Recent content by HaroldTheHobbit

As I’ve written elsewhere, the older I get the grittier and lower powered I make my campaigns. WFRP, Traveller, CoC. PCs are ordinary folks, with some degree of competence and possibly even very good at what they do, but they are not übermensch.

In a world where fantasy supernatural beings exist as gods and they empower people to create miracles of different power level, I wouldn’t call it religion anymore, since that include faith and belief in beings or powers that can’t be proven to exist - and one doesn’t usually believe in...

Supers. I just don’t understand how to have or generate fun in that genre. I blame that mostly on that supers comics have always been a very minor thing here in Sweden compared to the US. It might be different for younger gamers who have grown up drenched in the MCU franchises.

We role for intent when that is meaningful and adds to the fun. Otherwise we just narrate stuff and/or use solutions like Savage Worlds tools for quick task resolution.

Current D&D isn’t a delicate machine that will fall apart if you touch it. Make some sh*t up and adjust and adapt in the moment if necessary. It’s not like the PCs can die if you are a bit off, at most they have to use some resources.

I don’t see why mind control should be implicitly evil when chopping heads of with a sword is tied to context dependent morality. I don’t want to be mind controlled, but it’s better than getting a dagger in my heart.

I’m very much inclined to not buy anything from companies that use an IP to make an easy buck through gambling, booze or other stuff that are - objectively or in my own opinion - detrimental to society. I have less and less tolerance for greedy @ssholes without an ounce of ethic spine.

Yeah, this is how I do it too, for adventures and campaigns.

Warhammer The Old World rpg pdfs. A really good game, but I’m still going with WFRP4e for my upcoming Old World grit’n’filth’n’chaos campaign.

I totally agree, and me and my table only game via Foundry. But the thing is, the crunchier a system gets - and even more so for a crunchy, fiddly and quirky game like 4e - the less the players can escape still needing to read and grok massive amounts of rules and text to make informed desicions...

Well, take a game like Pathfinder 2e that I think is very crunchy. Despite the crunch, it has unified mechanics, is well structured and organized, and feels streamlined and playable despite the chrunchorama. WFRP4e feels like the opposite, despite being less crunchy. It’s badly organized and...

I find the 4e system too crunchy and quirky, and will start a TOW campaign this fall. But I still want to recommend C7s amazing line of 4e books, they are filled to the brim with great lore, fluff and ideas and really make the Old World come alive. Imho they are useful no matter what system you...

After a couple of years of unhealth, I got a pacemaker this spring and feel like a new person. So I’m hitting the gym five times a week, 3 x cardio + 2 x strength. And darn it feels good getting into shape again!

Possibly. But in most games, different races simply manifest amplified aspects of human traits and psychology, with different skins and possibly some mechanical odds and ends. And my players are pretty adept at taking simple humans to many different places roleplaywise, including lofty...

There is no badwrong in fun, and it has lots of different faces.