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That's what most people on this board want. Hard to ask a designer not to try new things and implement their own ideas though. I'm sure the impulse is to use EQ/VG as a base and build on it. The crowd-sourced design thing was a TERRIBLE idea from the start, like a lot of us mentioned when...

Yeah, SJW stuff is obnoxious but his good advice is worth the eye rolls

Just have a couple of friends "report" you...

They promised server resets seven or eight years ago. Open a fresh progression server and keep the older server. After progression server gets to a certain point, merge it with the older server and restart the progression server. That way there is always a progression server but you never...

D&D is like any other game: if you're having fun, you're doing it the "right" way. I think you can pretty safely assume that. Certainly, some groups don't give a shit about rules or consistency or anything like that. But in my experience, most groups want a DM to be pretty familiar with the...

I started with 1st ed back when I was in my early teens. The DM for our group started playing D&D when he was in the Navy. Basically told us that he was in the middle of the ocean for months at a time on an aircraft carrier with nothing to do (this being the mid 80's), so a lot of the guys...

Sure. You can get away with it if you are DMing for elementary aged children. Normally functioning adults will pretty quickly realize your campaign is a waste of their time and move on. Dude is probably trolling, but just in case someone takes him seriously.

Why?

I'm not going to call you a freeloading fuck, but if that's your financial situation, I very seriously recommend that you stop playing games. If your financial situation is so precarious that buying a game means you don't eat for 3 days, I sincerely recommend that you spend 100% of your time...

Yeah I mean by 3 or 4 eps in you should like Rome. And you reminded me- if you haven't seen the first four or so seasons of Archer that's a must for sure.

I mean, I'd recommend the following to anyone: Deadwood The Wire Fargo The Last Kingdom The Terror Peep Show Madmen Barry Get Shorty (TV show not movie) None of those are really secrets, but they are all about as binge-worthy as it gets. I've got more but if you haven't seen all of those you...

Did you like Deadwood?

You tried HBOs Rome and didn't like it?

The Last Kingdom is just a great show in general. One of those top tier shows ala Fargo, The Terror, Better Call Saul, etc. I love the setting/time period, but you can tell from watching the show that you could take the same actors, directors, and production crew and make a great show in any...

If this isn't a Homebrew adventure, I want to know the company that had the balls to put this out.

Yeah but you have to give good acting it's due, even for pretty boys. Every guy wanted to punch Brad Pitt's face in his Thelma and Louise days, but by the time 12 Monkeys came around, only the most jaded haters were still denying the dude could act.

I don't mind a little learning curve if I'm using something long-term. Anything considered "comprehensive" is it going to have at least a small learning curve by necessity. If I was using it to play 5th edition or something, I would certainly check out both. But I'm only using it to test my...

Haven't done fantasy grounds and I just messed around with R20 for the first time the other day. Super impressed with R20, and I'm a really, really picky GM when it comes to stuff like that. They did a great job of making it really easy and intuitive and they included all kinds of little small...

Haven't seen that episode apparently, but... Yes?

Exactly. The ST universe has always been "progressive" in the sense that started from a standpoint that humanity had already solved a lot of issues that were considered hot button at the time. Racial and gender inequality? Oh those haven't been issues for centuries. We would rather talk...

No way I could listen to 12 minutes of that dude's voice. Anyway, who the hell played EQ because of how it looked? I remember thinking the graphics were a little subpar but manageable when I first played EQ. Even if you were a fan of EQ's art style (which I was) nobody who first logged in was...

Finally got around to seeing this. Two Thumbs Up for sure. While it does parallel both Dexter and Get Shorty (tv show), it's enough of its own animal to easily brush aside any claims of being iterative. Top 5 show for 2018. Really enjoyed it and looking forward to next season.

I've been happy with the things I've backed on Kickstarter, but I haven't backed many. The Shadowrun Returns games are the most recent thing I can think of that I backed. Kickstarter is like any other platform you use to spend your money-- it's caveat emptor. Do research, use common sense, and...

"Looking back on my life, I realize I must have spent half my money on booze, gambling, and wild women. The other half I just wasted."

if you are somebody who does Homebrew campaigns anyway I don't think it would be too terrible. But if you're not a Homebrew kind of guy, then yeah, it would be a lot of work. Otherwise, you could just reskin a lot of the stuff that's already out there

You mean 5th Ed dnd just set in Norrath? You could do that pretty easily yourself

Cool, thanks man. Loved your sheets (and yeah, that font rocks). In the process of making sheets for my own system and wanted some inspiration ;)

A while back there was someone on here who showed off some really excellent character sheets that they had designed themselves. I thought it was in this thread, but I just scrolled through and couldn't find it. Anybody remember who designed those char sheets or the thread they were posted in...

For profit game companies are not charities. They aren't your family, and they aren't even your friend. If you want to give to charity, that's great. But find an actual charity.

You could argue that a lot of EQ's features came from the fact that the game wasn't over-engineered. So much of the game's flexibility came from the early devs not really knowing what to expect. They just threw a lot of features out there without really anticipating all the creative ways...

Didn't run mines as a DM, only played it. It's possible the GM just fucked the campaign up and I came away with a bad taste for the adventure itself. What I remember from it was mind numbingly predictable with tons of hackneyed tropes and conventions stuffed into it at every turn. I remember...

Were they very new to pnp RPGs?

I can't fathom anyone raving about that adventure. At most I can see see people defending it as "not that bad." Who knows? Maybe you'll love it. Let us know

I'll say I thought Lost Mine was one of the worst retail adventures I've ever played. Most purchased adventures are pretty bad, but this one was particularly terrible. That said, 5e is the cleanest, best designed system I've seen. Played PF for many years and it filled a gap that D&D wasn't...

The lack of competition might give them a boost in exposure, but it's not going to give them a "win" by itself. People don't need to play MMOs. If the game sucks it won't win even if it was the only mmo on the planet. If Pantheon sucks, people will just play games that aren't MMOs. I haven't...

People only lose interest if you've made the mistake of hyping your game while it was still a collection of sketches on bar napkins. Approaching investors with vague ideas and sales pitches is one thing, but trying to turn a potential audience into your investors with the digital equivalent of...

"New news" huh?

Thanks for the heads up then. It's annoying they haven't fixed it yet, but I suppose it's more important that they get it right

Trying not to get any spoilers at all (even small ones), so forgive me if this has been stated already- Did the big "fix shit" patch go through and is this thing finally worth starting?

To be fair you could apply that definition of 'finished' to most PC games these days. I stopped buying most PC games until after the first big 'fix most of the broken shit' patch.