Recent content by cbwjm

I guess all of these people had to start somewhere, I think I just have a set decade where I know them from and so get surprised when I see them (or hear about them being in) something from before that time.

Wait, what? Liam Neeson was in Krull?! I guess I haven't seen the movie since the 80s/90s so there's no reason I should remember, but I had no idea.

Sometimes, the faeries might be kind and invite you to stay for a celebration and when you return, you discover what felt like 2 days ends up being 2 centuries and everyone you know is dead, or you die as soon as return to the mortal world. In one story a king and and his retinue visit a fairy...

After rewatching Jurrassic Park, I ended up watching the rest of the series, moving through Jurassic World all the way up to Rebirth. Then I resubbed to netflix because I discovered there were 3 whole seasons of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory that I had missed out on. That series was great, filled...

I think it might be different in 2e, but looking at raise dead and resurrection in 1e, looks like the latter doesn't work on elves either.

The cat fae has a fun bit with its language, regular cats can understand and speak it and they are quite surprised when they find out. That's one of those small details which makes the game fun.

Dolmenwood sounds very whimsical with fairies and such and I guess a lot of it could play like that, but as I read through the campaign book, I realised just how dark the setting is. It should be easy enough to run in other systems, especially if you don't worry too much about the classes...

I think I'd probably like to go back to the 3e saves of fort, ref, will but use the best of 2 stats of 4e. I'd also align the subclass levels. Part of me would want to put more emphasis on the subclass with 5-6 levels being the subclass, starting with level one and the class more of a skeleton...

This seems a little weird, I'm not sure AI works as a replacement for focus groups or play testing, I assume, toys and games and things. Imagine making a toy for 6 year olds and then wondering why they don't like it when the AI liked it.

I think it may have been more the perpetually online players who participated in build analysis that ruined the game. Most players that didn't spend a lot of time in optimisation forums trying to perfect a build played 3e without causing any issues.

I know that many people think CEO's are evil, but this sounds like the Hasbro CEO has moved into supervillain territory.

Something else I like from the conan rpg which I'd probably import into 3e is how it did favoured classes (something I typically ignored in 3e, if you wanted to be an elf fighter with just 2 levels of cleric, I didn't impose an xp penalty). In conan d20, instead of an xp penalty if you had...

I've been looking back at the Conan d20 game, I think it has some things I'd bring into 3e if I went back to it. The way they handled skills was that there wasn't a cap on your cross-class skills, they could go as high as your class skills. If you spent your class skill points on them, they'd...

The 2e complete barbarian may solve a lot of issues, seems like it got moved to the ranger/paladin xp track, still retains many of the abilities of the 1e barbarian while losing the class restrictions. Not all abilities are there though, no horde ability in the class write up and it might be...

Yeah, from what little I recall about the 1e barbarian the xp requirement and penalties really leads to it needing a rewrite. It also ignored the standard ability modifiers for Dex and Con which further complicates the class.