Recent content by Shiny Space Octopus

Star Trek Adventures 2e Gamemaster, drunk, takes free will.

Modiphius Star Trek Adventures 2e: “Klingon war stopped… for now.”

This isn’t really what is being discussed, but I run Dungeon World for 5th and 6th graders at my school, and I pretend I’m trying to kill their characters every game. They squeal and high five each other when they ‘beat’ me, and yell “You are trying to kill us!” every monster. They actually know...

Warhammer Fantasy Role-play 1e. It is perfect in its imperfection and complete on its own.

I loved everything about it! I don’t have my copy anymore - but there was something about a pope and world government. Amazing piece of work.

Led Pigchip! Or something like that, right?

Like all of you, I have so many favorites. My Mentzer D&D book, WHFRp 1e Realms of Chaos, WEG Star Wars. Here’s my favorites today: Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes. An amazing piece of work that will have you losing sanity points just from reading it. Scary and deep. Highland Paranormal...

I laughed at this. Thanks!

That's a great character! You should keep it. We have had some really good ones, some pretty bad ones, and some in-between ones using this method over the last 25 years. Not as risky as many dice rolling character generation methods can be, to be sure - but it still generates some risk and luck...

I grew up on Basic D&D, moving to 1st edition AD&D. We always rolled stats, eventually settling on 4d6 drop the low, re-roll 1's. Put them where you want. I agree with the above poster that said the 'gambling' aspect of rolling stats is just fun. The point system for stats seems like a decent...