tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post1888689601730946082..comments2016-10-22T00:44:13.211-04:00Comments on Dungeonskull Mountain: The Siren Call Of "Old School"letsdamagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02145102722055581254noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-22000200155820077912009-04-17T06:40:00.000-04:002009-04-17T06:40:00.000-04:00I got hold of Dragon Warriors the other day after ...<I>I got hold of Dragon Warriors the other day after your recommendation. Haven't had a chance to read it properly yet but I'm excited.</I>I hope you like it, or I'll feel bad...letsdamagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02145102722055581254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-68926393993335950122009-04-17T04:45:00.000-04:002009-04-17T04:45:00.000-04:00I got hold of Dragon Warriors the other day after ...I got hold of Dragon Warriors the other day after your recommendation. Haven't had a chance to read it properly yet but I'm excited.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-57004097868397657532009-04-16T22:18:00.000-04:002009-04-16T22:18:00.000-04:00I need to check out the Mongoose forums more often...I need to check out the Mongoose forums more often. This is good stuff.<br /><br />I should mention that over on RPG.net a few people are discussing a PDF Dragon Warriors fanzine, tentatively to be called <I>Ordo Draconus</I>. Two of the artists from the new books (Jon Hodgson and Andy Law) are offering to pitch in, which is pretty cool.letsdamagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02145102722055581254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-84204374472983522462009-04-16T20:32:00.000-04:002009-04-16T20:32:00.000-04:00It's funny--the idea first occurred to me shortly ...It's funny--the idea first occurred to me shortly after reading about DW last year, so I Googled "Lone Wolf Dragon Warriors" and found this:<br /><br />http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=38055<br /><br />There are others...<br /><br />Needless to say, I'll be using those posts as my starting point.David Larkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133630988557116729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-69504795417376048522009-04-16T20:21:00.000-04:002009-04-16T20:21:00.000-04:00And I wholeheartedly support your idea of running ...And I wholeheartedly support your idea of running Lone Wolf with Dragon Warriors. I love Magnamund, and I think you will find DW will run it handsomely with only a little tweaking. Hell, you could make a pretty serviceable Kai Lord by mashing up the Mystic and Warlock professions, I bet.<br /><br />Dude, I want to play in your Lone Wolf campaign.letsdamagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02145102722055581254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-10387904633259691072009-04-16T20:17:00.000-04:002009-04-16T20:17:00.000-04:00I wholeheartedly support your choice (and don't yo...I wholeheartedly support your choice (and don't you just love it when you find yourself making up your mind over the course of writing a blog post?) <br /><br />If all goes according to plan, I should be receiving DW for my birthday next Monday. At that point I plan to get furiously to work melding the DW rules with the world of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)" REL="nofollow">Magnamund</A> and finally realize my long-held dream of running a Lone Wolf campaign.David Larkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133630988557116729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-73650136698862172582009-04-16T16:44:00.000-04:002009-04-16T16:44:00.000-04:00The "cute" part of T&T doesn't b...<I>The "cute" part of T&T doesn't bother me that much, because in my case it provides a nice counterpoint to the weird "dark" stuff in my settings. I can also see T&T-combat-as-written being too abstract for many tastes, even mine sometimes.</I>I certainly don't mean to imply that T&T can't be warped to suit most campaigns. It's just that it would take more work than it would probably be worth, for my purposes. And yes, as somebody who's used to the strike-parry-dodge mechanics of Palladium Fantasy, T&T combat as written is almost maddeningly abstract.<br /><br /><I>There are times I miss the familiarity of D&D ... I've run things with it for so long that the mechanical side of things requires little thought. I'm not there yet with T&T, so I'm not as comfortable tinkering with the default system yet.</I>Yeah, this is an ongoing concern of mine, too. Part of the reason I want to get back to running games (and get good at it again) is so I can get over that kind of mental block. I like DW a lot and would like to be familiar enough with it to write for it, since the call for fanzine articles and professional submissions has begun. Unless, of course, I end up running it and hating it...<br /><br /><I>Eventually, assuming I stick with T&T 5th, I'd like to assemble what I've got for OD&D -- a typed-up compendium of the important rules and the stuff I've bolted on.</I>I would be very interested in seeing that. There's a simplicity and ease to T&T that appeals to me (that and a badass weapons list)... it's just that presentation does matter to me, and it's presented in a way that doesn't suit my tastes. (Nice interior art, though.)letsdamagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02145102722055581254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-10913359810139134672009-04-16T16:01:00.000-04:002009-04-16T16:01:00.000-04:00The "cute" part of T&T doesn't b...The "cute" part of T&T doesn't bother me that much, because in my case it provides a nice counterpoint to the weird "dark" stuff in my settings. I can also see T&T-combat-as-written being too abstract for many tastes, even mine sometimes.<br /><br />There are times I miss the familiarity of D&D ... I've run things with it for so long that the mechanical side of things requires little thought. I'm not there yet with T&T, so I'm not as comfortable tinkering with the default system yet.<br /><br />Eventually, assuming I stick with T&T 5th, I'd like to assemble what I've got for OD&D -- a typed-up compendium of the important rules and the stuff I've bolted on.<br /><br />I hope you run Dragon Warriors, as I found the books kind of neat and would love to hear about how a campaign plays out.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155926145150934199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-90726799846410507962009-04-16T13:29:00.000-04:002009-04-16T13:29:00.000-04:00I agree, but hopefully we won't be wrapping up...I agree, but hopefully we won't be wrapping up D&D 4e for a while, and I am impatient.letsdamagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02145102722055581254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172185396932439661.post-37881523077007143972009-04-16T12:48:00.000-04:002009-04-16T12:48:00.000-04:00We need to do a world tour after Rick Dakan (spell...We need to do a world tour after Rick Dakan (spelled out fully so his Google-alert will catch this[Gotcha, Rick!]) is done with his campaign. Spend a month to a half on different systems.k.bonifieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978200635026237578noreply@blogger.com