Recent content by DammitVictor

No, but I sure wish there was. There's a ton of great  xianxia TV series on Netflix, so just grab one and imagine the setting's more Spelljammer or Dragonstar. Or pick up the Phantasy Star core rulebook and your favorite DM's Guild version of Dragon Fist or Tome of Battle.

My go-tos are pretty much always modern/urban xianxia and space xianxia, but D&D 2014/2024 is  really not my preferred system for modern settings. I'll admit to seeing what this dev team can do with a brand-new setting, and I'm open to just about anything as long as the new setting matches the...

Yeah, exactly this. The OT is full of these, the PT made them worse and invented new ones--prequels always do--but this show managed to unscrew a lot of pregnant lightbulbs. A rare example of a prequel not just being good, but making the preceding material better. I don't want to praise it too...

And then they will weep, for they will have no more envelopes left to push. Nerds destroy their own fun.

Yeah. And... like, those totally are tropes, but they're not the only tropes. They weren't even the only tropes when they were the ones Tolkien used for reasons in his work. They're not at all present in Narnia-- which would make a dooope D&D setting with the serial numbers filed off, like...

See and raise, @Richards: Caesar: hnnnn. NO! One of the sequels to the prequels. Doc Holliday: "I'm your huckleberry." Wanda Maximoff: "You took everything from me." Thanos: "I don't even know who you are." Wanda: "You will." Seriously, in a franchise that has all three of the good Hannibals...

Another fun one is that everyone has to have a different archetype of the same class.

edit: I'm sorry. This post was just... wow. "Not the best version of myself", indeed. I'd like to point out that I'm not being the best version of myself right now, I'm not in the habit of insulting people when I'm trying to convince them to agree with me or do them a favor. This is how I...

Big Dumb Campaign Ideas: Whole reason I started this thread? Had a dumb idea awhile back: "No Core" D&D. Rules are "simple": 3.PF. Third-party products allowed/encouraged, as long as they're 3.X or PF1 compatible, and subject to umpire's approval. No ancestries or base classes from the PHB or...

I was going to fight you on this; it sounds like he's describing using the DM, the table, and the game as props in his solo exercise. But you do have a point... if that's the game everyone is playing, they're competing/collaborating in that kind of gameplay, and the other players trying to act...

The Gestalt Characters variant rules were probably--don't @ me-- the most notorious and most long-lasting legacy of the 3.5 version of Unearthed Arcana. An admittedly and unabashedly high-power variant, they allowed players to combine two (or more, in some variant-variants) character classes at...

The process doesn't normally involve that much conflict. The name-calling comes into play when I talk about it on platforms like this one, or when someone is telling me why they have declined to apply to my game. I should probably note that this doesn't hurt my feelings; people being jerks about...

Yeah. I'm American, most of my family and in-laws are either American or Americanized immigrants... and a harvest feast dedicated to showing gratitude for the blessings of the land and the blessings of the community is very on-brand for our religion's ethos. The timing coincides with when we...

Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist, or maybe I just don't have any better hobbies, but I think these are solvable problems. Even on a cultural level, but especially on an individual table-by-table level. I've had some luck with my "house rules", and I've had some luck with Brown M&M*s in my online...

So it's a bad pitch that nobody wants to play, but they're going to join the game anyway and ruin it for the person who wants to run that game and the theoretical players that actually joined that game because they wanted to play that game? And  somehow that's supposed to make them less of an...