Recent content by Erstwhile

As always, a tough question. :) And this will absolutely show my age. In no particular order: 1) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1stEd. Were I to run WFRP today it'd be a hybrid of 1st and 2nd Ed, but 1stEd is still one of my favourite books ever. 2) D&D Rules Cyclopedia. 3) Fading Suns...

Part of it was also that most of us learned from other people, and quite often there was a "core" of gamers who'd bring the majority of people in a given area into the game. (I grew up in a small town, so it might be different in the big city, but University game clubs, local gaming clubs in...

This idea just drips Awesome. I have thus far resisted WoW, Guild Wars, EverQuest, etc. But a Planescape MMORPG - that, I could not resist. In MY tangential reality, someone has invented a Planescape MMORPG and I am playing it RIGHT NOW.

Speaking for myself, I did keep the Truenames and Ceremonial Feats in the Urak campaign I described above - they're certainly not part of Lords of Magic but I like them, and basically tweaked them a bit so that ceremonial Feats were gained as part of worship of a Faith. For instance, while the...

Well, all righty then. :) I was considering starting a new thread but since Cam had asked for specifics I'll leave it here for now...if anyone is really interested in this stuff, PM me and I can e-mail what I have. The game takes place after the video game "campaign" is complete; the Deathlord...

To answer the OP, I'm currently running a game via Gametable. We're using Arcana Evolved for the ruleset, but it's set in the world of Urak, from the old video game Lords of Magic. It's based around eight Faiths that are admittedly very cliched - air, earth, fire, water, life, death, order...

Threshold, man. Yeah, yeah, there's some Grand Duchy of Karawhatever and the Black Eagle something-or-other to the south, but for me Expert D&D was all about Threshold.

Golden retrievers and the labrador breeds are similar temperments, I think, in that they tend to be very sweet-tempered (retrievers especially). Though those breeds are a bit more energetic than a Newfoundland I think and don't have the rescue instinct - though they tend to love water. I...

Okay, so...for ease of reference: 1. The aforementioned Rufus and Burne... 2. Elric of Melnibone (which I must admit is funnier when you leave the accent off the final "e") 3. Lightning zombies (D&D)...fabulous! 4. Wraeththu (from, well...Wraeththu) 5. Gotrek and Felix (WFRP) 6...

Ah yes, I was trying to remember what PPDM stood for. And now I'm thinking of papadum, and am hungry for Indian food. Curse you, McMurray!

A bit of overkill, perhaps, but along the lines of "hell is full", Clerics of Good alignment may find that the "cosmic balance" is out of whack and therefore their Turning abilities no longer work at all - against any undead. Which could of course lead to an Epic Quest (TM) to right the world...

One tabletop group (HarnMaster), one online group using GameTable and Ventrilo (Arcana Evolved), one Play-by-post group (Mutants & Masterminds). Assuming those all count as "groups", that's three, so I can't answer the poll! :p As far as tabletop gaming goes, I don't think I've ever had more...

I downloaded the free PDF, but it had no impact on my buying habits, as I already had the dead tree edition as well as several supplements (for 4th as well as earlier editions). But having it in PDF form as well is a definite plus - as an example, I was able to compile a short "player's manual"...

Well, here's a range of 'em, from the blasphemous to the tame... ;) Rust and ruin! Moradin's balls! By Clangeddin's hairy arse! Beronnar's bouncing breasts! ('Cause alliteration is fun!) Ye wee ruster! Dirty Drow-shagger! Goblin-rutter! More clueless'n an Elf with a hammer!

Hm. See, I am a verisimilitudist (??). F'rinstance, Harn remains my favourite game world, and any setting that tries for a consistent and believable world gets thumbs up from me for effort. But Kalamar...I didn't like the gods or their churches. I didn't like the countries. I didn't find it...