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I don't need to review the book - I already know the answer on this one Imaro. Let's cover all stereotyping while we are here; Firstly, basically they have removed the sexism inherent to the 30s. Every other picture in the archetypes is a female character, there is no sexist art insofar as...

If you didn't care, you wouldn't reply. /rolls eyes Why not change your name to 'Crushedelf'? It would after all better suit your habit of playing the 'poor victim' of every 'mean forum member' that has the temerity to disagree with your arguments, or the willingness to express common sense...

Yes, it can be developed as the game progresses, nothing in that fact makes worldbuilding 'bad'. Yes, it can undermine a game, just as any other factor, poorly chosen and run by the GM or players can undermine a game. Likewise, it can greatly enrich a game in a way not other factor can, because...

If you want to complain on the basis of your assumption that I assumed you would storm off in a 'hissy fit' as you put it (which I did not) - try to put you point across on how you would react in a way which doesn't strongly imply you find such a ruling distasteful and intolerable enough to stay...

If you accept that rpg'ing is a form of storytelling, then it is actually very well established as to 'what they want'. Effective 'suspension of disbelief', 'immersion' (which serves the prior need) and 'catharsis', which is more complete when a good story achieves immersion. Characterisation...

This is a core issue with level-based character progression systems. In skill-based systems it is common to see both 'you can spend xp on what skills and abilities you used adventuring' and 'you can train up those skills and abilities you pay or arrange for someone/something to teach or help...

Yes, very interesting. I briefly met him in Las Vegas in the late 80's, and as very limited as my experience of him was (fan meets author...) he didn't appear to have any celebrity attitude about him. In fact he was most animated when talking about the game and the few things he recounted to me...

Always interesting how much more honest detail comes out when you block someone and then unblock them a few days later. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan Never heard of the fellow until I watched a program a couple of days ago in...

Social encounters and how the rules work are the most tricky to GM. But here you seem to be advocating that if an NPC rolls a nat. 20 on an attack roll, or another skill against a player, that it's fine that working as per RAW, but if it's a persuade check, you'd walk away from the table? With...

Oh come now, you have no objective proof that 'lack of world building' is a factor in 5th Ed's success. You have at most a feeling coloured by a pre-established point of view. You also didn't address my main point - that as FR is the default gameworld for 5th Ed. and there is already a huge...

Which has been made massively popular by Critical Role (amongst others) and their Tal'Dorei gameworld book flies off he shelves. Also, the Forgotten Realms is the default world and that already has a great deal of 3rd edition material whose sales are not captured in your consideration as it is...

That is of course subject to the style of game one runs. Detailed homebrew creations would indeed be a bridge too far for some. For myself, I like to have depth of culture, religion, race, heritage, geography, magic, social constructs and government types etc. I usually run a 'Session 0' or...

Unfortunately you have quoted a very specific comment I made about two pointed examples used and treated it as a general comment. It isn't. I was commenting directly to an individual who thought frequent weapon loss & swapping and the barbarian/civilised dichotomy as they put it should be...

1. Scifi writer and not a GM. He may be right about the kind of stories he wrote, but he was in control of where the characters went and how much needed to be known for that. Players rarely oblige with such 'script-on-rails linear progression through the story... 2. He never achieved the vast...

Anyway - back to the point of the thread for those of you rolling your eyes at the interim time wasting. The game is good, and evocative, and whilst naturally not flawless, is the best iteration of Conan so far in rpg'land. THAT is an opinion by the way, not a fact, just to be doubly clear...

@Elfcrusher I am not engaging with you any more. I don't see the point of communicating with someone who thinks a fake news "hostility and aggression" accusation (your words) doesn't equate to a de facto accusation of a personal attack. You still want to 'win' the argument - have it with yourself.

@Elfcrusher I don't have any financial stake, and you are confusing your right to have your own opinions with the non-existent right to have them regarded as facts by other people. All I have done is called out the fact that your opinions do not in fact, reflect the facts. If you are taking...

@Elfcrusher Let me deal withy each answered point in turn; 1. Your point isn't so much misunderstood as poorly explained. If you want a particular 'variable' on the character sheet - then state what that variable IS. You don't do so, at all, and when called out on what you do seem to say, you...

Sorry, but every rules-point you make in support of you not liking the game is utterly wrong. Firstly, the background generation system allows you to make a very high number of different characters everywhere on the spectrum between barbaric and civilised. You can have started as either one and...

Wrong. The Human Race. Race as a reference to insignificant genetic, appearance and cultural differences is an outmoded term, but we are talking about FANTASY races here. Outmoded for inter-human discussions about ancestry - sure. Still relevant to made up races from Scifi to Fantasy - yes...