Recent content by Scars Unseen

Nearly a decade. Started with some form of Basic (don't remember the version since I didn't own it) when I was 10, moved on to AD&D 2E maybe a year later, then joined a group in high school that mixed in some World of Darkness stuff, most notably Changeling. Moved and joined another group that...

Well, that was the push I needed to go ahead and add DCC to my collection. Just ordered the First Time Fan Kit as well as the Lankhmar box set and Dungeon Denizens book.

I wonder if 5E is really the best chassis for this archetype. I'm planning a mini-campaign that starts off with the players playing villagers that survive a massacre (the massacre will be played out in the first session; I'm planning out a full deck of characters for them to burn through before...

Let me go against the grain here by saying that there's absolutely nothing wrong with adding sci-fi flavored elements into D&D. D&D isn't medieval fantasy. It references medievalesque trappings frequently, yes, but both in terms of technology and culture, D&D is all over the place. Medieval...

It's up to WotC to decide whether or not I matter to them. For the most part, it feels like I don't. But that's okay. It means that over time I shift my spending from buying the newest D&D stuff to buying other systems, hitting up Kickstarters and hunting down old D&D stuff. If anything, I...

To me, the absolute core of D&D is a d20 and a social contract. Want to play DM Fiat: The Game? The players describe what they want to do, and the DM decides if a roll is needed, and what the threshold of success is. Anything you add to that just makes it more or less like one version of D&D...

1. Astroprisma I don't actually remember how I found this one (maybe a Kickstarter suggestion when I was backing something else), but I really like the aesthetic, and I can't wait to see how it turns out. 2. Ars Magica Definitive Edition Another game I backed. This game has been on my radar...

My personal solve to this is to make alignment less personality and more cosmic association. Whether by choice or by circumstance, those who are aligned have a relationship with the force they're aligned with. Being evil aligned might not mean that you do bad things. In fact it might be the...

No. It was great.

Wildbow's Pactverse would make a fascinating urban fantasy RPG.

Title ≠ Cover

I used Mos Eisley because the person replying to me used a Star Wars character themselves. The traveling circus one is my usual go-to for parties of characters that look tonally dissonant with their surroundings. As for covers, I prefer ones that at least try to hint at the tone of the...

Not really. Soth already had history by the time Knight of the Black Rose was published. His cover art was of a classic knight with glowing eyes, and his one-sentence description would be "undead cursed knight tortured by reminders of his past failure." Yes, you could draw parallels to Star...

I think it depends on what sort of campaign you're running. If you want a modern horror setup, yeah, it's pretty common for the protagonists to be pretty stereotypical people who are brought into extraordinary situations. The Mist pulls in a bunch of randos and dumps them into Ravenloft. In...

I got mine a few days ago, but due to classes and learning Ten Candles in advance of Halloween, I haven't had a chance to read through them yet.