Recent content by obidavekenobi

Agreed. The fluff all transfers, and I, too, run my FR campaigns between 1345-1375DR...the Golden Era, I like to call it, before the proliferation of the Internet IRL really sucked a lot of the life from the genre.

The "Kingmaker" campaign setup in PFRPG was one of the best things, I think, that came out of that game system as far as PC "endgame" goes. It worked a very nice story arc in with the building of your kingdom, and everyone had a part in the decision-making and storytelling. Every PC had both a...

"Build Marketplaces my lord so that the peasants can barter for needed goods." Wish they never got rid of the cut scenes! LOL You can watch them all on YouTube, now, actually. The Wonder Movies were also rather enjoyable.

Axis & Allies, in all its various iterations, fits the bill, I think. I'm still playing my original Big Box edition, but now with my teenage son. The rest of the Big Box games ("Fortress America," "Broadsides and Boarding Parties," "Conquest of the Empire," and "Shogun") were also fun to play...

After having played D&D in all its iterations since 1979 I knew 5E would experience the bloat, but, as others have pointed-out, it's not as overstuffed with supps as other RPGs in the past or present. For that I and my group are thankful. One solution my game group came up with was this: I DM...

Like so many game systems it's all about what you want to get out of your gaming experience. The beauty of WEG's d6 was its quickly-paced, shoot-from-the-hip, low rules-heavy setup. The difficulty system (D&D 5E, anyone?) ranging by 5's from 1-31+ was easy to run and play. Very rarely when I...