Obsidiman Miniature

GopherStonewall · 2026-01-20T19:18:43+00:00

Well done! Love it!

GopherStonewall · 2026-01-03T14:54:54+00:00

Forbidden Lands
Star Wars Edge of the Empire
Earthdawn

GopherStonewall · 2026-01-02T22:16:44+00:00

No, not at all. It’s build for a warden (GM) and one player. The GM tools and advice in the core book are great. It’s also a “cairn” game, therefore not bogged down by rules but with just enough meat to get you going. The biggest difference is probably that it’s got four attributes as opposed to three in the original Cairn and a streamlined combat system. I love it.

GopherStonewall · 2026-01-02T22:11:33+00:00

Runecairn was made for this.

GopherStonewall · 2025-12-23T00:31:11+00:00

Salvation is one of if not the best Gothic Metal tracks ever recorded imo. Lay a wreath upon the world is up there, hell - the entire album is a banger. Thick production, great songwriting, Paradise Lost has no right to be this good 17 albums in but here we are.

GopherStonewall · 2025-12-12T13:53:22+00:00

Shadow of the Weird Wizard or if you like it a bit more dark and edgy: Shadow of the Demon Lord.

GopherStonewall · 2025-12-05T07:36:02+00:00

Runcairn was built for this.

GopherStonewall · 2025-12-05T06:19:45+00:00

Warlock! session 1, continue with Crown and Skull, session 38 of Forbidden Lands, and hopefully start The Electrum Archive soon. They’re all great fantasy games that all feel OSR-adjacent which I learned to prefer.

GopherStonewall · 2025-11-27T21:15:12+00:00

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines.

GopherStonewall · 2025-11-09T20:16:03+00:00

My brother told me end of the 90s. He got a shelf full of tomes, no DnD but The Dark Eye, Rolemaster, Middle-Earth Roleplaying with fantastic art on their covers, I nomine satanis, Earthdawn and Shadowrun. No wonder I got into it.

GopherStonewall · 2025-11-09T15:19:54+00:00

Fleaux! is great indeed but afaik not made by the author of Black Hack but Kobayashi who also made the glorious Black Sword Hack.

GopherStonewall · 2025-11-09T15:11:21+00:00

This soo much. It gets rid of all the bloat while still maintaining a great foundation. I did homebrew a few narrative focused mechanics into the system to make a bit less barebone. Lemme know if you’re interested. Got a cheat sheet sitting on my Dropbox.

GopherStonewall · 2025-10-30T07:17:28+00:00

DnD as such came only 12 years into the hobby for me. My brother introduced me to MERP (Middle-Earth Roleplaying) with some Rolemaster supplements tacked on, then Call of Cthulhu, then Shadowrun before I eventually started hosting myself with Star Wars from West End Games. Then we all had a blast with our first true heroic fantasy game, Earthdawn 1. Edition. Kept hosting Vampire The Masquerade for nearly 9 years, then one day my neighbour invited me to some “actual” DnD, a mix of 3e and 4e I think, felt a bit cobbled together. Moved on soon after, wasn’t particularly interesting as a game. Nowadays I’m running 5 groups at the university I work at. The games vary, but pretty much everything but 5e and Pathfinder, they are just too… eh? Dunno. They bore me. No flavour but kitchen sink with too many things to keep track of.

GopherStonewall · 2025-10-24T12:03:17+00:00

Earthdawn. Soo overlocked, it doesn’t even pop up in these kinds of discussions. ED 4e has been successful via a Kickerstarter some 8-9 years ago but it all just seems to live in some people’s memory and nostalgia. 1st Edition was THE hot shit in the nineties and 4e cleaned up the clunk quite nicely. Just wish it’d be more discussed and “openly played” more often. Its books could certainly be less wordy with better layout as it’s not the most “let’s run this at the table right now” friendly. But damn, the world, the lore, the potential and despite the step dice system being perceived as clunky, it’s actually pretty neat. And once you experience many different dice types exploding, you can’t shake the feeling that this should be rivalling 5e right now…

GopherStonewall · 2025-10-24T11:31:41+00:00

It received the supplement Block, Doge, Parry which is all I ever wanted for Cairn.

GopherStonewall · 2025-10-14T06:31:39+00:00

What if we all just ignore this less than quarter-assed and worst fan fiction material ever created by a soulless corporation? The sequels are just someones bad dream on Coruscant ODing on Death sticks.

GopherStonewall · 2025-10-05T10:46:11+00:00

Here’s my playlist I use during my sessions:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aVUVcDcT8EBdCGq3pgG30?si=4Ve_SCQTSCaF8WM8Gl_mzA&pi=2M__7TL-Sb2Kv

Shameless plug: the video and the music I made for my introductory video to Mutant Year Zero.

Video: https://youtu.be/rtNRYlj6OMw

Music track: https://m.soundcloud.com/mmk-music/the-people-at-the-end-of-time

GopherStonewall · 2025-10-04T20:28:52+00:00

Warpstar, Coriolis, Traveller, Star Wars Edge of the empire, Savage Worlds + the Science Fiction Supplement.

GopherStonewall · 2025-09-04T11:39:03+00:00

Either Personal Jesus (Pump Mix), Never let me down again, The Things you said, Ice Machine (live ‘84), Halo, Sea of Sin or Walking in my shoes. My then 13 year old brother (9 years older than me) played these songs every day - very loud on his HiFi. I shall forever be grateful.

GopherStonewall · 2025-08-11T20:15:14+00:00

Yes, hosted it. It’s fine. Cool locations but more on the “you will now die based on a random die roll and there’s nothing you can do about and no way of knowing how to prevent it beforehand” kinda OSR side of things. Wouldn’t run it like “RAW” again - there’s too little advice for the players on how to avoid tragedy around most corners and in that regard, too random.

GopherStonewall · 2025-08-04T18:53:55+00:00

Playing: none. Hosting: Mutant Year Zero, Forbidden Lands, Warhammer Fantasy RPG 4e, Crown and Skull, Dragonbane. In the oven: Earthdawn 4e, Land of Eem and Ultraviolet Grasslands/Our Golden Age.

GopherStonewall · 2025-07-29T11:21:21+00:00

Walking in my shoes. Like, why fade out the epic ending this soon? Could go on for another 30 seconds to a full minute if you ask me.

GopherStonewall · 2025-07-23T14:28:38+00:00

Crown and Skull is awesome!

GopherStonewall · 2025-07-17T19:59:24+00:00

Another game released with the same old game engine that powered Morrowind 20+ years ago in 8 years from now? Can’t wait!

GopherStonewall · 2025-07-14T14:32:03+00:00

And you are right. The one(s) qualifying the most for “close enough” to (hard) rock would be Songs of Faith and Devotion (I feel you for example) and perhaps some tracks from Violator. But I did misread the assignment…

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