Recent content by sinecure

Please ditch the nonexistent Combat/Non-combat divide. Just have all the stuff that is possible in combat possible outside of combat too without quick-time restrictions. Also, please ditch feats and another list of powers or even pseudo-powers. I don't even know what feats are supposed to be...

first, stories aren't worlds. If anything, a world is the opposite of a story. And all those over detailed campaign settings sold well because buyers wanted to play in games, but couldn't or wouldn't and so read passively along in travelogue format instead. It because next to useless to a DM as...

Just because you chose to play games against the rules as written does not rewrite those directions somehow into how you played the game. That's the close-mindedness I was referring to. EDIT: This all sounds like people who were either incapable or undesiring to learn the rules of a game and...

I like earning treasure. And it's not like I don't know some of what I'm getting when I see the bone-armored orc chieftain with that blackened bone axe cut through my steel armor without much effort. Or that pixie blowing pixie dust on my friends and making them sleep or turn against me. Or when...

imurphy943 storytelling games didn't even exist in the hobby until White Wolf in 1990. We can rewrite history to follow a narrow contemporary theory, but none of that is going to make any of the Forge's GNS "old school". That Narrativism could be made so is just another attempt to paint over...

I agree. An order could be given to the NPC to report back every day to a certain time and place and give over whatever info he learned that day. That's what I call scripting an NPC's behavior. Most of the time it's probably going to be useless information, but sooner or later the NPC is...

Thanks for your answer. I understand they made a game very much unlike games that came before. But how do the rules keep PCs from dominating other PCs? Can't you use your spells on other player characters any more?

Given his comments about "improvements" that could be made for OD&D, I don't think Mr. Tweet knows very much about old school game design philosophy. His examples of poor game design are actually "better" designs than the new stuff when old school play purposes are understood. I put better in...

As I understood D&D back in the 90's, NPCs were not allowed to act just any way the DM wanted. They had to follow certain rules. Mainly acting according to their alignment and based off the attitude adjustment tables similar to the ones in 3.X. But unless I'm missing something 4E has dropped...

This is it for me right here. This is why everything I play after second edition is a total let down.

Very Nice site. But that looks like a WotC 4E professional artist's site. If you check out the new FR Campaign book there may be a map in there. But Athkatla may also have been cut from the new version. I am not sure.

Pre-1993 BATTLESYSTEM Fantasy Combat Supplement [1e] [red box version] (*) (CAN $25) --This is pretty good, if you like mass combat systems. As with everything here, best to look through it first to make sure it is something you will really use. FORGOTTEN REALMS The Bloodstone Lands [FR9] --I...

The degree to which it conforms to the Forge's one true Big Model for RPGs. If it does not make sense under the Forge philosophy, it's either unfun or objectively bad game design.

He's not talking about character performance. He's talking about playing your class. Which is the whole point of playing a roleplaying game.

I do not want to claim the OP's quoted texter is railroading without warrant, but it sounds kind of like that is what he wants. How on earth does one "focus on your campaign and not building your world" work without forcing a plot on the players? Roleplaying is just living in that world...