Unpopular Opinions

You know with some of the drama going on I was planning on doing this post any way. Buy Wylock put out some of his own so what the heck time to double down with own. So yes. This happened to be a total coincidence.

Let’s start out with the biggie. No rule, set of rules, or game is sacred. You can hack, fold, spindle, mutilate to your heart’s desire. You don’t need the permission from any game designer or publisher. You don’t need to ask their forgiveness. You don’t need the blessing of a bunch of strangers on the Internet. The only people that matter are the folks at your table.

Too many people are whine about how strangers play their games. When your group gathers around the table. It’s your game. Play how you want. How often have you heard, “I would never do that at my table.” or “That’s not fun.” Dear Internet Stranger, you don’t get to define what’s fun at my table.

If it’s not defined in the rules then make something up. Really, how many times have I seen some minor thing like the price of a piece of odd ball equipment cause some body to get all worried because there isn’t a price in the rule book.

If everybody gets the same bonus then it’s not really a bonus.

The time it takes to generate a character should be inversely proportional to character life expectancy. So the deadlier the game, the faster character generation should be.

No game is better than a bad game. If you don’t the game or the people. Just walk away. You’ll feel better in the long run.

You are not your character. Your character is not you.

Your campaign isn’t a novel or movie script.

Understand the genre of the game.

Yeah that just some random thoughts. This’ll probably get me in trouble with somebody.

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Dungeon Ladies

Got a couple more Reaper Minis done as well as a couple of pieces of scatter terrain. I have to say that I’m really liking the recent Bones minis. I still have a bit of a dislike on the first generation Bones.

I’m not happy with the Dungeons & Lasers scrolls and books. They are just so large. On my part, the paint job sucks. Wylock has better methods and they are so simple that even I can do them.

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White Box Wednesday: Order of the Crimson Death

I admit that it’s getting tough to find new stuff that centered around White Box. So if you hear of anything then drop a comment. That also means that just maybe I should get off my butt and write some more stuff on my own. But in the mean time, I just happened stumble upon a pretty cool blog. Well,actually, they found me.

This isn’t a review just a little heads up on someplace cool to go for some White Box fun, a very interesting campaign, and links to more White Box tools than I knew existed. So it’s worth checking out Order of the Crimson Death.

I know this is a short little post. Hey, they can all be long rants by yours truly. Like I said, check out that blog.

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Things You Find In A Crypt

So got a couple more of my Reaper Mini’s done as well as some of the Dungeons & Lasers Bits.

You poor intrepid adventurer finding who knows what in a dungeon. Both the mini and the coffin were a breeze to paint.

Some times, there’s something or some one guarding that crypt. Once again, even with my limited skills these came out pretty nice as far as I am concerned.

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Blighted Krevborna: Things You Learn In The Sewer

Sometimes even experienced players do silly things that can get their characters killed. That’s what happened in this session.

We started the session with some rumors. The one that matters here is, “There are wererats in the sewers.” Then later on the party was hired to go into the sewers and do a seek and destroy on an evil cult’s temple. They went shopping. They some extra lanterns and some better armor for the fighter and then it was into the sewers.

I had this set up as a series of semi-random encounters and the first thing the party runs into was a wererat lair. It was an ugly fight and they barely survived. They crawled out of the sewer and tended their wounds. So what did they do?

They jumped right back into the sewers to get revenge on those dirty wererats. Seemingly to totally ignore that each anyone hit one of the wererats, the GM would say, “You’re blow doesn’t seem to do as much damage as it should.”

The second trip into the sewer went even worse. First, the Magic-User was killed. Then with her last breath, the Plague Doctor pours a Create Zombie potion down the throat of the magic-user. Meanwhile, the dwarf fighter is barely holding his own and the most effect thing he came up with was holding a wererat’s head under “water” (OK, it was raw sewage) until it drowned. The fog of war starts to clear and the Dwarf is down to 1 HP. The wererats are all down. So that leaves him facing the zombie of his friend. He kills the zombie, crawls out of the sewer, and begins drinking heavily.

I asked them, “Why didn’t you get any silver weapons?” The general response was thought about it and dismissed it; and we didn’t want to spend the extra money.

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