Kerney wrote:
I understand where you are coming from, as reskinning is a great tool for home games, when each GM can make the individual call. But for a game like PFS, I don't know how well it would work, since one GM's wardog-to-pig reskin could be another's longswords-to-lightsabers. For a shared world game like PFS, once you break away from RAW and start allowing GM opinion, I think it can create more problems than it solves.
wraithstrike wrote: I think things are ok the way they are. I feel lucky to get the free pdf and the discount. I agree. I may not always be part of the first wave of .pdfs, but I don't think it's ever been more than a day or two until my order was processed. Among all the problems and issues I might face, complaining that someone else received a .pdf shortly before me seems rather unreasonable.
I can sum up a last straw moment I had in two words: Palomino Unicorn. Here's the backstory - years ago myself and a few friends(briefly) played in a game run by a guy I'll call "Tim". His wife, I'll call her "Tammy", was a player in the game. Tim was always posting Gamers Wanted notices in the FLGS (this was the days before the interwebs), and he was having trouble keeping a group going. We chatted with him a few times at some in-store events we decided to give his game shot. First game we meet his wife Tammy. The campaign was AD&D set in a homebrew world. Tammy's character was a homebrew race called something like "Elfling", which was basically like an elf but only better. And her character's class was also homebrew, it had a name I don't remember but it could best be described as a "Mystic Princess", which was like a figher/rogue/magic-user, but only better. New players were not allowed to run Elflings or Mystic Princesses, so we settled on the regular stuff. Now that I am older and wiser, in the same situation red flags and sirens would be going off in my head and that would probably have been the last straw. But I was young and naive, so continued on in the campaign. Tammy liked her magic bling, and from time to time she'd drop not so subtle hints like "Tim, I would be really nice if my character had a magic staff that did X, Y, and Z.". And then later in the game we'd find as loot a magic staff that did X, Y and Z. But it wouldn't just be a regular staff, there'd be some qualifier like "only one of Elfling blood" could use it, so it obviously became Tammy's property as no one else could use it. But the last straw came in maybe the second or third game session, when at the beginning Tammy mentioned "Tim, I'd really like a unicorn mount. But not just any unicorn...a Palomino Unicorn!". And sure enough, next encounter Tim described a forest clearing where a Palomino Unicorn appeared and signified by a touch of it's horn that it chose the Elfling Mystic Princess to be it's chosen rider. That was the last straw. We made some BS excuse, packed up early and never went back. 20 years later I'm still friends and occasionally game with some of my old friends who were also at the game or heard about it shorly after, and we still talk about the Palomino Unicorn. |