Recent content by HaroldTheHobbit

I hope I was clear that what I described was my personal feelings and experiences with the rpg genre, not meant to point any fingers at anyone other than myself. As always, as long as fun is had there is no badwrong, no matter what game system, genre or playstyle.

Well, if you are a good guy it ain’t cyberpunk! It’s gray man, gray!

This very much. I’m very coloured by good cyberpunk literature as to what makes up the genre, and it’s simply not (traditional) rpg friendly. If there is any combat at all, it’s short, brutal and sporadic. If there is a job/heist, it’s usually what the whole book leads up, and even then it’s not...

I’ve read every published piece of fiction by Gibson.

Haven’t watched it, I don’t like cartoons.

I’ve been a deep fan of cyberpunk literature ever since Neuromancer blew my mind as a young teen, and like to think that I’m descently well versed in the literary genre. But I’ve never had fun playing cyberpunk rpgs. I guess that’s because the games never live up to what cyberpunk is to me...

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.