Recent content by MGibster

You could play a ghost in Nightlife.

I keep thinking of the Maya Angelou quote: "At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel." I do think good RPG art should invoke feelings related to the game it appears in. My gold standard for art is Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a...

Gaze into the abyss! I certainly can't argue I'm not influenced by the art in an RPG book, though I'm not sure to what extent. I can identify games whose art kept me away entirely. A lot of the Avalanche Press d20 setting books were supposed to be very good, but the covers looked like...

In my heart I know these legends change with the times, but I'm still not over that French upstart being added to the Arthurian tales. I kid. I kid. That said, I took one look at Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and noped right out. It was not an interpretation I found the...

Words of wisdom from none other than master strategist Mel from Alice. It might help to identify the source of the problem. I humbly suggest that hit points themselves are the root cause with hit point bloat further exacerbating the problem. A creature on its last hit point is just as...

Ask nine D&D fans what they want and you'll get thirteen answers. Pleasing everyone is an impossible task. But it's all right now/ I learned my lesson well/ You see, you can't please everyone/ So you got to please yourself/ -- Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band

If one painted miniature is better than an unpainted one then a group of painted miniatures is even better! No matter our skill level, having a gaggle of painted models on the board just looks good.

I purchased Nightlife first and other than the cover art it just didn't leave any lasting impression on me. Wasn't Whedon responsible for the inclusion of Angel in the pilot episode of Buffy?

Yeah. The no device rule is typically put in place to avoid distractions, but I don't think you'll find many GMs who would refuse a player the use of a device designed to allow them to access the game. Such a person should be shunned. That's not how the Americans with Disabilities Act works...

I think those were reprinted AD&D books produced in the 1990s and they were more for novelty than practicality. A friend of mine was delighted to collect them even though he already owned the original books. I had completely forgotten about them until you brought it up. I'm in the same boat...

Sure, but the Anarchs were a faction within the Camarilla that were the downtrodden (i.e. typically younger). My impression was we were supposed to identify with the Anarchs but most players ended up identifying with those in power within the Camarilla. We didn't want to play the downtrodden...

It just felt like D&D to me, but then I was 13 and didn't look too deeply at such things. Heck, I really didn't look too shallowly at such things. You're right though, I do remember the books taking a sympathetic stance for those "victims" of goblinization including being rejecting by their...

Running a business is certainly a different skillset from designing games. I've never really thought of Shadowrun from that point of view. I kinda get where you're coming from, trolls and orcs typically being the bad guys in most games, but they never really came off like that in Shadowrun to...