Recent content by Scurvy_Platypus

Howdy. Fellow by the name of Steven Cooper rather exhaustively covered the differences back in...2006. Helpfully, he put all his notes into little pdfs. I've still got mine, but it looks like it's still accessible via the Wayback Machine...

From an in-progress draft of rules... Instead of trying to explain what a rpg “is” and then comparing it to cops and robbers or collaborative storytelling, or some other thing, let’s define what a rpg is in the context of these rules. A roleplaying game is a game in which the participant(s) make...

Hmmmm. But at that point, aren't you actually liable to run into the problem that GM's complain about, the 15 minute day? Only now, it's more like 3 minute day. Nobody will want to advance or do anything because they're down a few hit points and so they've lost their special bennie. If anything...

There isn't really a solution that I've seen offered over the years that "does it all" The bit about PF2? That's similar to SDC and Hitpoints from Palladium. The Vitality and Hitpoint variant from 3.5 also hits within this space...

I understand. My point though is that Basic and all the subsequent sets were their own deal. There were modules published for them, etc. What's now known as BECMI was a full on ruleset that people could stay with or could drop and move to AD&D if they wanted. What has been offered since then...

People in the "D&D is based primarily on Tolkien" camp tend to also subscribe to the idea that Gary was lying about not really caring for Tolkien. As an opinion/belief, most people aren't really open to having it changed; that's the thing about opinions and beliefs in the first place; people...

I'd be interested if it was actually a simpler rule system. But a gutted version with limited levels so that people will move on to the "full" Pathfinder game... *shrug* People would be a lot less nostalgic about BECMI if TSR had said, "Here's 5 levels. When you're ready, buy the full AD&D...

I can see that. *shrug* It's not something that matters overly much to me, so I won't bother pursuing it. No, we're not talking about that. Water Bob said he didn't like the Tumble skill in a "tolkien-esque universe". I took and take exception to the notion that D&D is a "tolkien-esque...

I _wish_ that it would be like the old Basic set, where you had BECMI and then AD&D. I'm pretty sure they're not going to do that though. :( Which means for me it's of limited use/utility. If they actually were doing a full-on lighter version (as opposed to a gutted version intended to move...

D&D also features demons, devils, and angelic beings. So does that mean that D&D is a Christian setting? I'm not arguing about whether or not Tolkien was an influence tossed into the creation of D&D. I'm saying that D&D is not automatically a "tolkien-esque universe". Just like the superhero...

I understand that. My point though is that appear to have leapt to the assumption that D&D is a "tolkien-esque universe" and therefore the Tumble skill feels out of place to you. I'm saying that's not the case; lots of people are obsessed with gritty D&D, but that doesn't mean it's what the...

For me it depends on the question "how important is travel in the first place?" Some stories (movies etc) have travel be important; it's where character development is happening and the vast majority of the story takes place as the characters travel. It doesn't matter if it's travel so they can...

I read Tolkien, I watched the movies... *shrug*... I really can't fault Randall in Clerks 2 when he says, "All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a *redacted* volcano." D&D is not "Lord of the Rings", so no I don't have a problem; I don't do Tolkien/LotR...

I personally like to keep things as simple as possible. Since this is being done on "downtime", that seems reasonable; the whole job thing isn't a major focus of the game, just something that's being done on the side for a bit of character development and possibly a minor benefit occasionally...

*shrug* I'm fine with guns in my fantasy. But I never really got the "I hate psionics" either. To me, wands _are_ the fantasy version of guns. The fact that they can be loaded up with something other than fireballs doesn't change the essential nature of them as far as I'm concerned. The...