Troll Lord Games

<t>Okay, this is an edited copypasta of something I posted over at Palladium and Knights & Knaves Alehouse.<br/> <br/> I read an eye-opening piece over at the Knights & Knaves Alehouse board about resetting OD&D using the Chainmail rules of 2d6 for 'to hit' instead of d20. Apparently, at...

<t>I love Shadowrun. The only problem I have with SR4 isn't the rules but the almost gutting of the setting. Colour me strange, but I loved the almost curse-words: drek, frag, slitch etc. They did the rules really well, but the flavour got burned away in my opinion. That and the classic cyberpunk ar...

<t>Hahahaha! Sorry for the thread necro, but that's farkin hilarious! Eh, as for which clique, yea, I'm with the 'all and none'. Besides, I'm always the weirdo that wants to play stuff no one else wants to, like a Druid or a Monk. <br/> _________________<br/> Lord Lamorek Steelguard, Baron of Calx M...

<t>For me, nothing beats Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Its not just The Lord of the Rings, but also The Unfinished Tales, The Children of Hrin and the rest of the published legendarium. I guess part of it tickles the fancy of the historian in me because of Tolkien's rather faithful adherence to the themes...

:drools at the thought of venison:

Ah.....
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<t>After long suffering over what to do about the Alignment system, it basically took D&D 4E, of all things, for me to revamp it. I now have 5 alignments. Pick one and voila. I still use the X/Y axis.<br/> <br/> X - Good, Neutral, Evil<br/> <br/> Y - Lawful, Chaotic<br/> <br/> Good covers a broa...

<t>I found out on Monday when I got an email alert from my buddy Tom Bateman (who used to work for Harmony Gold). I'm supposing it was congenital since Tom said Carl was a careful eater and didn't smoke. Shake off the dust of the road, Carl, your boots have space dust on them now.<br/> _____________...

<t>Hmmm...lets see.<br/> Fantasy: Toss up - C&C Homebrew (AD&D 1E & OD&D mixed in) for most stuff, but for Lord of the Rings and (surprisingly) DragonLance I use the LotR CODA system (it does Wizards far better in my opinion). <br/> Sci-Fi: WEG's D6 Space/Septimus/Star Wars 2E (espec...

<t>Hey guys.<br/> <br/> Nice to see the Society still chugging along. Sorry I've been offline for so long. Had to end up moving (which means I'm gonna have to get demoted from Baron down to Knight since I have no group for the foreseeable future).<br/> _________________<br/> Lord Lamorek Steelguard,...

Pat Payne wrote: It also didn't help that for a time, we'd get people in who were trolling like the infamous BankofKev who were putting out some of the most outrageous stuff in the other direction, and some MWers overreacted and became a bit too overzealous and started flaming anyone who spoke up i...

ssfsx17 wrote: The problem is that Harmony Gold is single-handedly preventing legal imports and legal licensing of all Macross products, except for, amazingly, Macross Plus. The two box sets of the original series also took a considerable amount of legal wrangling to get published in the continent....

Pat Payne wrote: If you're a Macross fan (or even a Robotech fan) this is a great site to visit. I haven't been there in too long, but it is the go to place for Macross fandom. Some posters there tend to be among the most obnoxious and venal people I've dealt with on the internet and Ive been a mem...

<t>I refuse to buy either Big West-backed or Harmony Gold-backed toys until either of them get off their asses and start making Southern Cross toys (HG has the International Rights, BW has the Japanese rights). Yamato and Toynami could easily make Spartas and Auroran/Ajax toys as well as the numerou...

Another vote for CZ: Upper Works
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DangerDwarf wrote: Although I did dig this from the Gelatinous Cube entry: Unless an encounter plays out exactly like the steamroller scene in Austin Powers, we fail to see how the Gelatinous Cube ever kills anybody who's not either glued to the floor or fast asleep. I seem to remember an ingenious...

nwelte1 wrote: the new cover lloks good but I liked the place holder art better. I also liked the placeholder. Either way, the art here is infinitely better than the drek that is on most FRPGs these days. _________________ Lord Lamorek Steelguard, Baron of Calx Mons Montis - The Castles & Crusa...

<t>Well, I'm looking forward to this endeavour. I certainly dig the 'retro' artstyle because, frankly, I can't stand most modern fantasy artwork (non functional armour, weapons that could never be forged, only cast etc etc).<br/> _________________<br/> Lord Lamorek Steelguard, Baron of Calx Mons Mon...

<t>Ok, <br/> <br/> on the off-chance there is anyone who cares, Bill Coffin's Septimus D6 RPG is going to be published in August and should be available at GenConIndy where Bill will be autographing copies at West End Games' booth. This is great news as it will possibly be the catalyst to finally ge...

<t>I'm hoping they don't lose the themes from the original, that of overwhelming people when they come in. V was supposed to be a futuristic retelling of the Nazi takeover of Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. I think people could use a dose of that kind of introspection in our time as its easy to ...

Booyah! Finally the Trolls are coming to a convention I go to. Definitely cool.
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SAW? Yep, I would love to own an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon! Oh wait, you didn't mean that SAW? Hmmm....
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Fat Dragon Games wrote: Steve, it's a proven fact that this craptastic music causes brain damage. Hell, just look at what it's done to your brother! I present to you proper audio enjoyment Hehe, funny enough, the anime series Super Dimensional Cavalry: Southern Cross had as part of its BGM an synth...

Bah, who wants all that vapid crud? You want real music like that found in Behind Enemy Lines (first rescue attempt, censored edit). BTW, this is perfect music for Shadowrun.
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Lord Dynel wrote: I play the LotRO game. I don't know if it's the exact same as the RPGs No, in fact there were a couple of us who had it out with the developers on the economy when it was still Middle-Earth Online. Steven Long used a system based upon the cost of Bill the Pony in Bree (13 Silver P...

<t>See, the way I have it in my games, its basically The Migration Era (Dark Ages) after the start of the Successor States period following the collapse of The Western Roman Empire. Blackmoor for me is basically Sub-Roman Britain where trade still exists and there are still some vestiges of Imperial...

dachda wrote: Thanks everyone. As to the type of law, frankly with this economy, I'll practice whatever I can to find a job. I hope eventually to practice federal Indian law and/or environmental/natural resource law. If I may make a not-too-political suggestion....we need more REAL Constitutional L...

<t>Silver is the basic coin in my game. I use a modified version of AD&D 1st Edition coins/prices:<br/> <br/> 1 Copper Penny (most common coin) <br/> <br/> 5 Copper Pennies = 1 Bronze Penny or Ha'Penny (second most common coin)<br/> <br/> 2 Ha'Pennies = 1 Silver Penny or Farthing (basic coin of ...

<t>Since The City of Blackmoor is the homebase of my campaign, yea, cities are kind of important (though I use a non-canonical version that is no longer a Township but a City like Yggsburgh).<br/> _________________<br/> Lord Lamorek Steelguard, Baron of Calx Mons Montis - The Castles & Crusades ...

<t>Non-canonical Blackmoor, aka 'Kitchen Sink' that could be set in The Wilderlands I guess (I'm really trying to track down a copy of the original Great Kingdom map from The Domesday Book). I've got Dragonians (Draconians by another name), Hairfoots (Kender), Tallfellows (Docrae), The 7 Dwarf House...

Relaxo wrote: Now that I think abuot it, before the two huge lamps that Melkor knocks over, was there light then? what about after he knocks the lamps over, back to darkness? No, Tolkien abandoned that mythic beginning. He wrote about how the myths surrounding the beginnings of Creation are essenti...