Recent content by Scars Unseen

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.

Again, only if the DM awards it. I wouldn't.

Maybe if you're giving XP out via algorithm. As a DM, I would award players absolutely nothing for that save for possibly advice that continuing to play their characters that way would see them swiftly hunted down by more lawful parties and hanged.

I put a "3" because I believe that WotC's (or Hasbro's, your pick) business strategies dominate their game design more than a genuine desire to make the best product possible. I don't fault a company for trying to make money, but the way they do it can and does diminish my enthusiasm for the...