Recent content by soviet

Dude real food is like this too

Does Babylon 5 count yet?

I think this is good play, nice. I did a similar thing a long time back. At the climax of a cyberpunk campaign the PCs had uncovered a terrible secret and the megacorp made them an offer: hand over all the evidence and let us wipe your memories of it and we'll give you back the lives and...

If your game gives players a sheet full of stuff to look at, but relying on that sheet creates unsatisfying play, either you built the sheet wrong, or you built the game wrong.

WFRP did all this in 1987

Rolemaster solved this circa 1980. Both combatants have an Offensive Bonus (OB) resulting from their skill, strength, positional advantage, etc. At the start of the round each combatant decides how much of their OB they use to attack and how much they hold back as a Defensive Bonus (DB) that...

Uh, what? I'm no big fan of 5e but 'plays more like PbtA than trad D&D' tells me a) you aren't familiar with PbtA and b) your idea of trad D&D starts with 3e.

'I think a plan is just a list of things that don't happen' - Parker, The Way of the Gun

The sky above the port was the colour of streaming, tuned to a dead platform. I love Neuromancer, this should be good!

I for one am SHOCKED at Snarf Zagyg's latest rant about the scandals with Daggerheart! You won't believe the third one!!!

Popcorn and whisky then!

Someone I've never heard of has an opinion on a thing that didn't happen? Hol up lemme get my popcorn

It occurs to me you might find this interesting. I'm a player in a very long-running D&D campaign that always uses the current ruleset and started under 2e. We're currently at level 16. We've been using 2014 5e and will switch to A5e soon. My character is a fighter/ranger/barbarian. I like to...

That's cool. I recognise that there are ways to make it work and have fun with it. Sometimes that's because of a deliberate approach and sometimes it's because the particular alchemy of a group or GM is a natural fit for how the game works anyway. I'm glad you're having a fun time with it! :)

2e had racial abilities like infravision and detect slopes in passageways that were universal and largely non-combat relevant. The stat modifiers were much smaller and stats in general were less important. There was much less of a sense that playing a non-typical race/class combination was being...