Recent content by Black Dougal

I started with BX/AD&D and my 2nd rpg was Gamma World.

Mysteries of the Moonsea is a 1-10 campaign if I recall.

Vestiges of Divergence: Evolving artifacts (Dormant → Awakened → Exalted) tied to character milestones which is an easy way to create signature items. Heroic Chronicle: Tables that link PCs to regions and factions, generating allies/rivals and instant plot hooks. Dunamancy...

That Captain Kirk destroyed the Death Star with the USS Enterprise. ;)

Very cool. I'm mainly a forever DM but just emailed the link to my players.

1. Why My players and I enjoy it. 2. How do you approach the setting (everything is in, stick to one edition, gray box only etc.)? We have been playing here since 1987. It's some sort of Grey box with 30+ years of homebrew lore and history at this point. 3. How long has it been your campaign...

I could see it going that direction. The sunset sky colors are almost exactly the same. Interesting.

I gave it a 5. Considering it's just some tweaks for 5e it didn't really move the needle for me and most of my players. Similar to 3.5. It's great that they made some adjustments but I felt the cost more than I felt the improvements/tweaks.

51 here going on 7

Accomplishments require Vangelis...

Good stuff, highly recommend.

There's a very thin line between 1% naive and positive and optimistic ;)

That does not sound fun at all...those malcontent gophers. ;)

You can access some of their past pdfs for free to get a general idea of the vibe. http://talislanta.com/talislanta-library Yes, it's incredibly diverse ... intentionally alien and not Eurocentric. Talislanta was designed specifically to break from Tolkien/D&D norms, no elves, dwarves, or...