Recent content by MacDhomnuill

One of the worst print on demand books I ever got was from Lulu. It fell apart in less than a month. Books produced print on the demand are not great, but lightning source does a pretty damn good job for the volume they handle.

My approach is always been to run through a couple of situations 100% rules is written to get a feel for the system maybe play a session or two and then start thinking about what I like and don’t like and making small changes as we go. A good example is hit points, I hate hit points I don’t care...

I just want to say that this has become one of the most civil and academic discussions of racism out side of a university setting I have read in a very long time and it warms the cackles of my political science heart.

I can’t agree more on the whole grim dark thing. I am so tired of Settings being Grimm dark. I actually went back and rewrote my 70,000 word draft novel because I wanted to be more hopeful because Grimm dark is just dumb. A grim dark society doesn’t function at all unless it is literally at its...

I wish I could, but new siding on the house has trumped all gaming fun for the next couple years. Going to try to get a game in at our localish con midwest game fest in kansas city in april though!

When I played a lot of Wargames, we often had role-play elements incorporated especially in BattleTech. I feel like it was pretty common in most games except Games Workshop stuff which didn’t lend it self to real roleplaying, narrative sure but not much in the way of actual role play the way I...

Oh yes, the forge. Is there anything that the folks on the Forge didn’t claim credit for creating in the gaming hobby? They sure as hell didn’t come up with the term heartbreaker because we were using heartbreaker in the late 80s early 90s well before the forge even existed. I’m sorry you had...

This is how I always saw it used but much like grognard ( in wargaming its a term of endearment for older grumbly gamers) the youngs like take old things out of context/connotation and completely change the meaning/usage. Language evolves I guess.

This feels like chasing the market if the market was a couple years ago, dungeon crawlers are waning right now as we’ve had quite a glut of them the last 10 years or so. MCDM looks like a company thats building a business model on stringing along kickstarters hope it works out for them.

Oh yes it’s something alright: https://rpggeek.com/rpg/3927/dinosaur-planet-broncosaurus-rex-role-playing-game

I found nothing worth while in DCC that hasn’t been done better by other games like shadowdark. Funnels are the worst idea to come out of the OSR crowd, magical mishaps pull me right out of any kind of immersion as who would study magic (how do any apprentices survive more than a week?), and any...

I have been wrestling with many of the same issues. I no longer have a group and have been running games for my kids for a couple years but even that seems to be to much work and of no pleasure. Everything runs its course and knowing when to call it is tough. Safe travels friend I hope you can...

The original APs were japanese write ups circulated in zines and some full blown gaming magizines. Hell the anime Record of Lodoss war is an AP in its own right. AP as a term popped up in the 90s but until acquisitions Incorporated started publishing audio, cut some podcasts and eventually...

We used classic traveller to run some battletech games after the limitation of mechwarrior 1e became apparent. Traveller IMHO just runs scifi well regardless of IP, we also ran a startrek game with classic that was great. The combat system is dangerous enough to fit the setting and skills are...

I honestly just like games that are better at reflecting some realism and represent the genre I want better than dnd. The mechanics on DnD are a massive turn off for me, I don’t like AC, Class and level, and prefer something more interesting than HP.