Recent content by schneeland

I'm not sure about that. Just going with "what's plausible in the fiction" requires that the whole group has a pretty good consensus about the game world and the type of story that will be created during a session. This might require quite a bit of negotiation/consensus building, otherwise e.g...

I'm a big fan of a consistent art style in RPG books (or really, in any books containing illustrations). Sometimes a good art director can make different styles work together well in a book, though.

Makes sense to me. Magic is the only area where I really felt Dragonbane was lacking something.

To be fair: at least the German version of CoC had a weapons source book which has 300 pages (Link). Now it's not merely mechanics, and also not very relevant for my personal playstyle, but apparently there is a target audience for such a book, even among CoC players.

Generally speaking, I'm not a fan of large tomes. And that applies even when I like the game (e.g. DCC). This applies to book size, where I favour digest size books (best is German B5, but A5, half letter or 6"x9" are fine, too) over larger ones (or rather their PDF version, since my preferred...

I took this more broadly in the sense that maybe someone has a stressful job, needs to take care of a newborn or their parents, etc. And even though people are not to blame for this, it affects how present they are in game sessions (if they are able to attend at all).

Conflicts in player personalities, play styles and real-life intrusions would be my top three, too. I have also picked "Other" since I was not sure where to put GM burnout. And finally, I have picked disinterest in the system. It's less of a problem these days, but it has been in a number of...

Not really my thing. But the interior art with the characters from the old cartoon is nice (I think I would have liked that better as the cover).

I am not able to vote for Aliens - shame! :LOL: So it looks like this is working as intended, as I was able to vote on other entries. Edit: Weirdly, this is showing up as new in the list, even when I have visited the tread. And Jump to New is broken.

Shadowrun itself/2050+ would be 6th world IMO. 4th would be Earthdawn if I remember correctly (though this is probably no longer canon).