonlords, and liked it a lot - but I couldn’t help thinking it would have been even better with even more of a greek mythological feel and less of a standard d&d-fantasy feel. Less focus on dragons, for example. I’ll hope for the same thing with this one - that they’ll go VERY norse...

One of the things I like about the Illiad, is that it is a story with superheroes in lethal conflict WITHOUT a good-guy-side and a bad-guy-side. Sure, there are some big jerks there - but no side in the war represents Evil. I’m very wary about ascribing real world problems to fiction - to much...

Warduke’s mother dipped him in the river Styx when he was an infant, but she held him by his left leg and left arm.

I would montage some of the traveling, with way less dice rolling. The characters can still spend days and weeks between the major stops, but for your players, a couple of encounters and some brief descriptions might be quite enough. And I would look for some smart choices for the npc group...

Twenty years ago I would find it fun as long as the game was good. Today I still find it fun, but only if I know I am actually going to play it. If I am not going to play, most often I won’t bother.

I’ve seldom loved a campaign as much as the one we’ve been running in Pendragon for the last five years. One of the main draws for me is the generational play. We only have one big adventure a year, and time flows quickly. We are currently in our fiftyfourth campaign year, playing the grandsons...