Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 14, 2024, 11:58:48 PMIf it's not fanfiction why not go ahead and selfpublish it?Maybe in the future.
Quote from: BadApple on May 13, 2024, 02:40:08 AMIn every edition of D&D, the description of a cleric lends itself to a purposeful and driven character. That is always interesting. IMO, of all the classes, the cleric is the one that should be the most dynamic in terms of role playing just from the premise of the class. He should be clear on his principles, clear on his goals, and clear on his relationship with others.
Whether you have a seasoned cleric that's heard so many confessions he's completely jaded yet knows his god is real and good, a young acolyte that's just been given his first assignments and is still full of idealism and hope, or a stogy academic that's been force away from his books to handle things the order needs done, you have the seeds of a fascinating character that can be a lot of fun to play and enrich the game play experience for everyone.
Quote from: I on May 12, 2024, 11:27:04 PMYes, clerics are one of my favorite classes. I've also seen them played as very dull characters; most players don't seem to like them and have no idea how to play them right. I really like your tables -- I plan on using them, in fact.
One thing I really liked about Harn is that most, if not all, of the religions had fighting orders associated with them (sort of like crusading orders for Catholics). Do you ever use such? It would be an easy idea to import D&D style games.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 14, 2024, 12:54:50 PMQuote from: HappyDaze on May 14, 2024, 11:02:37 AMCheck out Frank Trollman's Anatomy of Failed Design series to see what I mean. He writes several articles where he explains that the rules are unplayable as written and the groups who "played" ignored the rules anyway in favor of fiat or whatever.Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 13, 2024, 11:34:57 AMDo you mean that the most recent versions of WoD games don't get play, or that the old WoD games don't get played much now? I might accept either of those, but in the 90s and perhaps a little after that, the original WoD games were heavily played in several areas I lived.Quote from: yosemitemike on May 13, 2024, 10:59:31 AMI would guess that, since WoD/CoD is mostly moribund now, people don't have the motivation to publish that WoD Heartbreaker that they did when it was big. WoD-alikes just aren't really the thing any more. A company called Fen Orc makes a series of Black Hack hacks along these lines but I don't know much about them. They have some silver and electrum sellers so they have gotten some traction anyway.I'm not looking for a heartbreaker, I'm looking for games in the urban fantasy genre. I don't actually like WoD/CoD because they're bad microfiction pretending to be games, which the fans don't actually play anyway.
Urban fantasy is still a thriving literary genre. It's oversaturated. I'm really surprised there's zero spillover into ttrpgs.
This even extended to the CoD groups. They used fiat rather than even reading the rules. This notably resulted in things like groups not knowing basic facts about CoD vamps, like that they can identify other vamps on sight. I vaguely remember arguing with bad faith critics about it in the 2000s.
Quote from: El-V on May 15, 2024, 06:27:06 AMWhere's Sheila? Has the woke gingercide got her as well?
Quote from: Mistwell on May 15, 2024, 01:03:46 AMHe said "nobody," implying an actual person, not the NPCs that follow WotC today. I fully expect them to shill for WotC and its wokeness...Quote from: Almost_Useless on May 14, 2024, 11:42:27 PM"Oh boy! I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences." -- Nobody, ever.
This was one of the first replies I saw when the news broke:
"I love being mindful of the history D&D. A new vision of the Oerth of Greyhawk (and Blackmoor) for this century is awesome.
I am curious, what aspects of the legacy content they will mine and which they will tweak for sensibilities today."
So yes, someone, today.