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Post by okumarts on Nov 6, 2016 16:17:49 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Nov 2, 2016 15:31:11 GMT -9
It's important to take a break from time to time. I've been really overwhelmed with work and life the past couple of weeks (like 6-8 weeks) and I'm woefully behind, but I'm trying to rest a bit more than usual this year. Next year, all bets are off...
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Post by okumarts on Oct 30, 2016 18:13:43 GMT -9
I feel bad I wasn't able to get more peasants done. This ended up being a VERY BUSY couple of weeks.
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Post by okumarts on Oct 29, 2016 14:34:17 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 29, 2016 13:39:57 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 22, 2016 4:43:39 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 19, 2016 18:58:37 GMT -9
I'll see how many I can get done!
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Post by okumarts on Oct 16, 2016 6:36:30 GMT -9
Sweet fancy Khan!
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Post by okumarts on Oct 12, 2016 17:34:09 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 12, 2016 17:32:28 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 12, 2016 7:49:50 GMT -9
What with it being October already, I thought I'd take a look at how things went last month and glimpse into the future. It's been a very eventful summer. I can't believe I managed to get TWO Eldritch Horror sets, a Save the Day Adventure out, A Serene Fist set, Anime Hack (where the heck did THAT come from?), Contraption Pages (and a second set which is just about ready to scoot out the door), AND TWO Villain Books for Save the Day. Personally, my mom has been sick off and on, giving us a scare that she may need to move out of her house and go into long term care. There were baby showers and family illnesses to contend with. I refinanced a mortgage that took 4 months and was VERY stressful with lots of hoops for me to jump through. I started the Print On Demand process (that is really stressful for me. I apologize for that.) My daughter got engaged! I got engaged! Real life has been both frustrating AND exhilarating in the past couple of months. I really don't know how to do POD. I have a few people helping now and I'm readying to send it off this month. Sorry for that delay. On this end, I am happily playing a weekly game and working on Inktober drawings this month. The inktober stuff will be helping take some pressure off of a future project so it's not all play. OK. I was able to finish the Far Trek sheet, Contraption set two and the dwarf mechs and dragons set. I think that's pretty good. I will work to get the rest of that list done this month. I'm fast, but I'm not THAT fast it seems.
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Post by okumarts on Oct 11, 2016 17:46:02 GMT -9
You are the coolest!
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Post by okumarts on Oct 11, 2016 16:03:03 GMT -9
I will admit I use WW stuff most every week with my gaming group. I loved the variety and modularity of the sets. The "our way or the highway" attitude sometimes became tiresome and I think it's the same here. It's something that lost its sense of fun after a while and the bitterness spilled over into the forum from time to time. The product was always top notch, but became less whimsical and fun as they went along and became more desperate to make money with it than simply enjoy it. Like Holden Caulfield said, "Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
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Post by okumarts on Oct 11, 2016 9:36:16 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 11, 2016 7:44:39 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 7, 2016 10:37:25 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 7, 2016 7:59:22 GMT -9
Great reading about so many people's experiences! The more I read both 5e and the retro-clones, the more I remember why my group abandoned D&D for Champions and Fantasy Hero. We had two basic problems, neither of which is really deal-breaking, but both of which are constant, low-level irritants. The first is the stupid D&D magic "system", which consists of a list of ultimately arbitrary spells, which you much choose in advance of each play session, guessing what you'll need, and then hoard because once you cast a particular "memorized" spell, it's gone. I know 5e has tried to patch over this with it's spell-slots rules, but even that seems arbitrary and kludgy to me. The D&D magic system goes back to the white box, and was deliberately based by Gygax on fiction by Jack Vance, which handled spells in a very unusual manner relative to the rest of fantasy literature, and if that style of magic isn't right for your campaign world, you're stuck, or your house-ruling HARD... The other problem is more foundational, though it's actually easier to fix, and that is using that stupid d20 for everything. A single d20 gives you a 5% chance of rolling each and every number, making a result of 11 no more likely than 20 or 1. 3d6 covers the exact same range of numbers (though it loses 1, 2, 19, and 20, its bell curve is the same as the average roll on 1d20), but gives a really sweet bell curve, which I think better reflects "reality", but more importantly, irons out a lot of the "swinginess" of D&D combat. The hardest part of house-ruling that you use 3d6 to attack, save, or attempt a skill is convincing the skeptics at your table to give it a try; there are very few situations in play where you have to actually adjust a number because you're rolling on a 3-18 bell curve instead of a flat 1-20. Oh, and I hate the rigidity of character classes, but that's just me. All that said, I do have the three core books for 5e, and it is a much cleaner, more consistent version of the D&D than the ones we played in the late 70s to the mid-80s, and I have played a couple of pick-up sessions at the local game shop, so I can bear it if I have to. I'm looking around for a regular gaming group, since I know literally no one interested in RPGing, and I'll play whatever they want to play, of course. Once I know some people, I'll run a campaign myself, and then I'll be able to have more influence over the choice of system. We went the Fantasy Hero route as well. Today we use OSR games and enjoy them as well. Mostly pick up, rules light fun campaigns.
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Post by okumarts on Oct 7, 2016 7:57:44 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 7, 2016 3:09:09 GMT -9
I like Swords and Wizardry White Box, but I also run a Labyrinth Lord Colonial Boston campaign I am quite fond of.
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Post by okumarts on Oct 6, 2016 7:23:31 GMT -9
Is the blank one still available?
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Post by okumarts on Oct 6, 2016 7:22:15 GMT -9
It'd be fun to see okumarts panicked civilians re-imagined for a medieval setting! Challenge accepted!
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Post by okumarts on Oct 5, 2016 16:57:40 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 4, 2016 19:34:53 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Sept 22, 2016 15:37:42 GMT -9
LOVE it!
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Post by okumarts on Sept 17, 2016 18:23:28 GMT -9
I like cutting everything out by hand myself.
edit: I also score with the exact knife, but not the back side, the sharp side. It's all about the touch.
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Post by okumarts on Sept 14, 2016 20:50:00 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Sept 10, 2016 15:23:39 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Sept 10, 2016 14:29:29 GMT -9
Colouring dragons. This is a Wooly Dragon. There will be 4 dragons and 4 dwarf mecha in this set. I will have 2d and 2.5 options for the dragons.
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Post by okumarts on Sept 9, 2016 11:45:22 GMT -9
Yup, they are double sided. I suppose that COULD work.
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Post by okumarts on Sept 9, 2016 7:39:23 GMT -9
Ermegerd! That looks so cool!
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