Recent content by cbwjm

I go for a gnome more than others, and I tend to lean into the old lore about them being illusionists. But normally if I'm wanting to play something shorter than human, it'll be a dwarf, even though they're no longer small.

I think it's a great idea, and it takes away one of the main complaints about AI, that being the assets taken from anyone. If they're able to leverage AI to help make their game quicker, without losing quality, then I think that's a win.

How well did it retain things in memory? I've heard that's quite a limiting factor but that was quite long ago, I think chatgpt is better at retaining things in memory now, but maybe not small details that might be important for a player.

One thing I do like about art in an RPG (or other) book is that it can really help define the setting by having a consistent art style. Art from like Brom and DiTerlizzi helped define the settings of dark sun and planescape respectively, dolmenwood has an art style for much of its colour pages...

I'm the same, when it comes to maps which are too detailed, makes it feel like everything has been discovered. This is one of the things I recall people praising about the original Greyhawk, it had vast expanses of nothing that allow the DM to fill in the spaces instead. Mind you, I'm also...

My advice is to remember, and remind everyone, that it is much deadlier than later editions. If players are coming from 5e, it can be a bit of a shock. I lost 2 PCs in 3 sessions when my friends and I started playing. I do love it though, currently running dolmenwood for friends and we're all...

Watched this last night, I thought it was a fun movie. I loved how he use what he learned about the planet to take on the baddies.

I'm incredibly bad at organically integrating new PCs into a group so I tend to pretty much make them appear as well, sometimes just replacing NPCs with their new character or otherwise just going "This is Dave, he's part of the adventuring party now".

In one group I still ran if a single person was absent, maybe it was even if two were absent. If we got to 3 we would look at rescheduling. I think it was about 6 players in that group. With other groups, we've never had a set day/time to play so normally we'd try sorting out the next session...

I've been reading some Conan comics, the dark horse volumes as well as going back and reading some of the old marvel savage tales comics. It was interesting to read some of the letters or editorials in those magazines as I've known for sometime that Red Sonja was a creation for marvel comics not...

I've always meant to watch this, it looks like one of those fun over the top movies where you watch it for a bit of fun rather than an in depth plot.

I do the same with art and like to use it as a reference for my players to actually show them where they are or what they're encountering.

I'd love to play a pulp action game, It'd let me run games like it's the mummy/mummy returns or Indiana Jones or like books written by Jules Verne or Henry Rider Haggard or even the disney cartoon Talespin. Now I'd probably run it in savage worlds, but I remember back in the day wanting to use...

I bought a tablet primarily due to my shite eyesight and wanting something more portable than my PC to read PDFs when compared to my phone (which I still use but am constantly zooming and unzooming documents). I think large print options would be a good idea, when I have a book in front of me...

I don't think anyone I've ever played with even knows about enworld. There're a few on the boards I think would be cool to game with but far more I would definitely not want to play with when I consider past threads that have talked about play style and how they run games.