Recent content by Tantavalist

Since there's nothing I can say that won't be taken badly and result in an escalating argument I'm going to do what I should have done one post ago and just bow out of this thread. I'm honestly surprised mods haven't locked this already and it's clearly coming. RIP Tekumel and WTF Prof...

The number of such Fascist groups active in the USA in that period (the KKK only being the best known) was so high that this alone doesn't signify anything. As a percentage of the adult male population they probably accounted for more Americans then than the percentage of such involved in the...

As someone who's been familiar with Temumel for two decades now this is what I suspect was the biggest influence on MAR Barker when he did these things. He was a convert to Islam, and took on board antisemetism from that route rather than via US-based neo-Nazi groups. It doesn't make what he...

What stage are you at in The Enemy Within? It's hard to top Empire in Ruins/Flames as the climax of a campaign so my method is to keep that as the ending and use other adventures to "pad out" the events. For instance, rather than Doomstones be the sequel to TEW I'd expand the quest for Sigmar's...

The most telling part of this question is that the poll uses Alignment to frame it. It genuinely doesn't give the option that non-D&D gamers would use by default, that the idea of having a notation attached to every character be it PC or NPC saying if they're Good or Evil is absurd. In my...

Use the revised Stars Without Number RPG rules. For Warhammer 40,000 you should also grab the Codex of the Black Sun supplement that adds improved/expanded rules for spellcasting and psychic demons (Shadows) to the system. Go to DrivethruRPG and there's even a free version that's hundreds of...

I love the backgrounds that Jerry comes up with and I've been looking forward to this coming out for a while. The original Godsend Agenda had a lot of potential but that wasn't fully explored and the ruleset left a lot to be desired. It sounds as if the first issue will be more than solved...

It can feel generic in a lot of cases when that happens, yes. But in the case of YZE the system was specifically built for post-apocalyptic survival in mind, so Twilight 2000 is actually a perfect fit. Other games maybe not so much- I'm inclined to take the setting of Coriolis and run that with...

For me, the defining moment like that was when I was six years old and got The Warlock of Firetop Mountain without even realising that it wasn't an ordinary book. Once I did work it out though... The next few years were a string of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks that I became just a little bit...

I haven't read Achtung Cthulhu specifically so there might be points where someone who has contradicts me. But I'm familiar with multiple versions of the Modiphius 2d20 system and in general it is... 1. What is the PC power level and growth? The 2d20 system tends toward a 'Pulp' or 'Action...

Why is there confusion about what to do with The One Ring RPG? The Darkening of Mirkwood pretty much showcases this and also rivals The Great Pendragon campaign for quality IMO. It's got a long and focused campaign arc, but also plenty of room for the GM to throw in other adventures. It's the...

It's very possible to run the Dreamlands as a distinct setting that's a standard fantasy world rather than somewhere that people from our world visit in dreams. It would be simple enough to remove the Dreaming-Isekai aspect and just have characters be born in the Dreamlands. The published...

That's pretty much it. Cold Iron is just Iron. And the origins of it being the bane of fairy beings comes from Irish myth. It's not hard to guess what ancient historical events the Celts driving the original rulers of Ireland away because they had iron might be a legendary retelling of. As has...

One of my more common GM mind-experiments is considering which of the many RPG systems I know would work best for a setting. The Culture has always been one of the ones I think about when it comes to Sci-Fi systems. As yet I've not come across any that struck me as a perfect fit without more...

Too many Sci-Fi franchises fall into the trap of trying to keep humans and human society as similar as possible to what modern people know to the point of making it "Modern Western Society with better toys". Your list here is almost a checklist of the thing that can't be allowed to happen for...