Recent content by Reynard

I think people often forget that superhero stories are literally both the oldest kind of story and the most common and impactful. Gilgamesh. Greek myth. Beowulf. Round table. These are ALL supers stories.

It is cool that you have a playstyle you prefer and have found games that match that playstyle. Denigrating other playstyles is not as cool. Most of them, I think. I play D&D, Daggerheart, Shadowdark and Savage Worlds a lot, and those use points or other limited resources to power abilties.

Alright. Fine. I'll listen to it before I complain any more. Jeez.

It may be that attitude that convinced her to let you die?

Worse than "I died with 2 healing potions in my pocket"?

We are nearing the end now. The party is returning from the faewild with boons and new levels, and they STILL won't tell me what they plan next so I can prep.

Sure. The robots will take the jobs of highly trained and educated people, and humans will do the dumbest, most menial labor since humans will be cheaper than the robots.

Interesting. I own the Monster Vault but don't recall reading that section (i mostly just use the monsters in place of whatever boring versions are in the MM).

Yeah, in the past I have been kind of down on SKT based on the sort of crappy experience I described in this OP. But when I was going through the early parts of modules I happened to own on FG, SKT seemed to have a better start.

I have the opportunity to teach a bunch of young uns (okay, millenials) D&D (using fantasy grounds). We had session 0 last night, creating characters and getting familiar with the basics of FG. Next week we are going to start the game proper. My intent is to start Storm king's Thunder with them...

Cards in Daggerheart just hold information that is just as easily placed on the character sheet. And there are plenty of character aspects on the sheet that aren't on cards.

This is The Voice for me. It is vapid and probably rigged, but nothing brings me joy on a rough night like a 4 chair turn.

I enjoyed what I played of Starfield but ultimately it did not have that "must see what is over the next hill" quality I associate with Bethesda RPGs. Skyrim and Fallout 4 are compelling to me because the map is open and littered with tiny quests and environmtal stories. Starfield just did not...

I wish it was just the third season of the show. I think long form is much better for this sort of thing.

The fact that Dungeon Crawler Carl has taken the world by storm is mind boggling to me. But I guess lots and lots of people liked Twilight and 50 Shades, too.