Recent content by amethal

I'm a big fan of the Radiance House books, as they are very flavourful. Their binder class is very similar to the Tome of Magic one, presumably because they are both based on the same historical information, but with different vestiges.

I agree with all your criticisms of Solo. I also didn't like the grimdark version of Corellia we got at the start - I like more hope in my Star Wars stories. Yet for some reason I still enjoyed watching the film. It was fun, in a way the ST wasn't. So yeah, humans are amazing.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd edition doesn't have a class system, if it counts as OSR. It's surprisingly customisable, although not much variation within concepts - so an Elf based around archery is different to a Human based around sorcery, but two Elven archers are likely to be very similar.

The history of D&D editions is quite complicated. I don't really know where to start with this, because I'm not sure what you know already. Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know. OSE is based on the original D&D game, more specifically the "Moldvay" Basic and Expert sets, usually...

I assume the whole point of the Clone Wars was to kill off all the Jedi and thereby demonstrate the superiority of the Sith. Seizing power as the ruler of the galactic empire was a secondary consideration - it's not clear if the Emperor actually gets anything out of it other than it being a...

It's Little Trouble in Big Absalom, which is still available for free on Drivethru Little Trouble in Big Absalom There's also Threshold of Knowledge Looks like Paizo are charging 5 dollars on their own site, but keeping them free on Drivethru, which is odd. The "Quickstart" is the Beginner...

My last visit to my (F)LGS was even more depressing than usual. The upper floor, which has the RPG stuff, is now almost completely given over Warhammer 40K, in a large and impressive display. Nobody was actually playing Warhammer at the time, so I had the entire floor to myself. The RPG...

I've got the original version of the Halls of Arden Vul, but I've also been picking up the new "bullet point" version PDFs as they come out. I'm finding the bullet point layout much easier to follow, so much so that I've (almost) got over my resentment at paying twice for the same adventure. (I...

I assume with early White Dwarf the main issue was taking up as little space as possible in the magazine. Even then, some of their Traveller modules were really well laid out, given the space constraints.

Counting BECMI and AD&D 1e as the same game, my second RPG was Call of Cthulhu (3rd edition, I think).

Arden Vul looks like it could be an amazing campaign, but it would be hard enough to run in 1e/OSRIC due to the sheer size of the thing and the amount of background lore. I'm usually very amenable to running whatever people want to play, and I've got lots of experience converting things into...

Pathfinder 1e has several ways to get flight apart from casting spells. A number of Sorcerer Bloodlines eventually grant wings. The celestial bloodline grants wings at 9th level, but only for 1 minute / level /day. The draconic and infernal bloodlines grant wings at 15th level, with unlimited...

I went with 41-50, as I'm running Zeitgeist using Fate Core and we meet every 2 weeks or so. That's on the basis that my two Pathfinder 1e games count as "D&D" - they do to me. Otherwise it would be (way) more than 60 hours.

Raging Swan's "The Shunned Valley of Three Tombs" now has an OSR version. It's basically 3 very small dungeons (the tombs) with a bit of wilderness. Also, Raging Swan's "Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands" is a nice "clean out the keep" adventure. Takes a lot more than one session to do it all...

I had a string of kickstarter disasters not long after I started using it. E20 System Evolved (already mentioned above) Throne of Night (already mentioned above) City State of the Invincible Overlord (I don't think that was mentioned above, but there was a thread about the new kickstarter; it...