Recent content by Desdichado

Oh, I've had Black Sails for a long time and I've read it before. That's not a bad idea, though. I was a little surprised that their website didn't have a recommended play order, though.

I noticed that the Return to Freeport compilation (Pathfinder style adventure path written by Green Ronin in their flagship setting from back in the day) was on sale 30% pdf on DriveThru, so I picked it up. I'm thinking of pulling up a lot of my old stuff and reading the adventures at least (and...

Based on the comments on that reddit thread, it's likely literally ONE GUY using sock puppets. If that's actually true, he can be dealt with. Most content providers, and even the police, don't allow online harassment.

It's not so much that I mind dragonborn, at least as they were in late 3e and 4e, but rather that I think that they're too different to have been integrated into normal D&D settings. Especially D&D settings that already existed. I'm totally OK with the idea that Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk...

What an astonishing revelation! There's individual variation within humanity? Boggles the mind.

But they don't. Returns for reboots, rehashes and endless sequential iterations are way down. Compare returns for, for example, the new Jurassic World reboot compared to the original Jurassic World movie, much less the original Jurassic Park movie (adjusted for inflation.) Granted, that's less...

No, the public doesn't really demand it. The studios just play it super safe and refuse to take a risk on new properties, or they bork opportunities for new things to take off. The public is actually rather tired of Hollywood serving us warmed up leftovers. Few of these reboots and retreads are...

It's non fiction in the sense that fiction as we know it hadn't been invented yet. It's really not in the same category at all as a novel. Also, I don't know when the last time is that you were in a physical library with physical books, but mythology is never filed with fiction. I assure you...

And then he wrote Orkworld...

I suspect it's a characterization of them asking for money in the first place for a legal project that everyone who's familiar with the legalities of it says is a Hail Mary at best. It is a bit shady to ask for money to make a Hail Mary legal play. Maybe not dishonest, unless they're...

Before the sequel trilogy, I set a game 1,000 after the Battle of Endor so I could do whatever I wanted to with the series. I had a Balkanized galaxy with an Imperial remnant, much like the Fel Empire, that was noble and monarchical. I had the Republic which had fallen into purity spiraling and...

Thank goodness. Superman's raw over the top power is his greatest weakness as a character. Toning him back down to levels that he used to be at before the comic book writers went crazy is a must for any serious Superman story.

Ironically, I don't have any problem with Gygaxian; it works well for Gygaxian naturalism, for example. Not sure what else it would be used for. "High Gygaxian", on the other hand, I find pretentious. YMMV, I suppose.

Still haven't gotten around to reading my Solomon Kane collection. I've got that, plus Ray Feist's Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon up next in fiction. Also, I've got all four of James Silke's Horned Helmet novels now, after finding the fourth one on a used book site at a reasonable (ish)...

Could have been worse. James Gunn teased an original Guardians of the Galaxy team in one of the end credit scenes, but it was really just a cameo; nothing ever came of it; Starhawk, Mainframe, Martinex, etc. Fake teasers are even worse than dumb jokes. I actually thought the final end credit...