Recent content by HaroldTheHobbit

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.

All is well if it works for you and your players.

Me and my players like the roleplaying component and take that pretty serious, it’s what’s fun for us. I hope you don’t call the rpg police on us.

I may be a boring GM when doing fantasy campaigns, but I prefer my players characters to be human, or at most one of the Tolkien races. The reason for this is simply that I have yet to meet a player who can play an ”exotic race” character as anything other than a human with bad makeup and some...

I don’t believe in the supernatural, be it ghosts, goblins or god. I have way more to say on this topic, but not in this forum, since I would break the rules here.

I still read Conan darnit, get off my lawn. But seriously me and most of my players don’t and didn’t have fantasy as a favourite lit/media genre, although we love it as a gaming genre. As a GM I get most of my inspiration from other genres - although my main inspiration these days are right wing...

Me, I love Savage Pathfinder for my D&Dish fix. Very Deeandeeish feeling, but doing away with the need for meaningless and boring attrition battles, and the system is great for sandboxy, low prep and high improv longer campaigns with good tools for non-combat.

Today I learned from in situ observation that while keeping ducks in the garden make it free of snails and slugs, the ducks won’t touch or taste the redlisted panther slug. I gave my duck pals an extra bowl of yummy peas for being so environmentally concious.

I don’t do oneshots or shorter stuff, only one long campaign at a time with one session per week, and I’m happy with that. That I don’t want more is partly because I can put as much or little effort in prep for my one weekly session as I like, depending on other commitments - it keeps GMing fun...

I’ve moved to PDFs since a handfull of years, besides some core books for systems I really like. Part of the reason is shelf space, but price is a factor too - I would never pay current paper book prices just to check out a system like I did a decade ago.