Recent content by jaycrockett

Someone may have failed their reading the sample page check, as it explains how the character depicted is not what he appears to be.

Definitely the Keep on the Shadowfell starter adventure. Even if you just use the pregens and maps and monster stats and make your own adventure. 4e is very a different different game, you and your group might as well try it out before spending a bunch of money on it. I was nostalgic myself...

Zero magic. A party of rogues raiding a dungeon still feels like D&D to me.

Yeah I'm on SJG's mailing list. I meant more when I browse around the internet I wish the ads were "This thing is available in our store now!" instead of the constant "Signup to be notified when our new kickstarter starts!" All the SJG games I've kickstarted have turned out great, actually...

Car Wars 6th is great. Also most of the classic stuff was reprinted a few years back if you wanted to get into the lore. I love most Steve Jackson games stuff, I'm kind of over Kickstarter though. I wish I got ads when kickstarted stuff was retail available rather then when a kickstarter was...

How dare they change a game I've never spent a dime on!

I feel like a kid getting a rpg boxed set from relatives who thought it was a board game has been happening since at least the early 80's.

Someone needs to tell me if Nancy Kulp is actually rollerskating in this episode or I'll have to be buying it.

Whoa boy did not know that. Had to go look that up, because the Greyhwak supplement was before my time. That entry includes that the Dragon queen is striped and has a wyvern tail, and there's also a weird dig on 'women's lib'.

It's unusual that experienced players would make the newbie be the DM, so yeah, I can see that would be tough. D&D is getting more unwieldy, true, but it's still the least unwieldy edition so far.

I'm 50, and my kids are 13 and 15, so yeah this marketing makes sense to me.

I actually had a D&D club in middle school, in the mid eighties, but not in high school. Not exactly sure why. During lunch in high school we played spades. Now that I think of it, I wonder if there was a contingent of my friend group who would have been averse to D&D due to their church. I...

So what do we think the tentacles are? Darkmantle? I'm assuming these assets were given to represent something from the movie.

To me, starting out as a kid in the early 80's, the basic and advanced products were all the same game, because they both were unplayable as written. We cobbled together from every source we could find. I inherited both a holmes basic and a player's handbook from my brother, but ended up...

Since every interaction I have had with backerkit has resulted in my receiving product, it somehow feels more reliable to me than kickstarter. I know that is just a trick of the fulfillment process, but psychologically I have no problem working with backerkit, they feel like a known quantity.