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I don't mind them, depending on context. The original Deadlands had them for use by hexslingers - gambling cardsharps that use them to power their magic - and it worked really well there. I also used to enjoy Torg back in the day, because of the cards in that game too. In the main though, I'm...

It's also card-based to some extent now too, which I didn't really care for.

There was a new version out recently (well, in the last couple or so years), but I wasn't that impressed. I was always more in favour of the classic to straight type game, and the new version leans heavily into the zap style game. It also jettisons a lot of what made Paranoia, Paranoia (the...

The part I was replying to was:

We've used Dex as a modifier to hit, Str as a modifier to damage (with all weapons) before. We don't always use it, but no-one's entirely upset with it and some really like it.

Fireball = Furyfire. Also, in basic D&D, there were races as classes, so you never got any dwarven clerics, halfling mages, or whatever. That all came with AD&D.

@Charlaquin do you mind if I ask what your GM style is if it differs so much from Mercer's? I'm honestly a little perpelexed by people that aren't GMing like Mercer; as I said above, it's been the style we've used for 30-40 years now. I thought that was the standard GMing style, and expected...

Thanks @Oofta I think in that case that I might indeed be Matt Mercer after all. Huh.

I've never watched any Critical Role (I prefer to play rather than watch others play), so I have no idea what Mercer's GM style is, but from what I can tell from this thread, it appears to be "does accents for NPCs" and "describes in detail." Which makes me wonder how others are playing / GMing...

And rains are for the wrong side of the Pennines (ie Lancashire).

Is there really any such thing as a non-internet using customer base these days, especially in the younger generation? If the internet had been around when I was a kid, I'd have been googling D&D after seeing it the shops before I ever put any money down, and that's if I'd never come across it...

For the time, maybe, but we're taling nearly 40 years ago now. Time's moved on, as have different media. The internet can reach a lot more people than any store can, for example. Podcasts and Twitch channels probably provide better access these days. Plus, when we started playing, there weren't...

raises hand. Saw the D&D stuff in a local games shop (Back when Games Workshop sold mostly historical wargames fgures, boardgames, chess sets, wooden puzzles etc, and didn't have their own range of games or figures). D&D basic boxed set and AD&D were on the shelves and looked interesting, so I...

I agree. CG would be more anarchist, Communism would probably be LN or LG if it's the utopian sort. Liberal democracy probably more like Neutral.

Nah, CG would steal another pie for the guy's kids.

Completely agree with Oofta here. Any alignment can be a problem if a player wants it to be. And any are fine if the player wants it to be.

And as I remarked in my reply to your PM, there's no primary source that mentions it, there are no contemporary commentaries that mention it (that I'm aware of), and consider this: What do you think the Church would make of it? At the very least, even if it was a dying practice, there'd be...

Oh that should be easy to find out then, I'm based in Toronto, and my mentor studied and taught in Quebec, so she'll almost certainly know him. I'll have a chat to another of my professors when I was doing my dissertation, he specalised in medieval law and economics, so he would be aware both of...

I'm not finding anything about him, what university did he teach at?

Could you give me his name anyway? I have colleagues that might remember him, and I know several people who have studied this area in quite some depth who I could ask about what he may have written about the subject, so they would be able to comment on the sources he used to come to this rather...