Recent content by Vancian Magic

I'm not a 4th Ed. hater... I just don't think any of its changes are truly that amazing, novel, or honestly even useful. Better than 3.5 ended up? Oh sure, no question. But still too crunchy and tactical for me to ever really embrace it as my one true fantasy game. Some of the rule...

Yesterday I ran my Labyrinth Lord game again. It's about 75% LL, with bits from all over (including S&W) and went very well. Best session I've had in ages, still loving the old school rules!

As before, not so much 'me' as 'we' since we're a pooled funds group when it comes to books.

I think it's fine. Really, as long as everyone in the group is mature (mentally mostly) enough to handle it, what's the problem? I wholeheartedly encourage it if people are inclined, and I play about 50/50 male and female characters myself depending on the game and the opportunities it'd provide.

Class of '88, and given it has just gone Christmas, likely almost to the day! That's kinda cool to realize.

Can't vote really, none of the options fit. Nor am I truly 'old guard' so much as I am just more keen on simpler games like BECMI/RC D&D. My issue is simply that 4th Ed. is too tactical, it is intrinsically a tactical combat system that they embraced and built around. Not a slight against it...

"I" didn't, but "we" did. One of those groups that pitches in on purchases. Opinion is mixed, but everyone wanted to at least give it a look.

I don't drink. Most of my group are also non-drinkers or only very light-drinkers. Every game in recent memory that has had a player drink has ended in spillage or some similar annoyance. So no booze now. It's been banned, just like the loathesome cancer stick and the irritating audience of...

If you're asking whether you should buy it and read it, then yeah sure. There's some good stuff. If you're asking if you should play-as-written, then gods no!

OD&D - It put down the foundation rules, and took a few steps to show how they might be varied and used. Sadly it's D&D's very own godfather of rock that no-one listens to anymore. BECMI - It presented the rules step-by-step for an easy learning curve. 1E - It demanded you step up your...

Honestly, if you're one of the lucky few to still have a playable copy of Marvel SAGA then use it! Nothing ultimately wrong with either HERO or M&M, but I have a soft spot and deep abiding love for Marvel SAGA... So if you own it, use it. Then, y'know, tell us all about your home-brew...

I'm kind of offended by the lack of a gnome...

For a 288 page count book there really doesn't seem to be much in it. Though I guess that's my general annoyance for them blowing up the Realms in order to make it more generic, then spending a good chunk of dead tree telling us all about how it got blowed up and has changed the setting...

Eeexcellent. Good on you.

No, not so much that anyone does... But simply that there's an overwhelming amount of posts that seem to think it is really a great idea, and more specifically that it's a really great idea when wizards are still offering precious little compared to what they promised we would receive.