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tobarstep

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    Started with D&D red box back around 85. Got into AD&D 2e, then lots of GDW games: Traveller, Twilight, Dark Conspiracy. Took a ~20 year break from TTRPGs then returned with a vengeance. There isn't much I haven't played (or at least read through) these days.
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    I'm not actively playing or GM-ing anything right now. Mostly trying to work through my creative blocks to get a setting hammered out for a campaign. Doing lots of reading of various settings though, for inspiration.
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  1. Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, Immortal It's the series of box sets that comprised the "basic" (non-advanced) version of D&D in the 1980s.
  2. There is a setting book on DTRPG called "Punktown" designed for Call of Cthulhu. It's been in my wishlist for a while, but I've never actually pulled the trigger on buying it.
  3. This is similar to Barbarians of Lemuria and its offshoots, though they are not d% games. You put a certain number of ranks in several professions representing your backstory and then during play if you attempt something that would fall within the realm of one of those professions (subject to GM approval) you use your rank in it for the roll. Excluding combat actions as those are governed by a separate attribute.
  4. I see it was briefly mentioned earlier, but River of Heaven is a space opera setting (and complete game) based on the OpenQuest system. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3240/D101-Games/subcategory/5545_22234/River-of-Heaven
  5. Vikings of Legend as was already mentioned. There is also the Mythic Britain sourcebook itself from Design Mechanism.
  6. I wonder if they could do licensed sourcebooks or adventures instead of a complete game. SJ Games had licensed Conan stuff for GURPS once upon a time. Like, 30 years ago. But interestingly they're still available to buy "new" in both PDF and POD.
  7. Figured I'd throw this up here. I'm not affiliated with it, just a backer who likes the Legend system and the swashbuckling era. Swordpoint - A Swashbuckling Roleplaying Zine It's a "quickstarter" and part of the annual Zine Quest initiative, so it's intended as a fairly short, rules-lite game.
  8. I was still technically "at work" when the announcement email came in. That didn't stop me from picking this up immediately. So anxious to get started reading this. I love Traveller and I love BRP. M-Space is the perfect "sweet spot".
  9. I read this as "ghee" and imagined people slathering themselves in clarified butter before talking on the phone. But that was a wonderfully personal and heartfelt response, and I think I'm probably better for having read it. I wish you good fortune and good health in your coming endeavours.
  10. Better Off Ted was honestly one of the funniest shows I'd ever seen. Truly a classic.
  11. So, on the topic of armor in public, I'd always heard that it was more restricted than weapons (at least in times long gone). Strangely, if you walked around carrying a weapon it was considered to be for self defense, and probably most "gentlemen" had at least one on them. But if you were wearing armor it meant that you were looking for trouble. I suppose wearing armor was a sign that you were actually expecting to be attacked at some point, whereas wearing a weapon was more a sign for others not to mess with you.
  12. Yes, I had to look up on a wiki somewhere the fact that there are 3 different timelines going on. Ciri's story is basically the "present". Geralt's story is about 15 years in the past, and Yennefer's origin story is much older than that. At least 30 years before Geralt's story. Eventually, by the final episode, all three stories end up in the same timeline. I thin they could have thrown a quick "15 years earlier" up on the screen at some point. Now it's just like a 2 year wait until the next season *sigh*.
  13. Zorro is already under development by Gallant Knight Games, using a new version of the WEG D6 system. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/zorrotm-the-roleplaying-game/description
  14. I had pre-ordered the 2e collector's edition. Sadly, I don't have the 1e books, and they're out of print now so I can't use my C7 store credit to pick them up either. I have the 1e pdf's, but that's just not the same. The main reason I was getting the 2e book was to have a physical book. Sigh.
  15. This sounds similar to me. I started playing about a month or two before TBC dropped. I still didn't know what I was doing when it did come around, but by the time TBC was closing I had raid-tanked everything there was. I even have the achievements for the vanilla raids (of course, I cheated and did them at level 70 instead of 60). I really loved Wrath to begin with, but guild drama started getting the better of me (still love the content though) and quit playing. I came back for maybe month-long stints during Cata and then Legion. I think I pre-purchased BfA but have yet to play. I just can't get excited about it any more. Classic does have some draw for me (leveling up weapon skills and first aid... ye gods there was some cloth farming going on back then) but I don't think it's enough to bring me back. Now, if they ever do a TBC version of "classic", I might be all over that. I've enjoyed Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars The Old Republic off and on as well. I think I'm more likely to drift back and forth between those two than WoW.
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