The Gaming Den

Prak_Anima wrote:Really, Fury should get his own series of this sort.

He had a MAX mini-series in 2002 also written by Ennis. Six issues of boning hookers, killing Russians and putting out cigars in the eyes of bureaucrats. It wasn't your daddy's Nick Fury but I thought it worked.

Prak_Anima wrote:It's pretty good for trashy crime oriented "kill all them criminal mother fuckers" stuff.

"The Slavers" and "Man of Stone" are gut-wrenching arcs.

I am so happy to have never read a SR novel. I read one. 2XS . I was in junior high school so that's my excuse. For all these complaints about immortal elves and dragons, hardly anyone is pointing to an alternative path. I don't mind Immortal Elves, Great Dragons and Mega-AIs. They fit fine with th...

Missions aren't self-contained. They have their own over-arching plot. They're four-hour convention games and are written like four-hour convention games. Also, speaking as someone who wrote one, they're kinda terrible. At least Manhattan was. I'm thinking more along the lines of: everything a GM an...

Sand. Sand on pavement is also pretty bad, at least while turning. I made that mistake about thirteen years ago. I learned that lesson about four years ago. A river swell had deposited a bunch of sand over a concrete bike path. My leg looked like a sausage for a week and my then-girlfriend's mom, w...

Speaking of "zero world impact", since the end of 2nd ed./beginning of 3rd ed. it seems like every piece of published adventure material has been a big sprawling epic requiring a campaign plot book. What's the anathema to one-shots that don't intersect the metaplot? SR would benefit from w...

A mighty scar and a permanent lump on my calf taught me to never, ever ride a bicycle in the rain. Rubber on metal brakes are non-functional when wet.

In the long run Wizard's paradigm shift will probably pay off, if they hold onto the D&D license. As time goes on D&D won't be the gateway RPG, it'll be the RPG that WoW leads you to. Pushing edition wars, OldSkool gamers and what 4E does wrong aside, I don't understand the idea that 4E mus...

Jeff Laubenstein's pen and ink spot illustrations were what sold me on Shadowrun during the 1st ed. years. His gritty, warty renderings of orks and trolls riding subways and wearing opulently decorated jackets really pulled me into the setting. But there was also something a bit light and satirical ...

Waiting for The Way of Kings from Brandon Sanderson. (Next week) He seems to be the current fantasy "it" writer. The genre writer panelists at GenCon were practically fawning over him. That said, I have Mistborn coming to me from the library and my wife is listening to Warbreaker on CD.

Fuck, I hate these people. They bought into the "omg speshul power names" bullshit wholesale. They are the cancer killing RPGs. You do realize that D&D is the starter game for most role-players, right? Of course people like Krahulik, people who pretty-much only video game, are going t...

Ah, I misread your question. No, I don't remember a 3.0 PHB II.

Yes indeed.

It's not popular to say but players can be really, really lazy. Or if they're not lazy, story takes a lesser priority to dice rolling and imagining things exploding and people dying. I've had sessions where I'll set up a 'soft' railroad with very obvious tracks and when I ask my players what they wo...

Which doesn't explain poor-quality books. Jason literally ignored pages of proofing notes on Corp Guide and the Sixth World Almanac. That's just being a bad developer. Amongst many things, I find that particularly infuriating. I know I've caught many a typo or error when proofing and the changes we...

I'm currently reading Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley. British cyberpunk written in the late '90s. Tailored viruses as drugs, fascist Britain, Paris Disneyland used as a staging ground for eunuch worker clones who manufacture drugs in their bodies... that sort of thing.

BT does not have a master schedule, so they can't fall behind on it. Shadowrun takes place "sixty five years from now." That means that right now, in 2010, they are supposed to be releasing the 2075 events. First time I've heard that SR has a master schedule or that events in the game uni...

Crissa wrote:The bad thing is that they're already years behind production and they've just lost some of their best talent and they're unlikely to get any of it back.

Are they behind on BattleTech? Those gamers seem fairly contented.

Seriously? I'll agree that for a MM, Mignola's style isn't necessarily the best, but there's art in Eberron and one or two other books that I could have sworn was Mignola working with a brighter palet, until I looked at the artist credits and saw him no where on there. A Mignola-clone, or any other...

Maxus wrote:I'm reading Neuromancer.

My Chatsubo Bar tee came in the mail this week. It looks sweet.

It's a cultural touchstone for a lot of late-20- and 30-somethings. Like the Blues Brothers. FBDO isn't bad. It's a nice way to fill a lazy Sunday afternoon but it isn't Citizen Kane.

Then again I've never seen Sixteen Candles or any of the other early Hughes teen comedies.

I love the Hellboy-verse of comics and I love Mignola. But his heavy, shadowy ink style isn't particularly appropriate to a Monster Manual. Maybe for a WoD book or an elder evils supplement but not D&D. While they don't have to be in color, a Monster Manual illustration needs to be clear enough ...

I think the amount of sexuality displayed in the current edition of D&D is fine. Bare midriffs, big boobies, throbbing pecs. Nothing you wouldn't see outside of a Marvel comic. Until WotC begins an age 16+ imprint, it's not the job of D&D to push that boundary. That said, I'd be intrigued by...

The future is SeaQuest, not Star Trek. There are plenty of places for humanity to spread out right here on Earth that don't involve exposure to lethal doses of radiation or trying to squeeze water out of rocks.