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My personal issue with higher level play, apart from rule bloat, was that it inevitably felt too different from earlier play. At a certain spot, the world isn't big enough and you have to cross unto other planes or prime material places as of yet unreached. And for some kind of reason, this...

Interesting thought experiment. My instincts would be to go "can't I just use only humans and focus on the culture briefs that no one will ever read?", but I'm trying to better my ways. I would guess that if you're picking something different, that's pretty much the point of the exercise, so...

Hmm, I always thought that FATE's ad-hoc aspects are basically "rulings", just with a vague roll beforehand. I don't think there's a real 180 degree opposite of an actual OSR game that's a real TTRPG. The OSR playstyle isn't that radically different from anything else, as much as some adherents...

Inline stat blocks or those in a dedicated monster manual/section? For the latter, I'd probably go with something like Name Evocative Description Role; Ecology; Size for example: Troll Insatiable Self-Healing Juggernauts Horde Striker; Forests & Mountains; Large The presentation could be...

This is an interesting thread to read. It seems a lot of the answers are about the "old-school experience", where the "renaissance" part is bringing that back to live. Quite like the start of it all, where the old books were brought out of storage again or 1:1 "retroclones" were made. For me...

I got someone in my Pathfinder group who helped with the Paizo translations, I think they are "crowd-sourcing" that a bit with a publicly availably glossary for all the background and rules terms. Honestly, I don't think the quality of the translations are in danger. There are plenty of...

My experience pretty much mirrors yours. I became disenchanted with TDE around that time -- I had GURPS, so the 4th edition seemed badly designed and veered from the zero-to-hero assumption of my formative years, and the background went Dark Lord all of a sudden. And this coincided with 3E...

As long as we're speaking about Monster Manuals and online offerings, what's a good approach with the current 4E situation to create humanoid enemies? I like the occasional monsters but prefer to populate the ranks of my villains mostly by humans, orcs etc. The powers offered by the Vault and...

Thanks for all the replies. As the Monster Vault came so highly recommended, I ordered it on saturday and received it today. It looks like it will come in pretty handy and should contain most of the monsters I'll need to play a standard fantasy campaign. And I've looked at my PHB again, it...

I tried 4E with my group shortly after it came out, and weren't too excited. Lots of new options to learn, major changes to the setting (FR), and yes, even the "video-gamey" complaint (which is a bit weird, considering that at that time I was the only one who wasn't a hardcore WoW gamer in the...

First, I think the usual thanks for Trailblazer are in line. I've heard about it quite a while ago, but the shiny lure of Pathfinder proved to much, and my group chose that for our recent try at playing 3E again… Needless to say, once we hit the medium levels, all the good things about new...

Well, my schedule during the week is pretty flexible, so that's not the real problem. I'll just have more time driving to and fro on weekends, and the games tend to last longer. Driving two hours for a four hour game, well...

I'll be residing in Edison for the rest of the year (at least), so if you need another player, I'd be interested. If the new company apartment isn't much smaller than previous ones, playing there would be an option, too.

For the next 6 months, probably quite a bit more, I'm going to spend my time in the US, as my company needs me there. I'll be located in either Edison or Metuchen, central NJ. I've got a car, so for a weekend game I'd be willing to travel a few miles, but as I've neglected my driving for the...

My campaign takes place a year after Yavin -- which ended quite differently. In the battle between Obi-Wan and Vader, old Ben defeated his old padawan and escaped the Death Star with young Skywalker in tow. Being a bit more careful, he managed to persuade Leie and the rest of the rebellion...

How come? D&D spells are more powerful and D&D fighters have much more combat options -- you'd have to spend a lot of your CPs just to get on par with their BAB and hit points. And this gets worse with every level added. And regarding the very first question: It really seems that any...

Sounds neat. I've got the BESM D20 book when it came out -- some nice ideas, but the balance between its BESM roots and the D20 add-ons wasn't quite worked out. Too many approaches to achieve the same goal (BAB, combat skills _and_ powers to increase your chance to hit is just an example). I...

Windows Movie Maker is supposed to have a half-way decent crawl implementation. It's missing all the other intro sequence that the Mac program offers (which I'm using myself for my Saga campaign), but that's just eye-candy anyway...

I don't know where I read it, but someone was trying to start a Ptolus campaign using a mixture between the standard D&D rules and IH. If I remember correctly, the premise was that the players are a new breed of heroes, i.e. the _only_ ones using the Iron Heroes core classes, while everyone else...

So, is the companion worth it? We're not talking about the "Lannith Companion" you can find online, right? Based on your glowing praise in the BESM:Ptolus thread, I instantly ordered the base book (it was on sale). And it's really a great rule set, although the classes are a bit too specialized...