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Quote: Originally Posted by HeWhoSpeaksOfDarkness Why are you puting it in such judgmental language? He says he doesn't like the game because it sort of assumes that you are playing people of non-modern morality. You accuse him of wanting shallow justifications. How are his justifications shallow? Becuase he himself said so? He stated that he atleast needed a "thin veneer" in order to enjoy his particular enjoyments...

Quote: Originally Posted by Darren MacLennan You could, but you'll have to account for the rescued cultist's radically reduced Sanity and secret knowledge of the world. They'll get their relative back, but not as they remember him. Which actually has a couple of precedents in Lovecraft. Not cultists directly, but, say, Shadow out of Time, for example.

Quote: Originally Posted by Garlick Even if they read the books, the women I know who game wouldn't put up with the ingrown, mopey sexuality of the books in their actual play style. If it were the female gamers I know, it would go something like this... GM: You cut your finger and your vampire boyfriend says he has to go away and never see you again. Player 1: "Fuck you, asshole!" I shift to werewolf form. Called shot...

Honestly, it's great for all players to feel like they are free to do absolutely anything. My character for instance would have definitely murdered the fighter in his sleep later that night and pretended we were ambushed. I might have murdered the bluffing player too. Depends on my mood.

If it had to be done, I'd gladly keep hold of many of the ideas that have given D&D it's well deserved time at the top. The Great Wheel cosmology, Githzerai/yanki, Ravenloft, Owlbears, Mind Flayers and Beholders. Spelljammer ships, The Hand & Eye of Vecna, Alignments as an objective cosmic truth, Tanar'ri & Baatezu. Subterranean matriarchal torture elves, good old fashioned dungeon crawling. All that good...

Yay! Someone else who now knows Henry Cowell's greatness! In terms of contemporary film scores don't forget Wendy Carlos's wonderful work for Kubrick's "The Shining." Truly scary.

Quote: Originally Posted by Barghest If the actual game play turns into a situation where no other advantage than killin' thangs counts--that's the GM's fault for sucking. Not the writers' fault for not providing a mechanical framework to model expertise and their societal perks and connotations (because we can usually assume that they at least implied one, which is all the foothold a halfway decent GM needs). I'm...

Huh.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wulf Corbett Now that's interesting (and Ian Cooper says the same thing later). I've never read that before (I don't read every thread on HQ2...) I read plenty of people saying "the difficulty varies on how well the players are doing up to this point", but never a description how it varies. I guess that's what people are talking about with this 'pass/fail' cycle, and...

Psh. That's too much of a loss of freedom. Just get yourself a Staff Grace (or is it Ring, I forget) and learn Spirit Flaying Meditation. This allows you to cut off traits you don't want at any time. Permanent mutations? Permanent Limit? Say goodbye! Best of all, you can remove those traist without disrupting the Charms and other traits which require them as prerequisites. So run up to five points of permanent limit, buy yourself...