by chuckdee68

But a sad day as only 3 24-hour RPGsare in the top. Two of those because they just recently had their files posted. Get the 24-Hour RPGs back in the top, people!

by Zaphod

Grimlock84 wrote:

I prefer this Virtual Flea Market over the consignment store. I like being able to talk to the people selling the games and feel more confident that the games are complete than taking the chance at the consignment store. I also find it much easier to look here than in the consignment store. haha

Usually if I see a post on Fans of GenCon about the consignment store I post about the VFM being an option as well. People are probably tired of me saying that. 🙂

Also don't have to wait in that line for the consignment store!

I like both, but the primary difference is price. The prices here are atrocious. So many games are just sitting here unsold because people are asking new Amazon prices for used games. Or top eBay value for OOP games. If you wait a few days at the consignment shop, there are usually some pretty good deals.

by Zaphod

Inari44 wrote:

Zaphod wrote:

Just a reminder you have until the 19th to get your unsold items listed at the consignment store or auction at Gen Con. I've always had much better sales there than on the VFM:

https://livegameauctions.com/

You don't even have any items listed here...

I meant historically. It's a good option for stuff people can't sell here obviously. Especially if they are trying to raise funds for the con.

by skalchemist

An item RPG: WAYPOINT has been added to the geeklist Missing Images: RPGs with no logos

by GrimoireOfJank

SeaofStars wrote:

I removed the goblinoid/monster kindreds from my fantasy campaign as a deliberate choice. Any human-ish foes that are encountered are going to be from the same types of kindreds as the player can choose from for their characters. If you want to have a character that hates group X or Z, that is fine, but it is not just an "all dwarves hate orcs" situation (and excuse for the player to not have to think too deeply) and no kindred is innately evil (though some of the cultures may be). And certainly in the game world, Group A hates Group B who hates Group A and Group C, and so on, just like our world.

Now, I did end up adding a type of goblin to my campaign, I was challened by a fellow blog writer to "make more interesting goblins" and I did, at least for the contex of my game world. But they are distorted/warped minor fae and have been fun to use to harass the characters now at then but they are not a common threat.

I have also scaled back the use of unliving creatures as threats, no waves of skeletons/zombies, as I want the wrongness and unnaturalness of such beings to be brought into the setting more. And that does not work if you keep encountering them around every corner.

That's fair, if I'm using Kobolds or Goblins as just some fodder to fight it's never "all of them are like this" it's just "these are essentially just bandits who happen to be lil' guys".

by GrimoireOfJank

aramis wrote:

latindog wrote:

For my purposes Goblins and Kobolds are not terribly different from one another. I understand that Kobolds are related to dragons and goblins are related to orcs but they're both greedy, violent and fairly cowardly low level villains. In a Pathfinder game a few years back we had two goblin PCs so having troubles with goblins would have been more interesting with that group.

That varies by game and in D&D by edition/era. Early D&D Kobolds were dog-like. Basically, dog-men, in the 60lb range. Somewhere in the 80's they became smaller lizard folk - essentially Lizardman's Hobbit-analogues, now that I think about it. Then, later, they became the draconic goblin equivalent.
KAMB they're short, furry, seriously wide mouthed, massively shark-toothed, rampaging little dog-like psychopaths trying to curry favor by stealing from humans to feed their King the Farmer's offspring. And they're the PCs.

[q="D&D Basic Set 1981"]These small, evil dog-like men usually live underground. They have scaly rust-brown skin and no hair. They have well developed infravision (heat-sensing sight) to a 90' range. They prefer to attack by ambush. A kobold chieftain and 1-6 bodyguards live in the kobold lair. The chieftain has 9 hit points and fights as a 2 hit dice monster. The bodyguards each have 6 hit points and fight as 1 + 1 hit dice monsters. As long as the chieftain is alive, all kobolds with him have a morale of 8 rather than 6. Kobolds hate gnomes and will attack them on sight. Treasure type J is only found in encounters in the lair or in the wilderness.

Moldvay era Kobold.

Afaik it goes back to German kobolds being kind of just a vague goblin-type creature, then early D&D made them dog-like from art (which I assume was based off a somewhat vague description), then Wizardry ran with that classic style and was massive in Japan (which is why dog-like kobolds are still the main sort in alot of fantasy anime that has them).

by Whittledaniel

£25.00 for RPG Item: ALIEN Starter Set
Condition: Like New
Location: United Kingdom

by Inari44

Zaphod wrote:

Just a reminder you have until the 19th to get your unsold items listed at the consignment store or auction at Gen Con. I've always had much better sales there than on the VFM:

https://livegameauctions.com/

You don't even have any items listed here...

by jumpwalker

The main thing is that it's golden.

by Nemesisprime2

<div>Hardback book during play</div>

by Nemesisprime2

<div>Back cover hardback book</div>

by Nemesisprime2

<div>Front cover hardback book</div>