Recent content by Celebrim

Regional where? In the Midwest they tend to be corned beef and cabbage, and in some parts of the Midwest that cabbage is sauerkraut, but I've never heard a pork and sauerkraut. Are you back in the "old country" or are you in a place old enough that it retained the old country traditions...

Well, seeing as my usual teams are flops this year, better an SEC team win than anyone else.

That's some mighty fine looking eats. I'll be eating something similar tomorrow. Usually, we end up making a Hoppin' John or a Jollop Rice because my family (well one side of it) is Cajun and also "Geuax Tigers!" but I think we'll probably just go back to basics this year.

One of the hardest things about being a superhero is one of the things they almost never worry about - being at the right place at the right time to actually do good with a power set that is heavily focused on "beats people up good". The truth is if you were just doing the Batman thing and...

Obligatory request for you in 2026 to get the Tortall license and publish a Tortall sourcebook for knightly adventures using the Pendragon rules adapted to the different culture. Please take my money.

I would truly love more discussion of this because I've tried to read the rules and they make my eyes just glass over. Something about the presentation just turns me off at every level, and yet I'm not fully happy with WEG D6 and would be interested in looking at other rule sets or at least...

Just fully leaning into the space trucker vibe.

More precisely, the problem is that most ship related skills are merely pass/fail maintenance of the ship that only involve dice-rolling when abstracted but offer no interesting decisions to the player. Even getting past the question of in a cooperative game is the dominate personality allowing...

It's got about 5 good episodes - the first 3 of the first season and the last 2 of the second season. It's got maybe three other episodes that are watchable. Beyond that, it might as well be Book of Boba Fett or Obi Wan Kenobi. It would perhaps capture the idea I'm going for here to say it...

The general rule in the game is that ships normally jump one planetary diameter away from the planet in order to minimize the turbulence that hyperspace experiences in the presence of real space gravity. Systems with complex moon or ring systems often have correspondingly more hyperspace...

This is a problem in my experience with every single Sci Fi RPG in one way or the other. The solution in my opinion actually draws inspiration from Delany's "Babel 17" of all places where he has each ship crew position actually have an off-ship skills that correlates to ship skill at a...

This does create weirdness though. Typical Star Wars space travel involves a ship leaving the planet's surface and getting a few thousand miles away from the planet to reduce the mass shadow of the planet while calculating a jump to hyperspace. Normally this takes 3-30 minutes depending on...

Facetiously, I need them to publish things that I would like rather than things that would sell for a profit. More seriously, I need RPG publishers to actually put in some hard work rather than doing all the easy stuff and then leaving me to do all the hard work. So many publishers out there...

I will say that working up how everyone knows each other works best for less mature players but I by no means agree that intraparty RP or banter is in any way wasted. In fact, as a GM, sitting back and watching good well done intraparty RP is one of my favorite things. The transcript of play...

It is desirable to establish connections between characters, but you can come up with scenarios that don't require that. Disasters are a big one. Another is to have them all be friends and acquaintances of some NPC who knows them even if they don't yet know each other that well, and have that...