Recent content by haakon1

WotC killed 3x with splatbooks for CharOp. TSR killed 2e with splatbooks and an unsupportable large number of settings. So far, 5e has been more restrained.

I agree. It’s what I still run. The core rules are great and super flexible, and it’s compatible enough with what came before - I run mostly AD&D and Basic adventures. The do anything easily aspect of 3x - easy to use a monster as a PC, easy to import d20 stuff from other genres if you want...

Oh yes. In Lord of the Rings Risk, I choose green and proceeded to collect the Elven lands with no interest in actual winning conditions. My friend Mat guessed what I was up to. In Game of Thrones Risk, I add the Valar Morgulis card to a deck that’s used a lot. When it comes up, game over...

Or “the D&D setting” = Forgotten Realms, as general media seems to assume. For me, FR is only properly the very well publicized Realms: the Sword Coasts, the dales, and in a pinch nearby places like Cormyr. Is Al-Qadim FR? If it’s anything, yes, but will we ever see it promoted by WotC...

News to me. I missed the IKEA and the Ranch 99 on the Nentir Vale maps. :p

I dunno.

Today, I download the 2 (of 3 ever made) Jakandor books available on DriveThruRPG. Jakandor: Isle of War is the Knorr book. Jakandor: Land of Legends is the overall DM book, not fully baked without the others. The missing book is called Jakandor: Isle of Destiny. It’s the Charonti book. It’s...

I wonder what game system they were using? With Waterdeep mentioned, perhaps some form of D&D 5e, as that’s sometimes assumed to be “the” RPG. But I wonder if there were rules at all?

Same. The groups I DM are mostly recruited from people I know outside gaming. I would say D&D is useful for maintaining and sometimes deepening friendships, though. Census time. Of 9 active players across 2 email campaigns I DM, I met 7 outside D&D. I’d say 4 are truly friends, 1 an in-law...

I don’t understand the topic (or question) either, but if the premise is 5e is “meh” in some ways compared to many other versions of D&D that are in some ways better, I probably agree.

If I recall correctly, the collective term for what’s now the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia etc. is Austronesia. Along with Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, maybe it’s all Oceania? But I guess for historical connection reasons, Austronesia and the rest of the First Island Chain are...

Sounds pretty good to me. Greyhawkins has a nice ring to it.

It looks pretty close to what I was thinking. E.g., info about Captain Cook barely European contact era to the “Chief of War” era rise of King Kamehameha , including weapons, mana, kahuna, chiefs and other castes, agriculture, trade, religion and prophecy, etc. I don’t know that I’d ever run a...

Thanks. I missed that. I’ll have to go read your Let’s Read in its entirety.

So far as I can tell, there’s slim to none use of Hawaii or Polynesia as RPG settings. Watching Jason Mamoa’s “Chief of War” on Apple TV, I think that’s a shame. All I can find is Razor Coast, which seems to pirates but with a hint of Hawaiian content, and this one apparently indy publication...