Recent content by Bluenose

Suddenly that popular argument that anti-magic areas make casters weak but the non-casters can carry on happily looks a lot less convincing when so much of the offensive potential comes from ,agic gear. I think I saw Wiah cast two or three times in two BECMI campaigns which reached level 25+...

See PF 2e. Balance issues or at least complaints there include the Wizard being seriously underpowered. Cue more than a few people deciding that simulationism and masses of options and lack of balance were only factors as long as the class they liked was high on the power-curve.

Was there much Elmore cover art? Caldwell and Easley, seem like they were by far the most prolific among the cover artists. I think there's two sorts of criticism that the Basic line gets. One is a transfer from the Mystara setting that people associate with those rules; people claim it's...

BECMI? No, I don't see much of Best Edition in 5e either.

Latest physical buy was Chaosium's new Age of Vikings. Fully self-contained and a decent read particularly if you're interested in Iceland which is their main region. I'm thinking I might run a game which incorporates a bit of Pendragon, over several generations as the "Viking" world declines...

Wrath & Glory: Threat Assessment - Xenos. Mongoose Traveller - Opening Moves and War Fleets of the Fifth Frontier War

London passed 2 million in the 1840s - the first city in the world to do so. Which required railways, canals and a large seaport to bring in food. A tenth of the population of the UK at the time, near enough. Bear in mind this is a city powered by coal by this time, not wood. And it was the...

Could someone explain to Ed Greenwood if no-one else wants to listen what 2 million people need in terms of food, water, firewood, cloth, and other necessities' and politely suggest that perhaps Waterdeep could be toned down to something more reasonable like 1/2 million or so. Not to mention the...

It wasn't Socrates, though it's often attributed to him. It's probably adapted from something Plato wrote and has been atrtibuted to Socrates later. Also, an older one. "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and...

No, there's plenty who want their favourite class to be superior. But I give an absolute guarantee based on observation (Pathfinder fans most recently) that no matter how much people say they don't care about balance or see any value in it, if the class they like playing comes out inferior in...

Agincourt is a fantastic example. 5,000 English/Welsh archers, issued with 30 arrows each. That's 150,000 arrows. They ran out in the course of the battle, so they're all loosed. And the French still get into melee combat. Add in, careful reading of historical records suggest around 5,000 French...

Because, demonstrably, before gunpowder, it was? It seems quite reasonable that fighting in a way that was more lethal would be, wel more lethal.

The Deep and the Dark, Aliens of Charted Space Volume 4, and Whispers on the Abyss. I don't know if it's just my FLGS, but Mongoose products seem to arrive in clumps - they also had the new Shield Maidens adventure book and something for Paranoia just in.

If a PC does something people remember and worship them for, I've always taken the view that in future campaigns they'll have a cult dedicated to them and be available to new PC Clerics. One of my players had a Cleric who worshipped one of his previous characters, and made up a whole religious...

Probably Classic Traveller in 1977. I still have the LBB, along with my original subsector map and the school workbook I wrote up the planets in. I'm not absolutely sure it was my second RPG - someone else I knew began a Tunnels & Trolls game around the same time and that might have come just...