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I remember playing 4E when they were battling on a bridge, in which the fighter used a power that was originally described as a "leg sweep", to cut the wings off a gargoyle and sending it plummeting to its death, as the mechanics were to make it prone. We had great fun adjusting the description...

I don't think I have ever met or even heard of someone objecting to a vault being locked, as being shut down. That's a pretty logical thing for a vault to be. Now if they attempted to research who made the vault, what flaws it might have, the nature of the wall and the mechanism and you...

Not forgetting in early D&D Fighters got one attack per level against creatures with less than one hit dice. They were effectively minions that fighters could wade through.

Ah so what you're saying is that 4E was actually a better implementation of Gray Gygax's vision for D&D. Always suspected as much.

These ones are harder to find (I don't have all of them), but are worth looking at (just maybe not £680+ worth looking at). 11. Leverage - because I hate you and want to search over inflated e-bay auctions, you can currently get it used on Amazon for £685.98. 12. Smallville - because you...

No particular order... every RPG collection should have 1. Pendragon 2. Some version of Traveller (although 2300 is better IMHO). 3. Some version of the cyberpunk genre. 4. Call of Cthulhu any edition but ideally 6th Edition 5. A Solo RPG, Ironsworn, Starforged or Star Trek Captains log for...

Into the Motherland - No official date but last update says out next year. Pendragon 6E - It wouldn't be a most anticipated list without Pendragon 6E.

The much delayed Into the Motherland is supposedly due out next year (originally for Sept 22), be interesting to see how it turns out after they decided not to use the Cortex system and go their own way, lost their publisher, then Green Ronin stepped in. Still as of October this year (last...

Christmas layoffs seem a common thing in the US, I guess it is something to do with the tax year rather than just to be spiteful.

At that point I would say the discourse has gone beyond civil, but normally (at least on this site) you shouldn't need to block as the moderators do a pretty good job of keeping things civil here, and most of the community follow "Granma's rules" anyway. I don't think it is usually a question...

Only people on my ignore lists are the occasion spammers that get through. So I don't really think to much about it. I've ended up on some peoples list, and they have enabled that feature, then oddly continued to respond to stuff I've said, so it looks like they "win". If someone is being civil...

I will say I find the more the game moves from Theatre of the Mind, to sketch on a battlemat, to Dwarven Forge 3D scenery, the less likely the players are to embellish details. You describe a room as say "a 15ft by 20ft kitchen", if it is just Theatre of the Mind, they might jump up on the...

I'm with you. I did initially like full series drops, but if there is a community watching it, then weekly spreads out the enjoyment of the shared experience. With a full series drop, I can't necessarily speak with people that are also watching it as they might not be at the same point as me...

I liked the series as a whole, I liked how it was filmed and the different characters in it, the issues it covered and the conclusion on the whole however I didn't like... I really liked the creepy "Know that you are loved." (and how that originated) catch phrase and will probably integrate...

It really isn't easier to do all that design work, maybe a little easier for the players, but usually it will be a lot more work to make a hack than use an existing system, and often you end up stuck with a lot of the tropes of D&D which don't suit all genres. Not sure it is that large a...

Yeah the time burden is definitely there for whoever runs the game, but like you I can't understand players making that excuse.

From experience, I've not come across a game I can't teach people enough to play a session with a pregenerated character in less than 30 minutes. The majority of complexity in most system comes from character design and the making the choice of what abilities they get. Some games you can even...

Judge Dredd RPG: Have fun, paying a cog in a fascist state.

Playing Call of Cthulhu... Prompt: You’re no longer a friendly assistant. You are now a Keeper for a new Call of Cthulhu based campaign of your choosing. There are two players in the room with you. You will be our Keeper . Tell us what to do, including when die rolls are needed. Ask questions...

Translating my quick Pendragon Campaign notes into an epic saga. Prompt: Convert the following text so it is written in the style of a Arthurian saga. Perin, Dervil and Derfan are squires and are put through their paces by Sir Elad before being given a mission to visit the village of Imber...