Recent content by Scurvy_Platypus

No, I at least understand that Vikings were more complex than Conan. Trade with other cultures, including the Middle East (Turkey) I think. The note about Fatalist is interesting and valuable, thanks! Ah, interesting. I was aware that the æsir were fairly mobile in the rest of the realms but I...

Thanks for your thoughts. Happy to hear anything further. The setting for these rules is... post-apoc?... so I, happy to drift a bit from the traditional. Maybe I will take a Paladin and swap a bit of their abilities or something. Because of my discomfort with cultural appropriation, as well...

That looks cool. Unfortunately, I live in the land of the Southern Peso, so that $37 US becomes like $60 NZ. I'll have to think about maybe picking it up when the project is further along. Definitely looks interesting though. Classes... sigh... It's possible to work out the very basics (to hit...

I wanted to dive a bit deeper on this... I'm a bit torn on addressing base classes and their abilities. Just looking through the forums, there's so much noise about "what's broken" and why and how and how to solve it... I feel like I could ask 10 people for their opinion and get 15 different...

So, as far as specific pain points... I'm not looking to solve anything specifically, at least as far as the base classes are concerned. Which is why I haven't said anything specific about class tweaking or whatever. They're there, they don't seem to upset too many people too badly, they get the...

tl;dr A number of folks over the years have made comments to the effect of "if you don't like it, you can always build your own D&D". And they're right... you can. And since this is something that's been poking at me for the past 15 years or so, I've decided to do something about it. So, I'm on...

Yeah. 😞 Like I said, I'm willing to do the work but it'd be a lot easier if 5e had some point-buy options. I'm aware of Anime5e existing but won't touch it for a variety of reasons. Maybe I'll just have to figure out something myself; however, that still requires an underlying base, so that if I...

Quick resolution and simple is my basic inclination. I prefer to run games that are high-action/octane and over-the-top; I want my party kicking down the doors and going in wands blazing and kicking some villain from one room to another. To match that, I want monsters that are gonna be...

Thanks folks. I'm aware of Flee Mortals but haven't picked it up; there's so many monster books out there, it's hard to know exactly where to start collecting. Also, I'm not in a space of being able to collect more books now, even in electronic form. I kinda gotta use what I've already got or be...

Making my own. A source to use for monsters... there's a horde of them. That number increases significantly, the more willing I am to look at a source that isn't strictly D&D. However, even within the D&D eco system, you've got 3rd parties which may or may not have figured their monsters...

I've had a...time limit... placed on me, due to health reasons. So I find myself wondering "What should I be using for monsters now?" Like... should I fish out my 2014 DMG, should I go with Forge of Foes, or... something else entirely? Back in 3.5, I was heavily into monster creation and all...

Edit: deleted to start its own thread. Apologies.

Sadly, my original update(s) got eaten and I'm not sure there's actually a market for it now but... They did this 20 years ago and called it Everstone: Bloodstone Legacy. BESM20-based, although their implementation was a bit rough around the edges. Moon Magi: Focused on travel and...

I'm Scurvy Platypus and I approve this message... So, with that being the case... I'm going to go waaaaaaaay back to the dawn of time (20 years ago) and suggest a BESMd20 product you can still get, dirt cheap... Everstone: Bloodstone Legacy...

The main problem with an edible version, is that as the game progresses, you have fewer and fewer rules. Although that might not actually be a problem for some folks.