Recent content by Edgar Ironpelt

It's completely understandable that if you don't like the genre, you won't like the genre as a TTRPG. (For me: Horror. I don't like horror as a genre in general, and if you want to run a horror RPG, then sorry, I can't make it. I have to vacuum the cat.) I also can understand liking the genre...

You might not want to use the system, but I'll suggest GURPS: Camelot, even if you just want background material, including notes on three different variants of "Arthurian fantasy." SJG still sells it as a PDF: GURPS Camelot

I would have said "The Fantasy Trip," except 1. That's already happened, and 2. I find I don't like any of the changes made in the new 'Legacy' edition. So I suppose my wish would be for the older 'Classic' edition to be reprinted, at least as a PDF.

That's a major point where I differ from you. I do want "being a PC" to be an exception in my game. I want PCs (along with certain select NPCs) to be "destined for greatness" with their success being baked in, rather than having them run the simulationist gauntlet to see whether or not they win...

It's also possible to have a mix where some of the lands in the setting have that segregation while others are more cosmopolitan. Also, unless you have easy interfertility in the setting, there's going to be pressure for at least some clumping of the different racial communities. (And if there...

"Slow advancement" has been mentioned earlier. My preferred xp award system, not just for 3.5e but also for other games that use experience points, is for end-of-session awards rather than "so many xp for defeating the orcs, so many xp for getting past the trap, so many xp for boiling the...

My experience is that it's important to be up-front about what is and isn't allowed in a given game. I'll write a campaign prospectus for a game I plan to run. If the deal is "no prestige classes" or "these travel/movement spells don't exist" then players who sign on for the game can accept...

snip It might work for my group, but I've got an "not broke; don't fix it" situation. I'd add that the idea might not work out for DMs who have a strong "challenge the PCs; make them feel like underdogs" aspect to their style. My own, it-works-for-me style is to hand out flat XP awards at...

I'm an old fan of The Fantasy Trip. I made (unsuccessful) attempts to incorporate Melee and Wizard in my games prior to ITL coming out, and when ITL did come out I immediately switched over to TFT for my main game (my Etan campaign). I'm also an old rebel against the Old School Style, going...

As usual I have to ask "Which of my fantasy worlds?" In my Etan game, humans are the majority race/species, following common TTRPG standard, and with the differences with the other races downplayed. In my Brotherhood of Rangers game, the various non-human D&D races are well-represented. In...

In Tolkien, the other reason for humans becoming dominant is that Fate Said So. In the third and fourth ages, the other races were Doomed to decline and disappear from Middle Earth. Eru Iluvatar Willed It.

Leveling up and progress is necessary only if you start at first/low level, where a primary concern is getting up to the Levels That Don't Suck[1]. If you start at high level, progression can be very-slow-to-non-existent. In my experience, combat is optional in theory but required for a good...

Technically it's wands of cure light wounds (I run 3.5e) but in previous editions, and in my TFT based game that uses healing potions as pretty much the sole source of magic healing, I gave them out with a free hand. I don't fight the player desire/insistence on being at full hp at the start...

An alternative interpretation of the term "medieval aliens" is where the native extraterrestrials are medieval with starfaring humans visiting their planet. GURPS (of course) did at least one gaming supplement: GURPS Planet Krishna, based on stories by L Sprague de Camp.

I remember reading the short-story version in Analog and liking it - in part because it lacked a 1340s storyline. It was just the future timeline where "Aliens crash-landed in 1340s Germany, died and were buried there, and we're just now (re)discovering this." When the expanded novelized version...