Recent content by Jeffzilla

This is the thing that most disappointed me about Greyhawk as a kid. I wanted to know what was out there in 'the D&D world' so that I could integrate my adventures and my adventurers in that living breathing place. Greyhawk felt... unfinished. It was only years later, after running and...

While I wouldn't have used the word 'gritty,' myself, I tend to think of Greyhawk as a fantasy world more inspired by the Middle Ages, and less inspired by the Renaissance-- more low fantasy, or maybe lower high fantasy, than other settings. But that's also admittedly just how I think of...

About Questworlds... Robin Laws' 2000 HeroWars was, as I understand it, separate from Greg Stafford's Glorantha setting, but there was a 2nd edition called HeroQuest in 2003 and then a 3rd edition called HeroQuest Glorantha in 2015 which merged the system and setting. After Chaosium sold the...

Funny, this is exactly what I meant when I said that each fantasy nation in 7th Sea clearly takes stereotypical inspiration from their real-world analogues. But I didn't mean it in a bad way. Players need some sort of a mental shorthand to understand what each place is and drawing upon 'Zorro...

From what I understand, it's the same Thean nations from 2nd edition plus Numa, which is a sort of 7th Sea fantasy version of Greece. I don't see 7th Sea 'Avalon' as real-world 'England' or 7th Sea 'Eisen' as real-world 'Germany,' even if those fantasy countries clearly take stereotypical...

I was intrigued by Talaran because Larry Elmore did the cover art. I mean, in the eyes of teenage me, that and the official license made the PBM pretty legit. They did a sci fi PBM, too. Traveller, maybe? I don't recall. I think I paid for my book and whatever the first few turns cost but...

Okay, I had that one coming.

I was surprised not to see the 7th Sea 3rd edition campaign listed. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agate/7th-sea-ttrpg-a-new-journey?ref=activity

Well, I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.

You're more charitable in your description of the guy's modus operandi than I am, which is probably for the best. Although I'd strongly warn potential backers to R-U-N from any campaigns that he's involved in. The problem is that he has a history of launching new campaigns under front...

BLG didn't deliver for Fantasy 1, though-- at least not in the USA. Their storage fees for Fantasy 1 went into arrears and they wound up abandoning their inventory to Quartermaster Logistics. QML were sort of the heroes here, though, and instead of just auctioning off the unclaimed property...

Don't disagree. In the case of BLG it was murky because there were a string of campaigns in quick succession and backers in the first 4 or 5 were already taken by the time everything was defaulted on. Later backers especially had evidence of what was going on, had they checked, but it still...

Same. BLG seems to have a history of crowdfunding for miniatures, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, then failing to fulfill and selling the IP to somebody else-- who charges again for fulfillment. Rinse, wash, repeat. And I blame Kickstarter for allowing it to happen repeatedly.

Yes, Green Ronin just announced to backers that they'd be releasing the PDF early to help fund the ongoing legal situation with Diamond.

Thanks for your take!