Recent content by Staffan

Looking at the elemental domains back in 3e, they're pretty boring and uniform really. I think there's something there, but I think there's more use for "indirect" elemental domains. For example, "water" and "air" are pretty boring, but something like "The Sea" or "Tempest" are more fun. For...

It would likely be a painful experience.

I've run almost the whole campaign (the campaign got put on hiatus on account of Covid as the PCs were getting to the final Node, and we didn't start it back up when we started playing in-person again) and, to be frank, I would not want to repeat the process. The early stages with searching for...

I can't really agree with you there. I think part of what makes Superman interesting is his very human morality. His morality certainly can't be a Kryptonian superpower, because we see that Krypton kinda sucked, and we see other Kryptonians (like Zod) who are by no means "omnibenevolent". Also...

Ah, he's playing Fate and using Lore to inflict Aspects on the mystical foes.

AFAIK, here we tend to get this at the "crime scene" – some mod pops in and says "You know what, I'm sick of your nonsense in this and other threads. Bye!". But we don't get a centralized depository of bans and other penalties.

Yeah, these days crossovers and events are dominating the comics space (at least for Marvel) to much too high a degree. I love having small crossovers, like Spider-Man running into something obviously magical and swinging by Doctor Strange's place for help (and probably getting told by Wong that...

That makes sense, though IIRC Men in Black in Mage are specifically a New World Order thing, keeping Sleepers unaware of the wider goings-on using mind control and propaganda.

As an aside, I have backed 59 kickstarters (plus some crowdfunders on other platforms but I can't be bothered to check on those), and there's only one that actually turned out to be vaporware (Lasting Tales skirmish minis game + minis Fantasy Set 1 and 2). Others may have struggled with delays...

I have no idea. I have never met either person, and am fairly unlikely to do so. But my understanding is that the revelations about Barker came as a bolt from the blue for most people. I don't recall anyone at the time saying "Yeah, that figures" – the most common response was "That makes no...

Counterexample: M.A.R. Barker.

Wouldn't Iteration X be a better fit for Void Engineers? Space folks these days tend to be all about building engines and robots and such, which seems closer to Iteration X than the business focus of the Syndicate.

I have some vague memories of playing Pendragon back in the 90s, and at least back then Traits had an additional function as well. Your Knight could come from different cultures, which would likely have different faiths – Christian and Pagan were, I think, the big ones but there may have been...

I've seen rules like that, that go beyond regular "cost of living" in two RPGs: Conan d20 and Warhammer 4e. In Conan, I believe the rule is that unless you are specifically putting money away toward saving for a particular thing, each time unit (I don't remember if it's week or month) spent in...

I happened to click on a poster's name in a thread and was surprised to see this piece of info: Clicking onward to the poster's profile I could see the specific things that had incurred the moderators' wrath. Is that really something we commoners are supposed to see? I remember asking...