Troll Lord Games

<t>I like my gods to stay in the background, otherwise life in a fantasy world ends up like living with a bunch of drug-sozzled superheroes.<br/> <br/> Still, at the moment I've taken a leaf out of the Vedic tradition , but with an extra primary deity. As a result, I have a Creator, a Destroyer, a P...

Well, it worked well enough to get me to order a copy. And I do not buy much RPG kit these days.
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History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted all other alternatives.

areola wrote: I have an assassin player in the group. He is true neutral. I am having a slight problem dealing with him in terms of character profession though. How do you explain a heroic assassin that kills ppl for money and still save the day? Suggested reading: Waylander, by David Gemmel Sugges...

Rigon wrote: ...But as one of the 2.1% how is aware that there is a world beyond my borders, I fall into the percentage that doesn't give a crap about the rest of the world. (no offense meant to those how don't live here) No offence, my a**e. _________________ History teaches us that men behave wis...

<t>A nice capuchon is all the rage these days.<br/> <br/> I;ve tended in the past to make at least some allowances for period clothing. the study of which is a fascinating exercise in and of itself.<br/> <br/> But the shoes. Oh, my sweet heavenly Man in the Moon, the shoes.<br/> <br/> *gibber*<br/> ...

<t>A nice capuchon is all the rage these days.<br/> <br/> I;ve tended in the past to make at least some allowances for period clothing. the study of which is a fascinating exercise in and of itself.<br/> <br/> But the shoes. Oh, my sweet heavenly Man in the Moon, the shoes.<br/> <br/> *gibber*<br/> ...

<t>Point 8: As a nation, we hate metric more, if possible, than the USA. Especially since it makes a lot more sense for a lot of things.<br/> <br/> There have been people willing to go to jail for selling things in pounds and ounces.<br/> _________________<br/> History teaches us that men behave wis...

Love playing fighters. Always have.
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History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted all other alternatives.

<t>Close thing, Harry. Hope you and yours are all OK.<br/> <br/> It's a funny thing, but people don't generally think of England as tornado country. Not even ourselves, although we have more tornadoes per square mile per year than anywhere else on the planet.<br/> <br/> I was planning to go into Bru...

<t>I do imagine that the announcement is being upfront. They can use their publishing staff and equipment to produce RPGs, or they can turn that resource over to churning out more novels.<br/> <br/> The novels sell better, and make more money for the same expenditure. Case closed.<br/> <br/> GW has ...

<t>Ah, thouls. I love thouls.<br/> <br/> Yes, any 1st or 2nd Ed beast works with a very minimal amount of work. Hell, you can even eyeball it rather than use a set-in-stone conversion matrix.<br/> <br/> I think 3rd Ed monsters would need a fair bit more work, but should be doable.<br/> _____________...

<t>Now that's sweet, sweet music to an old SF nut's ears. I love the hard stuff, the really hard stuff.<br/> <br/> Doesn't mean it can't be pulpy too, though, as a setting I'm working on hopes to testify. No FTL, no reactionless drives, no psionics, no superpowers, but a man-made solar system compos...

This is all very, very encouraging news.
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History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted all other alternatives.

<t>My tastes range cery widely, or perhaps they just stagger across the musical spectum like a drunk across a field in desperate search for his house keys.<br/> <br/> Either way, here are some of my all-time favourites that I play again and again, in no particular order:<br/> <br/> The Levellers (th...

Nice to see the little fella again, too.
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History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted all other alternatives.

<t>While I do like thee to be some story going on in the world, the PCs are free to act however they wish.<br/> <br/> So, it starts scripted at the very beginning, but that's just the kick-off situation. After that it's all pretty freeform. I don't make the story; the players do that. They're the st...

CharlieRock wrote: So really what is the difference? Let them do what they want with phone records or identity cards. Maybe they'll actually catch a bad guy. It's not any worse for me that now it's terrorists and last week it was gangbangers and the week before it was crackheads. It's been the same...

Holy crap, Treebore! That is excellent news!
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History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted all other alternatives.

<t>No, that's not what I mean at all. I'm not anti-police, not even anti-government, as long as both have a very close eye kept on them.<br/> <br/> What I'm talking about is the continual pressure put on people to give up "inconvenient" rights in the name of some ever-changing emergency that'll just...

bloodymage wrote: aren't reindeer bigger than horses? Not as heavy I'd imagine, but "taller" in "stature"? They're a type of elk and I've seen elk that are monsters! Good question! No, reindeer are a lot smaller than elk, and a fair bit smaller than horses. About four feet to th...

CharlieRock wrote: That may be immoral, and I don't fret too much if it is. But loose pseudo-intellectual arguments won't convince me there is a giant well-organized conspiracy. I've worked for the government. It is one of the most haphazard organizations around. Very true; Few governments have eve...

<t>I generally use the 3d6, put-'em-where-you-like method, with the "Take 2, add 1" mod from the old Basic Setbut I rather like Peter's 3d4+6 method, too. Do you get an awful lot of very high scores with that, or does it just "average" at above-average?<br/> _________________<br/> History teaches us...

<t>This has an awful lot of promise. I particularly like how it ties strongly to charisma, which makes a lot of sense to me. I hope I can playtest it for you soon, and I'lll let you know how it turns out.<br/> _________________<br/> History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted al...

<t>My inspiration comes from all over the place. My Greenshade campaign came from reading Philip Jose Farmer's "The Stone God Awakens" (that book's an old friend that I enjoy reading from time to time), while my Orphan Soldiers SF game was inspired by the haunting lyrics in "Voices on the Wind" by t...

<t>I never had a problem with orcs riding horses; having an orc on one's back must be no more or less odd than having a human there, for a horse.<br/> <br/> However, I always felt that goblins were too small for horses, so I've generally ran them as being a little afraid of them. They prefer to ride...

<t>No, it's not in the least broken. The problem arises from trying to ram a rule from one ruleset into a completely different one.<br/> <br/> So, why should an attack roll be rolled rather than described? Well, that's simple. An attack roll is being defended against, so there is an opposition. Ther...

I think C&C's style readily fits it as an excellent tool to run this kind of game without choking to death on the stats.
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<t>Nothing, but I got a nice astronomical telescope, so I'm a very happy bunny this year.<br/> <br/> Truth to tell, I like to get my own gaming gear, and relish the chance to pop over to my FLGS and peruse the shelves for something toothsome.<br/> _________________<br/> History teaches us that men b...

<t>Being a shaker of Heaven's pillars is a fundamental part of the way I run games. You may not be super powerful, you may be half-terrified most of the time, but when History turns it's you at the fulcrum with the power to tip the world one way or another.<br/> <br/> As an example, at the moment I'...

<t>I'm forced to agree with Harry. I'm even tempted to think that Bryan is being treated rather unfairly.<br/> <br/> Consider the position as you have set it:<br/> <br/> You ran D&D, and came to dislike it, so changed to C&C. The rest of the group came along with you, and one of them became ...