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I've never understood the fixation with smoking some authors had. You'd have characters who were little more than cyphers, created solely to illustrate whatever idea, philosophy, gadget or gimmick the author was interested in exploring. They had no hobbies, would never drink a cup of coffee or...

In relation to modules, are you familiar with tenfootpole.org? There are reviews of all sorts of modern "old school" adventures (and some other ones e.g. 5th edition). Expeditious Retreat Press have an Advanced Adventures line for OSRIC over at drivethru. Some of them are better than others...

That's a very impressive piece of thread necromancy! Another problem with the 3.5 system is if a monster had racial hit dice those were treated as being the equivalent to character levels, when they usually weren't. Thus a 2 hit dice lizardfolk with a +1 level adjustment (if that's what they...

That's the response I usually get when I bring this up. However, C&C includes stuff like "Dwarves find inter-breeding with goblinoids to be the worst of all sins" and "Half-orcs are unsavory and contentious individuals. As outcasts, they have few friends or allies, and often live miserable and...

I bought Reign of Discordia a decade ago for True20, and picked up the Traveller version on eBay a few years later. Hopefully the 5th edition version will do well, but I'm not likely to buy it.

I get a "best of both worlds" feel about Castles & Crusades, as an OSR game with a unified mechanic (although a +6 proficiency bonus seems more elegant to me than having DC 12 vs DC 18, even though the effect is exactly the same). What I don't like about it is the "traditional" fantasy racial...

No idea. Thousands, probably - not going to count them. Mostly D&D pre-painted minis but also some star wars spaceships and a few unpainted ones.

Some of these have already been mentioned. Marvin Gaye "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is technically a cover; I also really like the Credence Clearwater Revival version. Tina Turner "Proud Mary" Aerosmith "Come Together" Guns N Roses "Live and Let Die" Elton John "Pinball Wizard" Carpenters...

I've backed 120 kickstarters, of which 8 have failed to deliver (although in only one case did I end up with nothing at all). I'm still hopeful some of the 8 might come through, although most of them are clearly not going to. What has been more alarming is the number of kickstarter creators...

I did have a pathfinder (first edition) character that was a Paladin/Monk/Oracle/Ninja/Champion of Irori. As far as NPCs were concerned, he was a paladin. Nowadays I might try to add some Warrior Poet levels as well, to add Charisma to AC twice

Presumably the character will need that power up, since the rest of the party will abandon it (either from moral objections, or the impracticality of adventuring only at night, remaining within range of a coffin, only being able to pillage monster lairs if expressly invited in, can't cross...

Sacrifices to Asmodeus should definitely work, after a fashion. I don't own the adventure (somewhat counter-intuitively, this threads has made me more likely to get it - it is an excellent sandbox, it has a submarine whale!) but could you make it fit that the towns with the human sacrifices are...

I don't actually own that many albums - I'm more of a "greatest hits" sort of person (cue Alan Partridge comparisons). I put it down to not listening to much music growing up, so everything was new to me and it was difficult to know where to start. Anyway, in alphabetical order: Adele 21 Bruce...

I'm still playing in one weekly Pathfinder 1st edition campaign and GMing another. We even manage the dreaded high level games, admittedly by patching the system on the fly and refraining from using anything too broken.

I'm not sure that's really the crux of the matter, but it is a social encounter until the combat starts. You might have ruled differently. The DM in this case ruled that since the dagger couldn't be concealed in Player 1's hand (the dagger is too big / hand too small) he wasn't concealing it on...

I use the "roll for initiative" method unless I have a good reason not to. I think almost everybody here does the same, but we disagree on what is a good enough reason. Situation: There is a tense stand off. Player 1 is facing down Players 2 and 3. Player 1 has a dagger in his hand, but is...

I get the impression counter claims are very popular in US legal proceedings because, as I understand it, it's very hard to get your Costs back if you win the case. So unless you can include a counter claim in there somewhere all you get for winning is that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that you...

Thanks for the detailed post on playbooks. I had no doubt the term arose after a lot of careful consideration. (The more I find out about PbtA games, the more I appreciate just how much thought went into them, whereas my idea of game design used to be wondering whether you could combine Climb...

My objection to playbooks was that I didn't understand what they were, the term was being bandied about on the internet as if everyone knew what it meant, and in the end it became a "useful" shorthand that allowed me to reject any game that mentioned having them, sight unseen. (The only other...

If I ever get to play in a PbtA game, it will be as the GM, with no one at the table ever having played before (or even heard of PbtA, in most cases). It's less than ideal, but on the other hand that was the starting situation with pretty much every RPG I've run. We had no idea how to play...