Recent content by Staffan

I'll note that these days they're mostly doing 3-part APs, which would be approximately 200 pages of actual adventure and 100 pages of supplementary but related material. My guess is that this is related to the subject of the thread: they noticed sales of later AP installments falling off, so...

Right, it's not T&A horny. It's intimate, comfortable, and vulnerable, like you're seeing them in a "shields down" moment. It's clearly something that a lot of people find interesting and gets their motors going, but it's not titillating in the way a lot of classic fantasy art is. And definitely...

A friend of mine used to go on holiday in a monastery to get away from the world for a while. She wasn't even specifically Catholic, but found the isolation refreshing.

Looking at the art, I don't really get horny vibes. I mean, the ladies in question aren't NOT attractive, but the vibe I get is more "comfy (which happens to mean skimpy tops and shorts)". We're not talking chainmail bikinis or Hellfire Club-style costuming, or even (which might otherwise have...

That's some impressive speedrunning. Let's see how long it takes for a sock puppet to show up...

With published campaigns, I think many of them are just too damn big. I started an East Texas University campaign last... February, I think, and we just finished the freshman year this February. That's a whole year for 1/4 of a campaign. Sure, our sessions aren't all that long (2-3 hours) and we...

I like to think that midichlorians are an indicator, but not a source. If you have strong force sensitivity, the midichlorians like hanging out in your blood.

The Blue Wizards starting magical traditions implies that they are teaching magic to others. And the impression I get about the Nazgûl is that they were sorcerers before they got the rings, and that that was one of the things that made Sauron pick them as recipients. There's also the fact that...

I do not believe that is true. We definitely see elves using magic in the books, such as the magic used by Elrond and Galadriel to protect Rivendell and Lothlorien – sure, the Rings are part of that, but not the entiriety. Boromir and Faramir had prophetic dreams. Beorn (and his kin?) can change...

I think there's a distinction between "soft science fiction" and "science fantasy". Soft SF still has the trappings of science fiction, with the conceit that we have figured out how to do things we don't know how to do today, while science fantasy is overtly supernatural. I mean, any definition...

You can still have quests for MacGuffins, but they'll likely be desired for something they allow rather than something they themselves do. One example would be the Darksaber – sure, it's a nice weapon if you can master it, but the true power lies in its symbolism for the Mandalorians. A more...

Draw Steel does something similar. Attacks are resolved using a "power roll" of 2d10+stat (which usually starts at 2 and hits 5 at max level). On an 11 or less you get a poor result, on 12-16 you get an OK result, and at 17+ you get a really good result. In many cases, attacks inflict various...

Funnily enough, back in the 80s Äventyrsspel (the creators/publishers of Dragonbane's predecessors) had the license from Iron Crown Enterprises to translate their MERP books into Swedish, and dual-stat them so they'd work with both MERP and Drakar och Demoner.