The Pros and Cons of Fantasy Counterpart Cultures

https://ttrpg.network/post/34449141

What are your thoughts on Andoran?

https://ttrpg.network/post/34373855

Oh, there are lots of tales missing. I estimate that there are more than one hundred thousand German folk tales that have been published in the 19th century alone, and there are a bare 755 of them on the wiki (as of this writing).

While I try to translate as many as I can, I am just one guy who does this in my free time. So yeah, there will be gaps.

Interactive Map of German Folk Tales

https://ttrpg.network/post/34291608

Guest article about the Wild Hunt

https://ttrpg.network/post/34279079

I’ve read some other books by Claude Lecouteux, and I am looking forward to reading this one.

The Despair Dragon in particular. I don’t think I have ever seen such a weird-looking dragon.

Well, paying more for stuff is never fun, but the profit margins in the RPG industry are razor thin as it is. Both the employees of Paizo and their freelancers have mouths to feed, and I can understand why they do it.

I’ll continue to buy their stuff as before.

Hexxen 1733 - Warum nur weibliche Hexen?

https://ttrpg.network/post/34158671

This was my very first RPG, back in 1990.

The first piece of advice: Don’t have player character deckers. Make them NPCs. The decking rules are a horrible, horrible mess that takes the action away from the table.

Mixing Fantastic Creatures from different Cultures

https://ttrpg.network/post/31593319

Yeah, as a German the settlement patterns within most D&D settings looked deeply weird to me. But for all of its pseudo-European trappings, D&D owes at least as much to the tropes of the “Wild West” genre.

The problem is that cities are usually dependent on the resources of the surrounding countryside. You have to protect the fields and the mines as well, unless you can somehow produce all that stuff within the city walls.

Keith Baker always encouraged this kind of creative reskinning of classes.

And, of course, the privilege of superbeings has been explored in #ttrpg before, such as in the setting of Aberrant.

Fantasy Settlement Patterns

https://ttrpg.network/post/31459446

Eberron is one of my favorite DnDoid settings, precisely because the designers put a lot of thoughts into this stuff.

Seoni, the “Iconic Sorcerer” from the Pathfinder RPG.

The Privilege of Sorcerers

https://ttrpg.network/post/31397985

I rarely have buyer’s regret for TTRPG products, but Carcosa ranks high on that list. The “Sorcerous Rituals” section is maybe worst - do we really need a detailed list of how sorcerers sacrifice humans to work their magic? Not to mention one ritual (“Consign to the Lightless Lake”) where the sorcerer actually rapes his victim.

I will never buy anything from Geoffrey McKinney again.

Done. Thanks for the suggestion!