Recent content by Jahydin

Yeah, I see it as a Modern take on the OSR. Modern to me can mean two things: Having a non-Gygaxian (mathematical crunch) trajectory or using some sort of meta mechanic/currency. All completely subjective of course.

Well, since a bot necroed this thread, might as well take the time to gloat about Hackmaster! 4e Hackmaster has the most in-depth rules for fantasy intoxication I've ever seen!

Just lack of complexity. For instance, Non-Modern: Modern:

That's one of the reasons C&C will always be a part of my collection - it's a great balance between old/new D&D power levels. Because of OSE's power level, it lends itself perfectly to dangerous and whimsical campaigns (Gavin really leans into with his Dolmenwood setting). Player death isn't...

@1QD is a game designer and asks questions like these for feedback, so phrased my answer from that angle to be more helpful. To be a bit more personable though, currently there's nothing more important in an RPG than the artwork to get me to buy a game. Once I have that game, there's nothing...

Maybe it's because we all play video games, but missing players have never been a big deal to us. They're just not there; drop-in/drop-out style. Does it make the session harder? Oh yeah, but I find that helps put friendly pressure on them to join. It helps I usually run with around 6 players...

I can't think of anything more important to the success of an RPG than the artwork. You could have next to no mechanics, small page count, and typo/grammatical errors and the book will still sell like hotcakes if the art is good enough.

This makes me think I might have misinterpreted their desire to have Gary around. Maybe it was more to clarify what he wanted rather than a need for his brilliance. 😓

Very late to this party, but just finished the podcast over the holidays and have all sorts of mixed emotions. I don't think I've ever been more proud and more disappointed in a single person. Some thoughts: Although not dived into deeply, the inference of how creative Gary was and how well...

Article if interested: https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/jennifer-lopez-other-singers/ I actually found out watching a Milli Vanilli documentary. Author pointed out what was once unforgivable is now no longer an issue really. Did some more digging, and looks like ghost singing is...

Oh boy, I tip my hat off to you. I love UG, but those forums... point taken. I believe that. Probably more than ever too. Was absolutely floored to find out J-Lo doesn't even sing many of her hit songs. Not just lip syncing, like there's other people who sing the song she's lip syncing to. Talk...

Agreed, but it seems to be "well meaning" at least? Also, the ratio of jerks/friendlies is better! For instance, if the strings on my Fender are clanking and I post about it on a guitar forum, I'm mostly going to get some solid advice from people. At worst, I might get the, "Eew, you have a...