Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Respect is earned. It is not acquired automatically by accumulating years.

Technically, the critical role classes are treated as 3PP on DBB now.

And the hero. And 99% of all the other characters in the movie. If there is a character who isn't white or straight, they are probably a sidekick who dies tragically.

It might be worth mentioning that White Dwarf magazine in the early 80s regularly covered Traveller, including suggestions on running the game, and generic (ie not Third Imperium) adventures and stuff. Travellers’ Journal was mostly Third Imperium focused.

I do feel that people are too frightened to talk about death. We all die, if you treat it as casually as eating and pooping it takes away the fear.

You are kind of getting into real world belief systems here, so I'm being a bit cautious about the sites restrictions on talking about religion, but some people believe in something called Actualisation. Now, its always dangerous to try and describe something believed by others that you do not...

I never had any problem with the skill system.

I have noticed that audiobook readers sometimes pronounce things wrong themselves though.

We are pretty much all similar ages on this forum around (40-60).

The Mongoose game isn’t much changed from the original. They do incorporate a fair bit of stuff from the many supplements that GDW put out. At the time they were pocket money prices, I’m not sure if you can pick them up easily now, but the game is a bit incomplete without them. I played quite a...

Yeah, that’s why you need to keep recruiting new younger customers.

I lost count at 87.

Not to mention that they are going to die off.

Sure, very much how I lived in the 60s.

I would have slotted it into something. There will be other stuff around for the players to do. Adventures from books still exist in a world, its not blank pages if the players go in a direction that wasn't included.