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Absolutely agree yeah. Having them be awarded as part of character creation (like it is in Eon IV) is a perfect solution to the problem of utility. In a points buy, I suppose you could just give everyone a few points to spend on "flavor" skills.

A bit of Swedish RPG love in English: Eon IV - Better than Burning Wheel and Mundana rules. Västmark - Does this count as modern? Endlessly charming. Järn - Animal tribe people are cool! Collaborative setting building rules. Hjältarnas Tid - Just finished a year-long campaign and it ruled...

Online it is like 99% D&D. In person, there's some more variation but D&D is still the overwhelming answer. You do get a lot of White Wolf types hiding out as well. They never really went away. If you talk to an older gaming group, there's almost always some Rifts fans in there. If you talk to...

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A second item that I think DoD did extremely well: Magical items (at least in the 87 book). Since they are just spells assigned to an item, it is trivially easy for the GM to create almost any item you can think of, including a lot of really interesting stuff (like a flying sword or armor that...

In truth, I'm not sure if I feel specifically Danish OR American these days. Some days I feel both. I do try to read danish novels and so on, in order to not feel completely yankified :) I still have my passport and "Sygesikringskort" but the passport is expired by now. I don't usually bring it...

Cheers! Bike lanes in Portland Oregon yes, it's quite good. Out here in the mid-west it's not very common. Side walks are generally common that I've seen. In big cities, its usually passable-to-decent. I;ve used it in Chigaco, Grand Rapids and Portland. Suburbs, small towns and rural its...

I thought maybe this would be fun: As a Scandinavian (Dane) nerd who has lived for 20 years in the United States, what kind of questions do you have that you always meant to ask, either about nerd culture or life in general? It's probably best to avoid too many political questions, though I am...

One thing I really liked from White Wolf games was the idea of secondary skills. Players in our group almost always took some sort of nonsense secondary like "Old cowboy movie lore" as a character thing. Sometimes you even found a way of using it!

So while the talk about räls can go on forever, I wanted to talk about something that I always found really cool: How cosmopolitan DoD was in supporting playing a batch of different creatures. Our last game had a duck, a varg and an orc going on a pirate adventure and it went perfectly. Now...

I hope you'll forgive the English: I think the OSR folks also tend to gloss over that things like finding stuff was given mechanics very quickly (the Thief in Greyhawk, secret door rolls etc.) since it was something that absolutely caused problems. The whole "Describe how you are searching for...

I actually wonder if the inclusion of a pack-in adventure might have hurt it in this regard: "They can see what we did, so we don't need to explain it". Of course a packed in adventure in the box was a good thing but I wonder. Though even today, a lot of games don't teach at all.

That's a really interesting point. Would you say that DoD + Expert (which had extensive GMing advice) would make it complete or is that still lacking?

I think a LOT of the debate about being on rails is very much point 1 from my original post: We were bad at running games when we started playing.

Yeah, Middle Earth is a great example. If you want to have a fun adventure in Middle Earth, 80% is all you need. The group fills in the rest with roleplaying and the GM is hopefully good and knows the setting. When people are saying "you can have fun with any game" a lot of times this is all...

Yes, absolutely. "Sort Duel" was a lot of people's first exposure I think and it's a brutal meat-grinder of an adventure (at least it was the pack-in adventure in Denmark). Compare that to the sort of city-adventures that Kandra or Torshem suggests and it's quite a difference. Ironically DoD...

This actually touches on something me and a friend of mine call "80% games". Games that theoretically can do most any type of campaign but they;'ll get only 80% of the way there. You CAN play a game of Arthurian knights with DoD or D&D... but it'll be 80% of the way compared to just playing...

Yeah, being able to become very powerful in a gritty game I think is fine. Runequest had that as well. Dog-items to me would be (as examples) expecting strong narrative meta-mechanics (like FATE or PBTA), balanced encounter-economy (ala modern D&D) or a "fiction dictates reality" mechanic (ala...

I agree 100% for what it's worth.

The purpose of the thread was to both view DoD without some of the preconceived notions we build up over time, as well as compare critically to its contemporaries. I do wonder if some of the railroading debate isn't also tied to playstyles that have changed: When we started gaming in my little...