Recent content by GrimCo

Do we need to? I mean, we are talking about grown up people here. There is some baseline expectations of acceptable behaviors baked in when engaging in play with other people. Kindergarten kids learn them real fast without to much communicating and written documents. Be fair, follow the agreed...

I think that there are also other factors to consider. First is, how good are you with problem player. It's easier to talk it straight up with no sugar coating if it's your friend than acquaintance or school/work colleague. Other one is do you play irl or online. If it's online only and you...

In private and in person. Non verbal communication is big part of human interactions. Text, calls, even video calls don't convey body language. Make it civil, comfortable, in neutral environment - personally, i'll ask player to meet for a coffe. Be clear that it's about specific behavior, not...

Yeah, that game captures zeitgeist of 90s edgy pop culture perfectly. I bet those were fun years to be teen/young adult. Personally, i view Cyberpunk and Shadowrun more like alternative timeline. I'm cool with tech being both more advanced and more outdated at the same time, compared to current...

Problem with last 3 books is time skips. Children to God Emperor is 3500y, God Emperor to Heretics is 1500y. First trilogy takes time in the span of some 25 years.

I've seen some artwork by HR Giger and Moebius for that movie (and i'm big fan of both of them). It would be visually stunning, but Jodorowsky's vision was more in taking basic premise and then transforming it into movie version of LSD trip.

I'm glad they are finishing with Messiah, specially if they incorporate smidgeon of stuff from Children. Dune and Messiah are story about Paul, his rise to power and his end. Children are last novel in series that can be made into movie. God Emperor and onwards, it's to much philosophy ramblings...

In my games, magic/supernatural and tech don't really love each other. So all those mystic books, when scanned or photocopied or photographed, they miss something, something that's perceived only by human eye and brain directly reading from manuscript. Same with some of the eldritch horror, they...

My PF1 group usually plays like that. Declare what they wanna do and what skill they wanna use. Not my personal preference, but that games tend to be super casual monty haul h&s, so it works. In my main group, we sometimes play like that, mostly when we all play tired. Party splitting up, even...

We did also. Mostly by me playing bard. 3.5 bard was great "second best at everything" class. 3/4 caster, spontaneus caster, had good spell list, could use wands, had heal spells, 6+int skills, bardic kowledge feature, bardic music, and on top of everything else, it was decent backup fighter...

Scribing scrolls were mostly downtime activity for wizards (1 scroll - 1day). And while yes, most items were found or purchased, wizards were class that usually had most gold since they didn't need to invest heavily into magical armor and weapons, so wands and scrolls were natural choice on what...

@trappedslider I get the jist. It's not about converting DC into $, it's about converting $ prices into DC. So a 1000$ Iphone 17 is DC15. Thing is, a 600$ Samsung flagship phone from generation ago, like S24 Ultra has high‑quality digital camera and video recorder, a music player and streaming...

Wizards get Scribe scroll feat at level 1 as class ability. It's cheap and easy way for storing utility spells, specially for out of combat use.

Never. There's a reason most people call levels 3-8 sweet spot. Levels 1-2 is survival mode, 9+ is superhero to demigod mode. In 3-8, characters become competent and heroic, but still not game breaking.

It works quite similar. Resource merit. Anything that's priced under your merit, you can just buy. If it's above, you roll and hope. They gave ballpark for each dot, but that's in 2004 prices, i have adjusted it for today's prices. Someone with 2 Resources is middle class, 1200-1500$ of...