Recent content by Swanosaurus

I also can totally see deafness still being a relevant disadvantage in certain situations, even if you can communicate telepathically: Not hearing a shot fired, or a rock tumbling down ...

This makes a lot of sense, I never thought about it in this way - I always took it for granted that if you take a disadvantage that has any worth in terms of story, of course you'll want it to come up; trying to minimize its impact would feel like cheating to me (not saying that it IS cheating...

Yes, but that's exactly the problem: The price tags can't really take into account that one and the same dis/-advantage can be of radically different value depending on your campaign, setting, even the current scenario ... so the idea that all 175-point characters should be able to apply roughly...

Wait, compatible with Pendragon? I can see where CoC7 doesn't really necessitate extra stat blocks, but Pendragon ... does that mean we will get several sets of stat blocks in the book?

I still have love left for GURPS, which seemed the hottest thing eve back in 3e days (they even published a German edition, and I bought everything they translated), but I must confess that it would need an actual new and significantly different edition to get me back into the fold. I like 3d6...

It depends very much on the game. Usually, I'd say that I want the core book, a setting book (possibly both in one, if it's on the rules- light side) and about half a dozen to a dozen small scenarios. I'm usually not that much into big campaigns, I prefer frankensteining them together from...

I'd say chances are good! As far as I am concerned, I'll probably need a few more years of abstinence from all things norse before I'll savour anything along those lines again.

That's pretty much what makes me sitting up here on the fence. I kind of like the idea of a slightly more serious, full-blown setting for DB, and I was aware of Trudvang before and thougt it looked kind of cool ... but the norse vibes kept me from checking it out. Not that I'm against them on...

Yes, that's how stereotype seems to be (very mildly) encouraged, but all the other options seem to be fine as well, I can't see how they would break your character. And that's really cool: So I'm allowed to pick the battle-axe as a wizard, I won't be nerfed whether I do or I don't, but there's...

I'm a third through the corebook (after playing one game as a player), and I'm still surprised how much I love this. I was never much into the class-bound playing style, I always felt boxed in by it, but I must say that DH seems to embody the best of it. What it has going for it: I can easily...

What What's wrong with the license? I read it, it seems okay to me - if I understand it correctly, it lets you retain your IP, which, to me personally, is the most important thing ... or is there some catch I overlooked?

I love the Prestige. I really like Inception. I kind of found Memento okay. Beyond this, the only Nolan movies I have seen are his Batman movies, and I regret watching each and every one of them. Batman Begins was just uninteresting, but The Dark Knight was soulless and preachy and didn't...

I just discovered Daggerheart (I was aware of it when it playtested, read a little about it and deemed it far too crunchy, but now I had the opportunity to play it and loved it), and over here in Germany, it seems t be well-received. I co-own a bookshop where we ordered ten copies, which was a...

I recently had the chance to play in a Daggerheart one-shot, and suprprisingly, I really loved it, especially the initiative system! To my surprise, beause I neither like D&D nor pbtA very much, which seem to be the main influences, and tend to shun class system ... but DH managed to be just...

Maybe I'm misled by the fact that typical "D&Dish"games tend to have a lot of hardwired assumptions, so it seems hard to me to use them for any setting that is high concept in the sense that it isn't open to random elements. It might not be an integral thing about class/level based design, and...