Grimrock

WRT: DnD playing: Not really so enthusiastic. There are more agreeable systems out there, but DnD has the largest body of games upon which to draw, so that's what I'm doing. The concepts to which I'm referring, though, aren't unique to DnD: Storytelling, rules being used to tell a story rather than ...

Heard about the game quite a while ago on RPGWatch, but for some inexplicable reason never investigated it further. What caught my eye about the project was the GoG preorder special a day or so ago; they've apparently expanded a bit and now include indies (none of which I've checked out yet, other t...

Sol_HSA wrote: As to your question, what's more powerful than a god, the answer is pretty obvious: DM

GAH! fourth wall! Fourth wall!!

*head explodes*

My use of the term "godhood" in these posts is twofold: it refers to a situation where BOTH 1) there's no challenge left to the game, and 2) there's literally no room for the character left to grow within the power structure of the setting as a whole. While it's true that in EoB, +5 was th...

Thanks for the reply. And I'm sorry for the vagueness of the question :) . I'm referring to fairly nebulous design goals rather than anything specific, so it sort of has to be vague. Will try to provide a few examples for reference, though. I suppose what it really boils down to is my view that Rule...

Ok, so I found out about this game a day or two ago and pre-ordered the thing today, so I haven't been in the loop long enough to have found an answer to this question even if it's been addressed already, but... One of the things that I liked so much about the old DnD based games -- EoB, et. al., bu...