Search results

Got some octopi and worms and elephant trunks that're gonna disagree with you. ;) So, clearly, meat without bones is functional, if wierd; bones without meat just lie there. Of course, using that analogy/terminology, we can expand it in some interesting ways. "octopus gaming" is the quest to...

Can you articulate how the terms "fluff" and "crunch", applied as an absolute dichotomy, implies/enshrines/promotes one playstyle, and what that playstyle is? It's not obvious to me, and it hadn't occurred to me prior to the above-quoted post of yours. And it's not clear to me what you...

As someone pointed out, because the crunch of the PrC is a perfect match for a bit of fluff you already have in your setting. Heck, that's how i use core classes, too--nobody in my setting would refer to someone as an "unfettered" or "witch", even if they had levels in those classes--they'd be...

And "crunch" implies dry, uninteresting, complexity. No, "game fiction" is not a synonym for "fluff". Many things are fluff that are not game fiction--the description of what an elf looks like in D&D3E, frex. [It has no game-mechanical effect, so is not crunch.] Game fiction is just one...

I store them on edge/end, just like a book, with their contents still in them. With the exception of ones that were already beat up before i got them, and one box set that travelled around in my backpack for a campaign, they're in basically the same condition as when i got them. Other than...

I thought this was going to be an appeal for such, rather than an ad. So, here's the best version i've seen of an intro to RPGs: Uncle Figgy's Guide to Roleplaying for Non-Roleplayers, http://www.dragondogpress.com/unclefiggy/guides.htm . His other guides are quite good, too.

Not exactly. But it seems like what you're really asking is if we've played without easy access to healing magic. I've never had a shortage of clerics/priests in the games i've run, but i've also never had a healing cleric in the games i've run. The players have always chosen to play clerics of...

Well, that sort of depends on what you mean. The actual document is a 203p book, but that has a lot more than houserules--it's also a primer on the setting, and summary of some existing rules. It breaks down as follows: 35pp of setting info, ripped almost straight from Al Qadim and Land of...

Yeah, the "humans are the up-and-comers, while all the other races are has-beens or also-rans" does get a bit old. I didn't realize it at the time, but now that you mention it, i think that's one of the reasons i like Arcana Unearthed: it assumes that verrik (psi-adept humans) and humans are the...

Two comments: i know for a fact that i've spent at least 2/3rds that amount on RPG books (keep track for insurance purposes), and i am *not* a wealthy person. It's just the primary beneficiary of what disposable income i *do* have. Secondly, i'm not all that surprised. A coworker bought his new...

Well, let's try saying this in a different way: cost=FREE benefit=?? so, is ??>=FREE ? If so, then it's worth it. IOW, unless you think a PDF RPG product can have negative value, the answer is "yes, it's worth it", because, at the very least, you're getting what you paid for it (nothing, that is).

One: Doh! Somehow, my sleepy brain conflated yaks and ox and ibex, and got them all mixed up. Probably threw in some of the heavier gazelle-family herd animals that *are* raised as domestic and semi-domestic animils in the Middle East area--things like the addax & oryx. Two: The yak-men in Al...

Elves that aren't better/more-powerful than humans (IMHO, the proper solution for elves in D&D3E was not to de-power them, and in the process de-flavor them, but to give them a LA) comic-relief races. In a realistic world, you don't all laugh and say "ah, shucks, they're just kender--they can't...

Well, looking at the list, a couple things come to mind: shaman/spirit-walker totemic warrior Of course, with out descriptions/definitions, it's pretty hard to say. Frex, you list "barbarian". That's good--but if it's basically like the D&D3E barbarian (i.e., berserker by any reasonable...

Well, i haven't really looked at eth new Complete... books very closely, but if, as it seems, they parallel the D&D3E splatbooks reasonably well, i think i've got a large part of an explanation: D&D3E core already covers many, if not most, of the bases for physical, non- or semi-magical...

In my old homebrew, there was evolution, and there was divine provenence--and they interacted. So, faeries arrived at sentience naturally--heck, there very existence was a spontaneous natural happening. ("Natural" in a world with magic, of course.) Some of the older races evolved naturally, just...

Has someone used it in any other way in this thread, and i missed it?

Strangely enough, that's a non-gamer, non-geek, real-world reference (to my physique), and has nothing to do with RPGs. I just borrowed the appelation that someone else applied, when i first needed a handle, lo those many years ago. I've never played an elf in D&D (or any other RPG), nor do i...

Now i'll have to dig a bit, and see if my recollection is correct. However, my recollection was that tehy came from somewhere in the Fertile Crescent/Middle East/Afghanistan area--you know, where yaks are a big deal. If you don't want to wait for me (and it's likely i'll forget before i get...

Can you give an example on a non-lazy choice, one that doesn't rely on well-established tropes, or twists them significantly? 'Cause if it ain't mythology-inspiried humanoid animals, and it sure isn't the blandified Tolkien-derived races of D&D3E, what else do we see showing up in fantasy RPGs...