Recent content by timbannock

I would if I played it.

So much this! If they spent that space on dungeon, wilderness, and settlement generators in the vein of Shadowdark and other books that do it concisely, and actually threw the weight of their design team (and the cash they have for art, diagrams, etc.) into it, that would be something.

Whoa, my name is in the news! I'm obviously biased, but I just want to say that I'm really excited for what Bear and his team are doing with Heroic. All of the stuff I dreamed of for Astonishing but didn't have the time and resources to do, they are doing, and in many cases, a bunch of other...

Obviously "it's bad" is subjective, but I think you miss why people think "it's good": Greyhawk is a setting where most of the nations are locked in a cold war, and several are locked in a hot one. Armies are constantly clashing, domains are constantly up for grabs. Evil with a capital "E" is...

Since Mike Shea loves Shadowdark so much, I wonder if we'll ever see a "Forge of Foes but Shadowdark" from him? He's already built online tools for FoF accessible via his Patreon, so it seems like it'd be a somewhat easy (maybe somewhat tedious, too, though) exercise to reapply it to Shadowdark.

I'm a GM running Shadowdark and coming off of some OSE...plus (unfortunately large amount of) D&D 5E. IME, retainers get ignored because players don't want to split their loot (even though they can theoretically get astronomically more with the extra hands), and domain play never gets off the...

Short and concise. Looking back on 35+ years of gaming, I can say that while my players (in many groups) and I did a decent job of remembering rules, the fact is that "more rules" was never better for our playstyles. While some of the stricter systems did give some players the fun mini-game of...

Gygax was frankly just bad with names all around. I feel like the anagrams were often his more inspired ones :LOL:

I wonder how much of that is "ease of use" (you don't have to "know all the lore") versus it being a reaction to how the timeline jump in FR for 4E was so poorly received? The Realms reset + ten year jump in 5E has been so haphazard and internally inconsistent that it's really hard to grasp how...

I love Greyhawk and I absolutely have no need for it being updated by WOTC because I can jettison the bad parts on my own with ease. Plus DMsGuild has the 32 page folio and City of Greyhawk as print on demand for cheap, and they are good quality. I do slightly prefer the 1e box set for its depth...

Oh yes I have, and a I love it for exactly that reason!

DO NOT PLAY THIS IF YOU HAVE VERTIGO

I would love to see his take on a megadungeon. It would be absolutely bananas.

Source?

Haha, sorry to ruin that for you ;-P You can see much bigger images at their site; just scroll down. G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game Standee Pack #1