Recent content by Dannyalcatraz

Well, hopefully someone making a better movie will do an homage to it. I know things like that happen. Unfortunately, homages like that are usually to something already better than average. I’m thinking the Venn diagram overlap between fans of this joke and quality filmmakers/TV producers is...

One of my longest & most complicated backstories was for 3.5Ed campaign that was starting with 10th level PCs. First, I asked the DM if the god Thoth (or equivalent) existed in the setting. He said Thoth existed. I then created a multiclassed PC who was mechanically for all intents & purposes...

Oh, I absolutely agree that it isn’t funny enough to save the film. But I absolutely respect what it took to get that joke to the screen, regardless of the blecch in the middle. Somebody didn’t mail it in.

Depends on the setting & the PC. I once ran a 1st level ranger whose origins were based on a sub-Saharan African tribe’s culture. In that tribe, a young man’s passage into adulthood involved hunting & killing a lion. Until he did so, he was just a boy in the eyes of his people. So, by...

I’ve seen this movie, and it’s…not good. But I like one particular thing about it. In the early stages of the movie, the protagonists stop at a rural gas station/convenience store run by a stereotypical bearded old white shopkeeper. One of the main characters notices a rifle on the wall over...

Hmmm. I liked 1st & 2nd, but passed in 3rd for reasons I don’t recall. I’ll eventually have to give this a peek.

Tangent: in one campaign, the original party was composed of a human wizard who favored cold/ice spells and a bunch of dwarves. More than once it seemed like a bizarro version of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves. But eventually, we had a couple new players join the group, and one guy played...

There was a heavy metal bar I used to frequent in Austin that had 2 bouncers. The one you always saw was 6’ tall, over 300lbs, and had a Mohawk he’d dye various colors. His mere presence stopped a lot of fights from erupting. He also did his share of physically yeeting the unruly out of the...

OTOH, I’m actually 5’7. At my peak fitness level, I was 193 lbs and kinda slabby. (My 0% body fat weight was calculated as 173lbs, more than 30lbs off the height/weight charts for my stature.) Bench: 300lbs. Leg Press: multiple 10 rep sets at 700lbs. And apparently, there’s a face I make...

The fact is that the company who owned or commissioned the winning products in all but 4 categories also owned the magazines & convention, etc. While the products may actually be deserving and the employees honest, the wholesale lack of contemporaneous accolades from competitors or neutral...

Confession: I do this occasionally, but not often. And when I do, I take pains to make the character fit nonetheless, so that the burden ISN’T solely on the GM. Example: I was part of a playtest for GURPS: Vampire the Masquerade. My character was a Brujah (the monstrously strong & fast clan)...

This is a trippy set of short vids dealing with the Japanese language: https://imgur.com/gallery/real-real-japan-dump-lVcWMDF

The Fantasy Trip/In the Labyrinth grew out of the Melee and Wizard boardgames. It was kind of a precursor to GURPS. ChaGen is simple- 5-10 minutes tops- and play is simpler. It’s one of the first real “beer & pretzels”/rules light FRPGs out there. Chaosium used its system to create games...

That sounds like a blast! I’ve enjoyed every similar kind of campaign like that, even though they always seem to be short-lived. IME, the best campaigns often do. I can relate to both sides of this. I really prefer having some fantastical aspect for PCs in FRPGs. I’d say that 85% or more of...