the early paradox interactive era was also being run by Swedish Dracula and included neo-nazi pedophiles as example player characters and the ‘murder of gay chechens’ in the example adventure. Truly a terrible era for white wolf junk, just leaning into the worst qualities of their games
I haven’t looked at rolemaster 2 at all, I was only somewhat familiar with RMSS which reads like a satire of overcomplicated rules
there is literally nothing in any edition of runequest as ridiculous as this chart
I had completely forgotten about exhaustion. It does exist in rm2, but it can basically just be ignored unless the gamemaster feels the need to track it. But still, that is a fair point! Rolemaster has a lot of complexity lurking in the wings, but the design of the core system is pretty simple while still being easy to add complexity on top of.
After many many delays I finally ran my first real session of the janky Dark Souls rpg last night.
The position system didn’t totally break down yet as expected but our pyromancer I think had too much of something to drink before we started and had to be talked out of expending some position points to cast fireball when he was already pretty wounded. Otherwise this session was sort of an experiment for fine tuning how deadly the combat is since I’m not both not used to its 5E D&D roots nor the role death plays in this particular branch.
There’s not really an on the books reason why the players can’t hit the bonfire after every fight (since the monsters thankfully don’t respawn), but they didn’t do that luckily. I was going to lean on an escalating chance of getting “invaded” by a hopefully significantly challenging NPC if they did but I totally forgot to roll one up. Glad it didn’t come to that yet.
Kobold preference
- dog type (dnd classic)
- dragon type (dnd modern)
- goat type (quest 64)
- lil goblin. a lil gremlin guy (folklore)
- other (plz specify)
This is one of the few times I will side with 2nd edition (though honestly it was the depiction in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup that won me over). I love the notion of excitable little jackal dudes who are either silent ninja types or extremely loud yappy beasts with no in between.
kobold barbarian is my go to DCSS character. i like to see an angry little guy rip and tear
My first character in bg3 was a gnome barbarian, closest I could get
I think my profile pic should tell you exactly how I voted
your profile kobold is ideal imo cuz they has a mix of recognizable animal traits while staying an amorphous lil dude. (as depicted with aplomb by Mr Bachelor)
i like to draw kobolds as like, little puppy lizard hybrids just doing a mix of all my favorites
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kobolds lol. i wanna marry em
the diterlizzi iteration on the dog kobold is exactly my ideal design because it is mostly dog with some weird little gremlin traits mixed in
I know way, way, way too many lovely folks with dragons kobold fursonas at this point to not think of them as dragony things. The ship sailed on this one for me.
Did they forget about Dragonlance’s draconians when they changed these guys?
(John Wick voice)
Yeah… I’m THINkin’ I like the goat-styled Quest 64 kobolds.
where do the dog type kobolds actually come from? Gygax doesn’t describe them as such in the Monster Manual:
The hide of kobolds runs from very dark rusty brown to a rusty black. They have no hair. Their eyes are reddish and their small horns are tan to white. They favor red or orange garb. Kobolds live for up to 135 years.
(they produce eggs too(??)). I guess people might have got the idea from the Sutherland illustration which gives them black noses at the end of snouts. but it also makes them look scaly and they have horns…
i never heard of this dog vs dragon thing until i was playing 3rd edition … but i guess those DiTerlizzi illustrations come from 2nd Edition (??).
kobolds are puppies because I feel the same way about them that I do dogs and they don’t actually exist so I can fill in whatever blanks with my imagination I want to. I’ve pictured them as dog tricksters since I was a child and I just can’t stop now. I pronounce the word ‘KOHHH bowld’ when it’s a dragon one and I say ‘cobbled’ (like shoes) when I think of one on my own