Recent content by Swanosaurus

Too many good points to answer them individually! My takeaway is that my disconnect is mainly due to the fact that I tend to prefer "Big damn heroes", but in a more gritty context. That context is well provided by Shadowdark or Into the Odd; however, I'm not interested in the whole "let's go...

I really like a lot of the ideas behind recent streamlined old-school games like Into the Odd, Mausritter, Shadowdark, Liminal Horror ... but one thing that really doesn't work to me how they tend to put your inventory front and center, often linking it directly to health/wounds. I just never...

Since a lot of GURPS settings habe been mentioned in the thread about Revised 4rth edition, I thought I'd start a thread were people can gush about GURPS settings old and new. I'll make a start with Banestorm: I never played it and read the new version only cursory a few years ago because I...

Pendragon might be a case - it really enforced certain themes of honour and chivalry romance through the rules.

TBH, I still consider Dungeon Fantasy a weird choice to draw in new people ... While I can see why anyone who already plays GURPS might like a ready-made powercrunch fantasy implementation, but I do not know why someone should choose it over D&D, or DCC, or any other more classic Dungeon RPG...

It's a feature, but it also entails something really intimidating about GURPS. I mean, if I want to create an intelligent spider that communicates by tapping its feet, I will probably able to create that in GURPS, but it might be a logistical nightmare not only to build that character, but to...

I do get the idea of not wanting to be forced into a meta mindset more then necessary (and in the context of GURPS, that's why I really dislike the "Luck" advantage, which feels out of place here). Though I must say that what constitutes "meta" is highly subjective in itself. I'm fine with...

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...