Search results

Er, actually this is a common technique. See: The Ring, Die Hard (the climax is the guy from Family Matters shooting the big dude, technically), The Return of the King (the climax is all that stuff in Hobbit Town)...Alien after the ship explodes. Aliens after the colony explodes...and so on. I...

There is a difference between a "power fantasy", which has negative connotations, and a mere "fantasy." (In that it is an expression of imagination) I think the problem here is that "power fantasy" is being used by its advocates without the negative connotation, but this isn't recognized by...

Man, the Bhaalspawn didn't take down Sarevok just as Gorion got wasted, did he? No! Did they win against Irenicus in that first battle in the streets of Athkatla? Nope! They had to go and do sidequests for a while before they had the mojo to challenge their recurring villains. Xykon might win...

Indeed. I thought from the start of the Azure City Besieged arc they were going to lose this fight. Not only is it desirable to have Hinjo lose his army and join the Order, but the AC rift is the smallest of them. Easy enough to demand Xykon keep going after gates. Plus the Linear Guild is in...

It all comes down to this: Some people want to play John McClane. John McClane gets the living hell kicked out of him in Die Hard. By the end of it he's been ripped to blood pieces, he's exhausted, he's murdered a dozen people, and he's desperately, insanely terrified of the situation he's in...

One of the best in the strip's history. Definitely continues the evolution from a comic "just about D&D jokes" to one with actual characters we care about.

Very good. One of the best strips so far, and that's saying a lot. I like that Xykon's re-established as a threat; Redcloak was stealing some thunder there for a while. Now they both have thunder.

Few things do it so well, with so much attention to detail and so many plot hooks. Anti-heroic? Nay, sir, nay. If anything, Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu are some of the most heroic settings on the market. It's regular people willingly destroying themselves for the safety of mankind. Delta...

The annoying thing about D20 CoC was that most everything was fine, except... 1. Attack and Defense Options. What are these things even supposed to represent? What are they for? What purpose do they serve? 2. The feats. God, the feats. Why couldn't they be investigative or horror themed? It...

I agree with everything else, but I'm not sure "adversarial GMing" is well suited to tactical games either. I would think the fun in GMing a tactical game is providing a heck of a challenge legitimately, not gaming the system, tricking the players, etc, into defeat. I know if I ran a tactical...

Then they are bad DMs. I guess what I don't understand is...if the group is so dysfunctional you need minis to resolve disputes, why bother playing with them in the first place? Hmm, I suppose one trick is- if you're not playing with miniatures, don't act like you are. Don't give exact...

In this case, a good GM would say, "Oh, okay, sorry, forgot to explain the local architecture. You might want to try setting up in an abandoned building overlooking the street instead..." (suggests roughly equal alternative without violating setting principle; hello simulationists!) Or, I'd...

I'm struggling to even see what the value of miniatures would be for my game...(not including the fact that we do it via a chat room...) I mean, combats are over so fast, and are generally so cinematic and loose, that I doubt there'd be any use for them. But I'm not playing D&D. If I was, I'd...

Yes. The real trick was blending the Cthulhu Mythos so convincingly, so seamlessly with UFO myths. It's a worked example of putting the Big C into anything, much like various efforts to put mythos overtones over real historical events. If you're not into the Cthulhu Mythos enough to see how...

Changeling: The Lost. It sounds very good so far, and I love the premise. The Dresden Files RPG. It uses one of my new favorite systems, and I'm working my way through the books right now. They're good, quick, mindless reads.

Isn't Dune staggeringly, impossibly, incredibly out of print? I second the recommendation of looking at the Witchcraft PDF- though I don't actually like the default Unisystem rules. It's Cinematic that earned my undying devotion.

This is the list of "games I like", with some notes on why. 1. The Unisystem Family. There are two primary variants- "Cinematic" and "Classic", both are basically the same (Cinematic is a stripped down version of Classic). Used in: All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Conspiracy X, Witchcraft, Armageddon...

Er...I guess I'll go cancel my 3-year old Buffy RPG game... (Seriously, it's a fantastic game, and it is definitely playable)

In the old version, sure, but Bone Pickers and Serfs all have useful skills and abilities in 2nd. Maybe not in combat, but WFRP is one of those games where combat isn't expected to be a regular occurrence, but more of a terrifying failure of avoiding combat.

If someone is shooting arrows at you, you should run and hide under something. Actually that's probably a good plan for most threats in the WFRP world.