Recent content by jacleg05

I have to find an actual play to watch or listen to compare it to my favorite cinematic rule set, Savage Worlds.

Alternity was a great system that came out at a bad time. If TSR had released it earlier, it might have found a wider audience. Though it did get a lot of support material, and there were some good articles in the Dragon/Ares magazine. My favorite ones were how to use Alternity in the Traveller...

Had many of the S*D and other Alternity books. Unfortunately, my friends were 3.0 fiends.

Just received this from the library. It is a hefty tome!

When high level pc's enter a city, this should be a reaction from others.

Even if they do not want to take any responsibility , the pc's reputation could affect all sorts of things. Plots accelerated or put on hold until they leave the area. Priests and champions of the faith are now part of their deity's "A-Team." Artifacts or magic items they own could draw unwanted...

Another thing as pc's become more powerful, they could also become targets of those they thwarted in the past, steal a magic items they have, or the target of npc adventurers.

Not a player of 5th edition, but I have a question. If a PC gets so powerful in combat and etc, shouldn't the campaign switch to where the pc's are now movers and shakers in the world? Mighty warrior, general of armies or navies? Magic user could be an advisor to the ruler, or ruler themselves...

Seems like it only one type of barbarian.

For some reason, I thought the author of Grognardia.blogspot, was involved with this in a previous edition. I know a game he wrote used the 12 Degree system. There was also a series of books set in the pre-revolution colonies where magic is used, but only to a few.

In a skit on Saturday Night Live a few decades ago, a character, stated he liked haiku's because the limitations of poetry, set him free. The same is for setting limitations for character options. If you have every option available, what makes the setting unique? Not every option fits every...

What's different from the previous 5th edition version?

This was one of my favorite issues. Half orcs was my favorite player race/species.

This kind of reminds of a game I read about 5+ years ago called, "One Last Job." As I remember it, the characters were doing 'one last job' before they officially stop being criminals. The game starts after the heist has gone bad. The objective was to show how it went bad and to survive the...