Recent content by DammitVictor

Dammit, the bug bit me again; I'm using Skills & Powers and Spells & Magic to reclass AD&D 1e/2e along those lines. Most of the classes I use are upgunned compared to their core counterparts. This is intentional. Warriors are the easiest class group to differentiate, then Mages and Priests...

I'd argue that 1e supplements generally dragged it down, and core 2e mostly included those parts-- so either core or "full" 1e to core 2e was a downgrade-- but the expansions and add-ons are what made AD&D 2e my favorite D&D edition and favorite game, period. Core 2e was just 1e with the worst...

Ironically, elves in my settings-- when I include elves in my settings-- aren't even humanoid, much less human. In Cosmic Rangers, the "Feywild" and the "Far Realms" are... both a spectrum and a matter of perspective... and the alufey are actually quite a lot closer to the aberration end of the...

Not going to touch D&D. Too complicated, too emotionally laden. Shadowrun 1e -> 2e -> 3e are straight upgrades. I think the mechanical changes between 3e -> 4e are mostly positive, but I definitely prefer the 2050s to the 2070s as a setting. On the other hand, the 4e system is a lot more...

Ooooh, that's a neat trick. Yeah, that's been a major gripe of mine, dating back to the 3.5 era. I didn't really notice in AD&D or 3.0, but with the more complicated class system, and looking back at Classic D&D with race-as-class, it started to stand out more. My frustrating with this has...

I move too often to have owned anything for forty years. Most of my computer hardware is 5-6 years old. My sidearm was manufactured in the 1980s, but I bought it ten years ago; my car's a 2001 model, but I bought it four years ago. Been using the same wheelchair for six years.

I try very hard the first time. I don't try as hard the second time. If I run a game for a third time, I'm taking some liberties.

You know, when I homebrew a world for a campaign, the ancestries I allow aren't just a list of things I think are cool. I design the world around my whitelists and blacklists. They have cultures, and territories, and allies and enemies. If a common element is absent, I've planned around its...

In response to this thread, and a little bit of the Evolution thread. D&D24 has ten ancestries, including tiefling and aasimar. D&D14 has nine, including half-elf and half-orc. Level Up has eight, not including any of the above as separate races. So... you're writing the next PHB. It's your...

Just did a quick multiplayer run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate. I played Metalhead, using Light/Utrom to play as more-or-less a support debuffer; anyone I shot had a few seconds of Guard Break, Electrified, and Guiding Light... dealing less damage and taking more damage.

I had a player pull that on me once-- his PC was amnesiac and being hunted by enemies from his past-- so I rolled with it, tied his enemies into the story the other PCs were pursuing and the game ended. Good DM, right? Started a new campaign, he did it again. So I rolled with it again, only I...

I don't have enough expertise/experience on the topic to have an opinion worth sharing; PF2 seems more complicated to me, quite possibly because I'm already intimately familiar with PF1 and the PF2 rulebooks are just... impenetrable to me. Thank you for this. I've got a full playset of PF2, and...

Yeah, it's gross. The sort of restrictions we're discussing are... on the level of house rules. They should be clear and up front before the in-character portion of the game starts, and they shouldn't change unless there's a massive problem at the table. I'm not going to call it "entitled"...

Sure. It's always a conversation. But sometimes, that conversation ends in a compromise, and sometimes that conversation ends in a "no". I like working with players to help them get the most out of the game, but I put a lot of work into preparing my games and when I say something isn't on the...

And I'm frankly astounded that there are multiple people in this thread that think that's something a DM needs to outgrow. I enjoy player-driven and collaborative worldbuilding exercises, but the person responsible for providing the game world isn't allowed to decide what they put into it...