Recent content by Connallmac

The problem doesn't arise from hack 'n slash being badwrongfun, it comes from the failure of newer editions to present other styles of play.

This may be why the Saturday announcement at GenCon got nixxed. Perhaps they expected to have this deal done before then and then they had to kill their big news?

This is it exactly. I met up with a group online about six months ago. After a few emails back and forth, the GM invited myself and another potential player to meet for coffee. We sat and chatted for a good hour or so and got a feeling that this was a good fit. Bottom line is that if he is...

I disagree, neither style is badwrongfun. Both are equally valid approaches to RPGs, just be mature enough to realize that perhaps the two sides shouldn't play together, or perhaps they should find a different game that everyone in the group can enjoy. I used to play 3.5 with a group that had...

I respect that you don't like SW, but honestly if it takes two hours for your group to get through one combat, it must have been a huge battle with numerous combatants on both sides or your group must be doing something incorrectly. Last month I playtested the SWs game I will be running at...

This WAS what I wanted about two or so years ago, before I came to the Promised Land that is Savage Worlds. Now from a personal standpoint I really couldn't care less about what WotC does with 4.5 or 5e, I've got the game I want to play and run for my friends. It worries me that they may come...

I think one factor being over looked in pre-3E editions was that warrior classes at higher levels gain followers which certainly balances out the power of higher level wizards and clerics. Same thing for the rogue classes. 20th level fighters in 2E were supposed to come to battle at the head of...