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I think you're just making the same discovery I did, that after playing the latest thing for awhile, those old games are still pretty damn good.

My character has no interesting background because the interesting events of his life are ahead of him. I don't give a crap about an interesting background, only an interesting future.

Yes, in the same way that a player who is a better tactical thinker has an advantage and a player who better understands the game rules has an advantage.

I posted something, then changed by mind. The SW quote was just filler.

These aren't the droids we're looking for. Move along. Move along.

"You must spread some Experience Points around . . . " :erm: Would some kind soul please give Imaro an Experience Point for me?

Could someone please hit Hobo with an experience point for me?

Ring of trollish regeneration This cursed ring regenerates lost hit points at the same rate as a troll's regeneration; however, each time the ring is used to restore hit points, the wearer begins to turn into a troll: the weater's flesh turns green and warty, the nose grows, the fingers and...

Did it ever hold true? It certainly wasn't the case for me. The first settings I read, and on which I based my earliest efforts t homebrewing, were Blackmoor and the Wilderlands, where civilization is sometimes cruel and frequently venal and everything else is worse. The same was true of my...

I think you may get some use out of this. I want my next character to be a bottom knocker.

4. Owlbadger: The product of a gnomish magical experiment gone horribly awry, the owlbadger matches the sharp beak of a burrowing owl with the vicious claws of a badger. The owlbadger's fearsome reputation for wanton violence against monsters many times its own size led one sage to comment that...

Okay, from now on, we act out combat. Until someone loses an eye.

Indeed. I think it would be hard to argue against the notion that, with respect to the diversity of options available to gamers, this is anything but a golden age of roleplaying games. Sure, that's part of running a reactive sandbox setting. The adventurers brush up against the webs, and the...

Slower than walking and pulls you downstream past the Louvre. No one in the setting has the legs to jump from one side of the Seine to the other. Even on horseback. Slower than running or jogging and probably walking as well, unless you're a sculling champion with a racing shell. And they are...

Can someone please drop an XP pemerton for me for "insipid conch-passing." :D I think that may reflect some selection bias; people who are likely to enjoy 'conch-passing games' aren't likely to complain, while those with no interest don't complain because they play something else.

In my campaigns, I plan situations, not plots. Typically that means I have a place, I have characters, I have a conflict, and I have motivations; what I don't have is an expected or desired outcome beyond presenting the players and their characters with choices to make.

I already adderessed that - you may be able to Seduce someone who can help you rig a temporary bridge, but you cannot Seduce your way across thin air. That depends, of course, on the availability of someone with the appropriate skills and materials to Seduce. Absent that, your character's...

No. Not even a little bit.

The bridge is out. The adventurers can jump the gap, on foot or on horseback. The relevant skills are Acrobatics and Horsemanship. They can try to span the gap with a log. Strength check to move it into place without if falling into the chasm; if they have a horse they can probably do something...

that's a good idea . . . hey, didn't I read something like that already in this thread? :) Whereas I often have a pretty detailed notion of what my cities look like. My Paris map doesn't show every alley, and it doesn't show every drover's cart and merchant's stall either, but the assumption...