Recent content by Arakhor

For what it's worth, I think conditions, being words you reference regularly, should be distinctive and have two or three syllables at most. By those metrics, Annoyed is shorter than Infuriated, but less distinctive, whereas Vexed is better in both regards.

The simpler way of calculating that bonus would be halving the bonus and adding 2 or 3 (your choice).

When I was a teenager, my favourite RPG books (all AD&D 2nd Edition) were Chronomancer, The Illithiad and Drow of the Underdark. They even came all the way to university and back, just so I could enjoy their presence in my room. In my 20s, I got into reading 3rd/4th edition GURPS splatbooks...

Reading what you wrote about the Halley's Comet analogue and the Cometborn Sorcerer etc., makes me think of a wandering prophet, who mysteriously appears and reappears each time the Harbinger arcs across the sky. Thus, I present: Xanthos Aster, Prophet of the Harbinger Xanthos is a tall...

I always assumed that the answer was rooted in Lord of the Rings. If you can forge a cool, magical ring, you're clearly a skilled artisan and living up to the power-fantasy of Tolkien's Ring-smiths.

Fighting Fantasy was great too, but Lone Wolf had just one character (with a second  much later on) played across 30 different books, all with a continuing narrative. I'm sure you'll love everyone's favourite Kai Lord. 😊

Doh, I have the Freeway Warrior books on my shelves and I still forgot about them when I wrote that post! Thanks, GreyLord. :) (By the way, if you haven't already, check out the new Definitive Editions of the LW gamebooks that Ben Dever, Joe's son, is producing over at Magnamund.com.)

Two fantasy writers pretty much defined my childhood - David Eddings, who did the Belgariad/Malloreon and the Elenium/Tamuli, and Joe Dever, who wrote the Lone Wolf gamebooks. Dever only wrote one franchise and I even met him once, as opposed to Eddings, who wrote multiple franchises and turned...

Books 8, 9 and 10 have now arrived! (The map is the inside of the cover for Dungeons of Torgar.)

Oof. That one's brutal. :(

You could simply lean into its reputation for light and/or godliness, by saying that orichalchum weapons counts as magic for the purposes of damage reduction when used against undead, and they deal one extra point of radiant damage at all times. Orichalcum armour, on the other hand, might grant...

I can think of three obvious ideas: An ancient ruin housing mystical inscriptions or a long-hidden holocron, teaching a Force-user a lost Force power A secret super-weapon, perhaps in disrepair (or in need of destruction) A lost world, either a bountiful paradise for colonisation or maybe a...