Recent content by Bayushi_seikuro

I agree. One mechanic I thoroughly enjoyed was having a blank world map and a list of sites/locations for the players and GM to place on the map. It might also be the first system I experienced where you built the characters together, out of the same point pool.

The best I remember was a 1e Seventh Sea campaign. It was a combination of their setting with the old cartoon show Pirates of Dark Water. I was a pirate from Avalon (English), who was also a member of the Merchants Guild - so when we weren't robbing ships, we were delivering cargo and...

My favorite take on orcs is still Orkworld by John Wick. It began when he was still at AEG and was going to play in the company D&D game and wanted to be an ork bard. He was told 'You can't. Orcs are evil and are just speedbumps on the way to the bad guy'. He said, if I can write you...

My reluctance with Eberron came from primarily being overwhelmed by the setting. I run into that issue with a lot of settings. What it took to get over was having a friend who really loved the setting explain that it does so much, you really need to decide what kind of story you want to tell...

Looking back, I think what I feel was... 'bad' is subjective, but I'd say hurt with UA, was the character creation variant, where, let's say, a Fighter would roll 10d6 keeping the highest three for Strength, etc. I grew up with the old basic '3d6 in order', so UA allowed for some 'unnaturally'...

I think Toril is interesting that, even in a world of 'known' deities and pantheons, some people continue to not be Believers, or maybe just donate when they need a special favor - the old Grey Box talked about it, even how people would sacrifice to Umberlee to avert her wrath before a voyage.

Having grown up with the old Gold Box games, I have a soft-spot for the Dalelands and Moonsea. I'd enjoy a Cormyr book, but I'm used to them being more of an offscreen Good Guy kingdom that was squeezing the Dales from one side while the Zhents were an Evil Theocracy squeezing them from the...

I don't get the sense they've abandoned it - in fact, I'd say this set up, where Matt can play D&D, frees him up to work more on Daggerheart. And from where I sit, I always got the sense Daggerheart and Obscura were born of the same time as the OGL debacle, where suddenly every company had a...

For me, like any other genre, it takes many things. I just got home from work and it's late so I'll just give a couple examples I personally like: 1) the old Marvel FASERIP system. I don't think it worked as well as intended, but one thing they had that made it 'feel Marvel' was the Karma...

I agree. If you just go back and look at the various and varied settings and systems he's used on Dimension 20, I doubt anything generic will be coming out

I'm old. This sounds much more in-line with the way I remember the Purple Dragons being represented in the old original Grey Box Forgotten Realms, and feels much easier to plug into any campaign that has knightly orders. YMMV

Don't forget - Orkworld started out as a four-thousand word essay so that his boss would let him play an ork in the AEG company D&D game. It does have some cool concepts I enjoy in there, like the blank map that players and GM place locations on or building a party out of the same pool of points

I think all this talk overlooks a very key element: No company can tell you what to do at your table. Even if Dark Sun is never published again, no one is keeping anyone from running Dark Sun. People that want to tell Dark Sun/etc tales will find the time and effort to put that game together...

I feel the Great Daryl Nathan (RIP) was almost a West Michigan version of Wesley Willis, minus the schizophrenia. My second choice to share - if I could find it - was this guy named Lee Goodman, who had a karaoke show on public access where he often was the singer. Guy was a massively rotund...

There's only one answer for me growing up in West Michigan - a tribute to the Great Daryl Nathan.