Recent content by Doctor Futurity

My recollection was that players who had paralyzed PCs often just assumed more control of a secondary or other tertiary character (or even a henchman) while waiting for the group to get to the point where appropriate cure removal could happen. We very rarely played for hours with someone bored...

Everything you just wrote there made me suddenly feel really damned old, and I have to go find a wiki page to understand what you are talking about.....gah!

People reacted so negatively that they dropped midichlorians, even if they crop up these days stealthily in some shows. Even if they had developed it more, it would still be equivalent to handwavium, as despite suggesting something aligned with mitochondria or something, there's still no...

I just moved recently and uncovered all my Pathfinder 1E books. Good memories, and I have decided to drag them out of retirement to run another game soon.

Greyhawk will make an excellent sample setting for the new edition. I have never been one to appreciate its appeal (I'm one of those contrarian old grognards who did not happen to like Greyhawk overly much) but it's sufficiently general in purpose and can work really well as a demonstration on...

As PHB covers go this is one of the more dynamic ones and I rather like it. I actually kind of like the 5E PHB cover currently, and also liked the 4E PHB cover, but was never a fan of the faux grimoire look of 3rd edition, and despite being a huge stan for AD&D 2E I concede it had All The Worst...

Decades of experience have taught me that gold is never a true motivator, it is instead an intermediary currency for what the players may really want. If you build mechanical effects for gold expenditure that lead to XP (a problem in and of itself if you are using a milestone system to level up...

I had to read this because I am enamored at the idea that someone got 3.0 and stayed with it for two and a half decades. I envy you! To this day I wish I hadn't made the jump from 3.0 to 3.5, even if it did fix many issues I had with 3.0, because the additional cruff of 3.5 changed the...

Maybe she doesn't know Fate. I had Fate for a while and could not get in to it's mechanical design or style, so would never even think of it as a solution to anything.

I've played wizards, warlocks and sorcerers that were sufficiently distinct that having individual classes made the experience worthwhile. You combine them and you lose that granularity. Better to provide all three classes and let the game table/GM decide if he wants to limit one or more in the...

I guess in the end TFT and GURPS are both exemplars of the "niche within a niche of a cottage industry" among RPGs, steeped in design ethos that date back decades. Fifteen years ago I still thought GURPS could take off if redone and represented the right way. Today....nope. It's core design is...

I'm all in on Tales of the Valiant, will have a good campaign under my belt with that version by the time D&D 6 arrives and I can then give that one a spin. I do not foresee changing unless they do some really weird stuff with the new edition, given my track record of playing D&D continuously...

I'll need to check Sword World out. Do you know if it was localized in English? Hmmmm I guess I can be a good internet person and search around... EDIT: I see a World guide/core book on Amazon.

So the wight is no longer going to be portrayed, or reflect the concept of the barrow wight, or the draugr, then? Hmmmm. I mean, it can still be that, of course, but surprised that its actual original reference isn't addressed at all in some way. Agreed though, something about this approach...

I'll preface this comment by saying I like the new Monster Core and I think Paizo is doing a good job trying to disintguish their brand of Golarion and Pathfinder from D&D. But, my observations in a nutshell include: it's got a problem of "implied setting by absence" in that the things missing...