Recent content by Laurefindel

I have never leaned on these « always evil » and monocultural aspects, but I avoid harmful stereotypes more consciously now. Still, when playing in the North, there are clearly dominant cultures of orcs and drows, and they then to be hostile. The orcs that adventurers meet in the wild are not...

1) FR is still my favourite D&D setting. It has breath, some depth, and many good elements despite the (often valid) critics. I’m familiar enough with the setting that I can start a game with little prep and can run a believable world simulation without investing a lot of time in reading and...

Begun, the Clone Wars have. …oops, wrong thread!

Mechanical abilities aside, in the end, I always go for a character with whom I can identify (even if it takes a bit of wishful thinking). This usually means human, beautiful regal human (aka elf), or suave badass human (aka tiefling*). If I could choose a fourth, it would be aasimar. *though...

So many good things in this game. The whole thing could be ported as a roleplaying game with (relatively) little effort.

Same. Flashback mechanics and unspecific equipment are things I got from BitD and often port to other games. If player-characters set out « prepared » and « well-equipped » they can produce up to three undocumented items during their outing. If they were prepared but travelling light, they may...

Some card initiative systems do that. Others allow you to exchange cards with an enemy before combat. We could also imagine a trump mechanics for some characters, either in round 1 only, or throughout the whole fight.

Funny, I was just reading that…

In your OP, you do bring out the existence of unscripted encounters that are not random. Depending on how you define an encounter as « random », you may have gotten slightly different proportions.

I don’t care what people say, WHAC0 was a huge improvement over the clunky Twit Tables…

Unsure what to answer. I went with the last option given the erratum in the OP. At any case, I don’t use random encounters in the classical D&D nomenclature (where encounter = necessarily hostile or adverse, with a randomly generated nature from tables, and randomly triggered regardless of...

I still prefer the original frustrated Vader’s « bring my shuttle! » to the colder Vader’s « alert my star destroyer of my arrival » of the Special Edition of Emipre. The music also flows better in that whole sequence in the original theatrical release, but I agree that out of the three, this SE...

I don’t know, those all sound pretty generic. Not even generic sci-fi. Just generic period. In theatre, my field of work, heat-sink and heat-generation are common concerns, and so are short-range and long-range devices (obviously not missiles). Autocannons are found in virtually every RPG...

I am OFFENDED! The Bard is not a joke! It’s a smokescreen! Editor: « Mr. Gygax, players sometimes find your rules incoherent and inapplicable… EGG: « Oh yeah?!? I’ll show them incoherent and inapplicable! »

Well, I didn’t say she was ‘nice’… But I do think there was an attempt there