Recent content by el-remmen

Yes. They were surprisingly more explicitly political than I thought they would be without being direct allegory (which is personally a draw for me).

I am just concerned that with all the skill bonuses, situational stuff, achievements, gear, that actual play will feel a little too crunchy fiddly, which is great when you have an AI + HUD to handle it all, but not so great during tabletop play. But gonna have to see it in action.

They definitely get better, which is not to say you should slog through if you detest the first one, but I was kinda ambivalent after the first one but got sucked in by the second. However, all that being said, I think the audio book version is better than the print book.

I didn't scroll down far enough the first time! Thanks! I am still on the fence, tho. If I for certain had people to play with I would probably wouldn't hesitate as much - but leaning card game over RPG at this point.

I am very curious about these games (probably the card game more, since I find it hard to imagine running the RPG as it plays in the novels), but until there is more specific info about how they both work, I am not willing to lay out the bucks. Hopefully, I will get a chance to pick up both or...

I've decided that since I once played RPGs with a really weaselly and unreasonable dude who did their best to exploit every rule and paid no attention to setting or genre, I am going to rewrite all my house rules to specifically address that kind of player and never give any player even an inch...

As I said, I do think he was trying to be an ally, and maybe he was resisting the presumption that all characters are heterosexual (and the fact that he had several queer folks in his groups bears this out). But as someone who had already been playing queer characters and with queer folks for...

Back in college in the mid-90s, one of the other local DMs (who I never actually played with) made all PCs, based on the statistic that 10% of the population has some form of same-sex attraction, roll a D10. If you rolled a 1, you were gay (he might have later switched to a table based on the...

I printed out the 157 double sided pages of my 5E homebrew hack, triple checking everything before I hit "send." The page numbering and layout was mucked up somehow anyway so that pages that are supposed to be two-page spreads were on opposite sides of the same sheets and the numbers appeared...

In the homebrew 5e I’ve been working on I control ability scores by 1. Limiting ability scores to 18 max (until 6th level - my rules hacks levels down to just 10, so that is halfway through a campaign) 2. Using a stat draft array that makes sure no one can have an 18 to start without using...

We must imagine Sisyphus actually plays RPGs.

Here is a complete very very rough draft PDF of the VF5E PHB. It is kinda huge. It will only be available for brief time - but I know some who follow this thread might want to grab it.

“You’re still young / that’s your fault / there’s so much you have to know”

That's what I think all future editions of D&D should be like, personally - though it doesn't have to have B/X as a base, necessarily.

I thought they looked like Sleestaks. But on another look, only the one with the crest is really close.