Recent content by Bayushi_seikuro

That's good. Sounds like when they used to have Talks Machina back in the day.

"Stop the Seventh Order zealot", and "Traveller evaporated by mining beam" Traveller. The Seventh Order are an order of technopriests and cyborgs who joined our fleet fleeing Tinath. Their leader was uploading a virus to force humans in cryostasis into a Nexus - basically the Matrix.

That's what I remembered too - even though she started with the circus, Yasha was coming and going pretty often. I did notice a couple quick shots in the trailer of barbarians (about 1:26)- I mean, like two seconds at best - that may be Yasha's people who were living in the Dynasty.

I don't know. I haven't listened to the early C2 episodes in awhile, but the way I remember it, Yasha was tied more to the carnival specifically than Molly was, largely to do with Ashley being involved with Blindspot. I remember Yasha being largely set up originally as just the person who set...

What I want to see are the kithkin and how they'd work thoughtweft - "a collective, empathic consciousness unique to the Kithkin race, a halfling-like people known for their community and cooperation. This thoughtweft enables effortless communication, shared emotions, and coordinated action...

I agree. One mechanic I thoroughly enjoyed was having a blank world map and a list of sites/locations for the players and GM to place on the map. It might also be the first system I experienced where you built the characters together, out of the same point pool.

The best I remember was a 1e Seventh Sea campaign. It was a combination of their setting with the old cartoon show Pirates of Dark Water. I was a pirate from Avalon (English), who was also a member of the Merchants Guild - so when we weren't robbing ships, we were delivering cargo and...

My favorite take on orcs is still Orkworld by John Wick. It began when he was still at AEG and was going to play in the company D&D game and wanted to be an ork bard. He was told 'You can't. Orcs are evil and are just speedbumps on the way to the bad guy'. He said, if I can write you...

My reluctance with Eberron came from primarily being overwhelmed by the setting. I run into that issue with a lot of settings. What it took to get over was having a friend who really loved the setting explain that it does so much, you really need to decide what kind of story you want to tell...

Looking back, I think what I feel was... 'bad' is subjective, but I'd say hurt with UA, was the character creation variant, where, let's say, a Fighter would roll 10d6 keeping the highest three for Strength, etc. I grew up with the old basic '3d6 in order', so UA allowed for some 'unnaturally'...

I think Toril is interesting that, even in a world of 'known' deities and pantheons, some people continue to not be Believers, or maybe just donate when they need a special favor - the old Grey Box talked about it, even how people would sacrifice to Umberlee to avert her wrath before a voyage.

Having grown up with the old Gold Box games, I have a soft-spot for the Dalelands and Moonsea. I'd enjoy a Cormyr book, but I'm used to them being more of an offscreen Good Guy kingdom that was squeezing the Dales from one side while the Zhents were an Evil Theocracy squeezing them from the...

I don't get the sense they've abandoned it - in fact, I'd say this set up, where Matt can play D&D, frees him up to work more on Daggerheart. And from where I sit, I always got the sense Daggerheart and Obscura were born of the same time as the OGL debacle, where suddenly every company had a...

For me, like any other genre, it takes many things. I just got home from work and it's late so I'll just give a couple examples I personally like: 1) the old Marvel FASERIP system. I don't think it worked as well as intended, but one thing they had that made it 'feel Marvel' was the Karma...