Pledge is to get some painting done during my week off.

Negative comments can be helpful as it can encourage conversation that may convince the naysayer that they are wrong.

I owned the gurps version of discworld and found it difficult to run as it’s hard to write comedy.

Discworld as a skirmish game seems pointless as without the humour a discworld skirmish game is just a skirmish game.

Pledge:: Buying new furniture .  I have my eye on a new furniture edition to my hobby studio.  It may solve my center table filling up problem.  Maybe……  If I buy it tomorrow I’ll try to post some pictures.

Questions of the week:

1)  Should you post when you don’t like something? Under almost every article on OTT is a finishing phrase like “Are you tempted to give Daggerheart a go?”. Should you answer that question even if it’s negative?
2)    Guards! Guards! – Would a Discworld skirmish game work? Or is the setting just for RPG?

Answers ::

1)  Replying if you don’t like something is <b>OK</b> as long as you are civil and explain why.  BUT, at least for me, the complaint that something is bad because it’s too expensive is not a reason to call an item bad.  I always look at it this way,  ‘if the item was free would I be interested in it?  Would I have need of it?  Would it benefit my hobby?  Also, it really puts me off when something is not of the Poster’s artistic flavor and then instead of just saying, “This art style is not for me”, they proceed to stand on their soap box and spout why their choice of art is much better and almost holy in comparison to ” this thing “, and that they are a better person for their choice of art!  (I’ll get off my soapbox now) ?

2)  Could a “Discworld skirmish game work” ?  I usually don’t think of skirmish games as comedic.  Never tried one so I’ll not pass judgement at this time.  BUT   I think that an RPG of Discworld is possible as long as your players are comedic by nature.

PS……I do like Daggerheart!  I’m already incorporating parts of it into a current RPG campaign.

@sundancer I had a look at that Kickstarter and I “Like” the skeletons a bunch.  I could see those in the rotation for my fantasy RPGs. ??

I’m curious how many people here have read many full Discworld novels, a lot of the responses are something along the lines of “you can’t play humour” The Discworld stories are fantasy stories and while sometimes there are humourous comments the setting and stories themselves aren’t.

It would be like saying you can’t play a western skirmish game because Clint’s character(s) sometimes made a joke.

The Discworld is at the end of the day just another fantasy setting, the last time I checked there are plenty of other fantasy games out there that people enjoy playing, GoT fans haven’t complained about the lack of fucking on the tabletop for example.

@avernos I’ve read around 30 Discworld novel and did try running a campaign with gurps, but it didn’t last long.

I didn’t like gurps rules set and it did not fit Discworld well in my opinion…

Prachett wrote comedic situations, not gags.

My biggest concern with modiphius doing Discworld is that they will probably just do another 2d20 variant and although the system is ok… it’s not great.

It may end up as just a generic fantasy system set in discworld and if that’s the case it seems pointless. Pratchett fans will know more than enough about Discworld to use an existing rules system to run a campaign set there. Those unfamiliar with Discworld may just run it as straight fantasy and not appreciate the setting fluff.

But that’s just my opinion.

first full weekend of 1:1 scale terrain done 🙂

And as they say : “Fischer Duo Plugs for the win ”

Finished my Kallax 4×2 builds that will form the basis of my wargaming table. The Scandawegian store also sells a set of legs for these. Not quite sure if the height is good, but time will tell.

I think I shall attempt to paint some doors, doorframes and walls next time I’m at my new place.
Need paint, but I’ve got a fairly good idea as to what colour scheme I want to try.

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(1) Should tell when you don’t like something? Under almost every article on OTT is a finishing phrase like “Are you tempted to dive Daggerheart a go?”. Should you answer that question even if it’s negative?
I’d say that lame negative comments are as bad as lame positive ones.
Not sure if people need prompts to add their opinions to a news post … but that’s just me.

(2) Guards! Guards! – Would a Discworld skirmish game work? Or is the setting just for RPG?

I’m not a fan of trying to convert one medium to another. It can work, but usually it’s not as good as the source material.

Not sure how a skirmish game would work, unless it was something that wasn’t purely combat focused. The guards of whatever skirmish game does sound like something that could be adapted to Discworld.

RPG is tricky too. I’d argue that there are too many known characters each linked to their own stories that makes interacting with them tricky. It’d be like trying to meet Gandalf or the dwarves in Lord of the Rings.  You need a big enough blank canvas so you can avoid “important” npc’s and events while still capturing the theme of the source material.

I’d also argue that it needs a rpg system that can handle the theme. GURPS always sounded like a counterintuitive choice for a setting like this.

Paranoiia (early versions) and The Monty Python RPG both achieve this by focussing on the absurdity of the subject and making it part of the rules and gameplay. Maybe a Discworld themed RPG should be a bit more like that ?
Free League Publishing appear to be adept at adapting their system to various licenses, but I’m not sure if they could handle Discworld.

I wonder if an adapted version of the “Toon” rpg could work.

https://www.sjgames.com/toon/