Durckad Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Hot Take: I hate wandering monsters and I never use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Interesting interview with Marc Miller, the creator of Traveller, the oldest SF RPG in existence. Traveller turns 45 years old today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 7/8/2022 at 6:25 PM, Durckad said: Hot Take: I hate wandering monsters and I never use them. How do you get around players abusing rest mechanics to heal up and get spells/etc then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durckad Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 17 minutes ago, Martell Spy said: How do you get around players abusing rest mechanics to heal up and get spells/etc then? I should be more specific here, I think. Wandering monsters are fine, but random encounters are what I'm talking about here. IE rolling on a table to determine what they encounter. Sometimes, very rarely, I'll use random encounters, but usually only when players do something stupid or spend too much time dicking around in a dangerous area. Or I'll have a "random" encounter to show them what sorts of creatures are living in an area. But yea, wandering monsters, good. Random encounters, blech. Martell Spy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 (edited) A couple of years back, a company was set up calling itself "TSR" (the name of the company that created D&D in 1974 and was discontinued in 2000 after being bought out by Wizards of the Coast) and announced it was launching a new edition of the 1980s Star Frontiers SF game. The company immediately declared that it would be doing "old-school" gaming as if that was some kind of revelation (the OSR movement being at least 22 years old at this point and, for the most part, not trash). Wizards of the Coast, who own both the TSR trademark and copyright to Star Frontiers, seem to have watched this unfold bemusedly whilst sending C&D letters behind the scenes. Then they actually got their hands on a playtest copy of Star Frontiers and immediately called in Hasbro's legal department to drop a massive nuclear bomb of legal action on the project. The preliminary filing is over 100 pages long. The actual playtest has now leaked and wow: The filing thread is crazy on its own: Edited September 10, 2022 by Werthead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Two hours of playing Arkham Horror at Chicon8 was enough to reignite my desire for more table top gaming. I've been trying to get back into The Lord of the Rings LCG, since you can play solo, but wow is it difficult. I only have the original core set. I know there is revised core set, but a lot of expansions seem to be out of print, so I'm not sure if it's worth pursuing. In the meantime, I decided to expand my cards for A Game of Thrones LCG 2nd edition, which also has a lot of out of print sets, but I was able to find a decent amount of sets on Amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Solid video on getting into tabletop RPGs in the first place and gently positing the point that there is more to them than D&D (but D&D is fine as well!). Nice song about halberds as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 New arrival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 I've never played D&D (though I rolled a character for a game in uni that never got started) and don't know where in the UK this castle is, but an actor acquaintance (recently wrapped his part in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon) is DMing this: I don't know much about it, figured it would be of interest here though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 Our Eberron campaign co-starting @Mentat and @Gertrude hit 50 sessions last week, and we're going strong! Week, Mentat, Luzifer's right hand and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 39 minutes ago, SpaceChampion said: I've never played D&D (though I rolled a character for a game in uni that never got started) and don't know where in the UK this castle is, but an actor acquaintance (recently wrapped his part in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon) is DMing this: I don't know much about it, figured it would be of interest here though. Gotta say, i dislike this dude. "All of the LA DMs". Get fucked bro. Poobah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 "LA Dungeon Masters" cringe aside, he certainly knows the value of a good table. Although it struck me after it was installed that it seems a bit closer to one wall than the other, which is odd. Might just be the perspective. Also, the monster flex of casually dropping that Larry fucking Elmore has painted a portrait of your PC (I also enjoy the fact both Mananiello and Diesel seem to have very basic PCs which they think are the most amazing things ever, it's kind of endearing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I misread "portrait of your PC" for a moment and tried to figure out what a compute had to do with Elmore. I think it's the perspective throwing you regarding the table. If you compare to the windows, or the entrance into the space, it seems pretty dead in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 It's not D&D, but it is tabletop gaming, and I couldn't find a separate topic for it so I decided to ask here first. Is anyone into Warhammer? I've been thinking about it for 25 years and there were always some reason why I couldn't do it at that moment. Either I didn't have the money or didn't have the time or some other hobby caught my eye. Finally, I have decided to take the plunge and go for it. Since I prefer fantasy to SF settings I went with Age of Sigmar. Skaven seem to me to be the most interesting so far and I loved Dwarfs ever since I read The Hobbit so I got some of those miniatures to start with. At the moment, I'm not planning to collect huge armies or play in tournaments or anything like that. If that comes in time, it's great but at the moment I just want to try something new and play around with painting these minis and getting better at that. The question is is there anyone else here who's into it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 10 hours ago, baxus said: It's not D&D, but it is tabletop gaming, and I couldn't find a separate topic for it so I decided to ask here first. Is anyone into Warhammer? I've been thinking about it for 25 years and there were always some reason why I couldn't do it at that moment. Either I didn't have the money or didn't have the time or some other hobby caught my eye. Finally, I have decided to take the plunge and go for it. Since I prefer fantasy to SF settings I went with Age of Sigmar. Skaven seem to me to be the most interesting so far and I loved Dwarfs ever since I read The Hobbit so I got some of those miniatures to start with. At the moment, I'm not planning to collect huge armies or play in tournaments or anything like that. If that comes in time, it's great but at the moment I just want to try something new and play around with painting these minis and getting better at that. The question is is there anyone else here who's into it? We've got three different tabletop gaming things going on at the moment (RPGs, board games and the D&D OGL disaster which spawned some general D&D side-discussion) but nothing exclusively on wargames/miniatures. It's probably more board game than RPG-based, but no great shakes. For Warhammer, I'm reasonably interested in 40K's lore and fiction, I'm not really interested in Age of Sigmar and I don't have a huge interest in the tabletop game. My friend had two relatively complete armies (Empire and Elves, I believe) when we were at school and played a fair bit of it then, but I got annoyed after spending years selling Games Workshop products and seeing their insane markups, which really price-gouged the hell out of young kids. Recently I have gotten into the BattleTech miniatures game, which is decidedly cheaper (you only have 4-8 units per side, rather than dozens) and much more in-depth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 13 hours ago, Werthead said: I got annoyed after spending years selling Games Workshop products and seeing their insane markups I get it that they are making a lot of money, but fortunately I'm in a position to not worry about that. Either way, I'm not planning on spending some insane amount of money over a short period of time. I'm just dipping my toe in these waters, not planning on deep sea dive just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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