Recent content by Dykstrav

Not at all! People can play the trenchcoat katana guy and the facepaint guy all they want. Ignore the Humanity rules. Have huge kung fu gunfights in downtown Vancouver with hand grenades, whatever. If the players keep coming back, more power to them. It's not a values judgment or anything. I...

That's fair, and I fully agree. I've also seen lots of WoD chronicles that are pretty much dungeon-crawling D&D campaigns or action/comedy movies with different costumes. It's not the sort of game that I enjoy but I've seen it enough that it doesn't surprise me any more.

I see where you're going. I just haven't experienced it uniquely in Wraith as opposed to other RPGs. D&D has the "you're all in a tavern" cliché, for sure. The only real stock reason for a bunch of ghosts to be together is they all haunt the same location. If the players don't have a preference...

Wraith 20's Handbook for the Recently Deceased may be exactly what you're looking for. It would've been nice to have it in 1995 or so, but it's been a great resource for me in getting new Wraith players up-to-speed. A new version of the game could use it as a solid model for introductions. That...

A little back-of-the-envelope math reveals that Pathfinder doesn't push out nearly the amount of hardcovers that 3E/3.5 did. A quick glance at my own bookshelf reveals ninety-seven 3E/3.5 hardcovers published over approximately eight years and twenty Pathfinder hardcovers published to date. If...

5 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook Pathfinder is extremely good at what it does, but it's not every game for every group (nor does it try to be). The Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook is comprehensive. The character creation options are detailed enough to create nearly any...

Howdy GalanDur! I did some work for a d20 Modern version of it a few years ago. It's in that nebulous half-finished state that many dropped RPG projects are, but I do recall that I have the STARS team statted out from the first game and at least notes on what several other characters should be...

Count me amongst those who want some Greyhawk... But then again, maybe not. I was glad that there was no 4E Greyhawk after seeing what happened to the Forgotten Realms setting. I've been able to get by with my older Greyhawk material in the Pathfinder era. Still, it'd be nice to get some things...

Inspired by this thread, I started counting my books a few minutes ago. I stopped counting the second time I lost track. It was over seven hundred then and I had just finished with the official D&D stuff and started moving into the third party publishers. (I hadn't even started on the non-D&D...

Howdy! I'm new to Marietta and looking for a group. I'm ideally interested in Pathfinder, but I'll consider various editions of D&D. I might also be interested in a game set in the classic World of Darkness (Wraith, Vampire, or Mage), but the group really has to be right for those games...

I'm a Pathfinder fan. Going to start a new campaign in about two weeks and I can't wait!

Yeah, there'll be varieties of humans. Here's a brief idea of what I'm talking about: the different nationalities of humans that I've worked up so far.

After several months of steady freelance work, I'm taking a bit of time to work on the ol' homebrew again. I keep returning to an issue that I've ran into with D&D settings over the years. In short, I'd like to make a setting where humans were the only race available as a PC option--no elves...