Recent content by GrimCo

I try sometimes, when mood hits me. Not that i'm very good at it. But more often than not, i just my regular voice/accent.

Sure, i get it. Your personal golden age, same as mine was in early 2000s for pretty similar reasons. I was imprecise. It's more for people who said that 80s were golden age of gaming in general. @DragonLancer Most of those games were either not available or not popular in much of the...

6 hours. 2 sessions of Cairn. 15% of all sessions this year :cry:

Question for people that put Golden age in the 80s. Why? Sure, it was age when rpgs where new, there was lot of creativity etc. But also, it was age where availability was limited to what your local store had, information about games and products circulated slowly, by magazines (which were...

On the individual level, Golden age is one where you have stable group and enough free time. My personal golden age was 2003-2011. HS and Uni years. 2 stable groups, regular weekly games (sometimes even 2x week), 6-8 hour long Saturday sessions. Generally, i would say that last decade was...

Brakes are normal part of any hobby. Sometimes you take brake voluntary, sometimes life puts hobbys on the break. First involuntary brake was on my first year of Uni, HS group fell appart. I didn't go look for another group for about year, year and a half. Second was when half our group got...

I jump in ocasionally in PF1 game for session or two. Would jump for couple of sessions of 3.5 also. It's fun, from player side. There's no chance in hell i would run either of those as a DM these days. Between 3, 3.5 and PF1, even without 3PP, there is abundance of material, from settings, to...

5e Middle Earth is great. My brother bought books and since then, it's my go to for more grounded, low fantasy games. It does GoT or Vikings style game pretty well i may add. Brancolonia is on this years Christmas wish list ( already hinted in not so subtle way to wife ). But yes, D&D is...

Some players want to play it out. They don't want to talk it out, it diminishes the experience. Some are ok with narrating everything. And there are those in between who want various degrees of direct involvement. That's something that should be discussed during session 0, how hands on they...

Pirates of Caribbean are, by today's standard, old movie franchise. First one is 22 years old, last one is 8 years old. Black Sails are 11 years old tv show. One Piece started in 1999. Those tree are probably most influential pices of modern pop culture for most of current D&D player base. And...

For many people, playing pirates without ships and maritime shenanigans isn't playing pirates. I will be first one to tell people if they run it in d&d to try to minimize that part and find creative ways and house rules to make it fun, but it's important ingredient.

Naval combat doesn't need to be center focus and main theme, but players in pirate campaign usually expect at least some action on the high seas. It could be ship against Kraken, escaping military ships, or raiding undefended merchant. Even just trying to survive storm at sea is iconic trope...

Novel is quite different then movie cause there is no cat&mouse game in novel it more privateers and anti privateers action in Mediterranean if i recall correctly (it's been long time). Movie M&C rips off Balance of terror which ripped off Enemy below. But never the less, plot aside, M&C movie...

Acheron (french ship in M&C) is privateer. It's also a movie about naval warfare between frigate and heavy frigate (Acheron is “ship of the line–like” heavy frigate). It's pirate movie in reverse in a sense, since it's told from the perspective of British hunting French privateer along the coast...

Yup, like 7th sea, which is already set during that time and it's built around swashbuckling adventures we usually connect pirate fiction with. It gives much better experience and it's much more DM friendly out of the box. If one insists using d&d for pirate theme, i would strongly suggest to...