Recent content by PulpCruciFiction

GM: D&D 3.5e, Starblazer Adventures, Dread, My Life With Master, Trail of Cthulhu, The Mountain Witch Player: D&D 3.5e, Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies, Fiasco, Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu

I'm currently running the 3.5e update of ToH, and we're having a blast with it. Our group isn't really into the super-paranoid, 10-foot poles and test animals style of gaming, so I decided to run this dungeon similar to Gen Con's Tower of Gygax. We made nine pre-gen characters, then everyone...

The only one I can think of is: Glick - A verb meaning to reduce someone from full hit points to dead in one shot. "I got glicked by that dragon's breath weapon." EDIT: We also used FART for Find and Remove Traps in the 2e days, and our fighters would often declare "Hassan CHOP" prior to...

My last batch of purchases was kind of all over the place: The Kerberos Club - A Victorian age setting for Wild Talents, which has a great League of Extraordinary Gentlemen kind of vibe. I've had my eye on it since GenCon this year. Amber Diceless - I've wanted to give this one a try for a...

I started with D&D 2e around 1995. The first non-D&D RPG my group played was the West End Games Star Wars RPG, though shortly after that we started playing Heroes Unlimited as well.

Off the top of my head, over the past year I've played D&D 3.5, Dread, The Mountain Witch, Call of Cthulhu, Alpha Omega, Unknown Armies, Spirit of the Century, and Godlike. All time, I'll say "a lot."

I'm a big fan of the FATE system as well - if you're interested in going that way, I might try Diaspora, which is a hard sci-fi FATE system described as a cross between Traveller and Spirit of the Century. A lot of the conversion work would be done for you already. There's also Starblazer...

I guess I should define my terms a bit. By saying it's a good pickup game, I mean that I can spend a few hours designing a scenario and some questionnaires, then pick one up and play it with very little notice to the players. When writing the questionnaires beforehand, you can include elements...

Can you elaborate on this a little? Your point about RPGs that devolve into power-trip fantasies of privileged people who think they're entitled to run things being less interesting is well taken, but I'm wondering how you see that as being tied to indie game design philosophy.

I for one would love to see that! Dread makes a great pickup game, and I think it would be good to have a backlog of ready-to-play scenario outlines to use when the mood strikes. I've been working on a scenario taking place in sixth century Germany for this Halloween - I'll post an outline and...