Recent content by Doctor Futurity

I do miss the old days of the PCs figuring out, "Oh crap, this dude has a -2 AC!!!"

While Conan is a great example of a weapon breaking for dramatic and story effect, the highlighted bit above immediately got me thinking about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, in which weapons do, indeed, break, often a couple times per fight. The result is a video game mentality where...

This might sound less helpful than I intend, but I have never run Pathfinder 2E in Golarion and always use my homebrews. If the players see something that is "Golarion focused" in the mechanics that they want, I ask them to help justify its existence in the campaign we are playing in and then...

AD&D 2E got me back into D&D in 1989 when it came out, iirc. My group was playing Runequest and Dragonquest (because that was what I, as GM, was in to at the time) and they begged me to take a look at the new edition. I then proceeded to run it pretty much weekly until 3rd edition came out, and...

I waffled on backing this because I haven't gotten nearly enough mileage out of the Revised book, but finally relented. Now, as with all Kickstarters, I must cross my fingers and hope I am still excited for it a year from now (I do love Cypher, so I probably will be).

I plan to run that scenario in the near future. One of my groups is totally into that sort of trope inversion stuff.

FYI, as someone who habitually buys starter sets for some reason, I rank their utility for new players as follows: 1. D&D Starter Set (Stormwrack Isle takes top spot, but I concede the new Heroes of the Borderlands looks like it may be an excellent bridge for really new players used to...

Arguably you would be right if they don't even try to provide an entry level starter set. But luckily they did. The question now is: who is buying it? I know I bought it for my collection (but I'm not a newb) but I will definitely buy this as a gift for my son and his gaming group. The...

I think what you are indicating is the inherent beauty and conundrum of this module. Keep on the Borderlands and the Caves of Chaos were open to inrepretation....true sandbox in design, with some stuff for players and DMs to interpret as they desire. As it happened, I was really, really into...

In defense of what Gygax wrote in 1981, I read that passage with the same gravitas and presumption of truth at age 10 that I did Howard's Conan tales or Lord of the Rings. So the idea that it was nuanced puffery was not on my radar at that age.

To wit: when I ran this module as a kid (it was the first D&D module I ever ran) the first group of PCs all died under the presumption that invading the caves and killing the monsters was the goal (and none of us saw any reason to assume otherwise from what we read in the book). The second group...

To draw from another property that came out around the time the original module did, it would be like watching a 2025 remake of Conan the Barbarian in which they sneak into Mount Doom and discover that Thulsa Doom and the cultists of Set were really running an animal refuge for reptiles, and the...

I much prefer my own homebrew campaigns, and always have, but I absolutely loved reading the Eberron fiction novels.

Shadows over Sol 2E???? Backed!!!!

Okay looks interesting I bought the Peter Hamilton novelization and now the two RPG books. Will talk about them when they arrive.