Jürgen Hubert

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Long-time role-player. Translator of old German folk tales.

Main Mastodon account where I share German folk tales is @[email protected].

The Pros and Cons of Fantasy Counterpart Cultures

https://ttrpg.network/post/34449141

What are your thoughts on Andoran?

https://ttrpg.network/post/34373855

What are your thoughts on Andoran? - The TTRPG network

Any long-running published setting is going to have a couple of warts - ones where parts of the audience are going to say: “What the hell were they thinking?” The same is true for Golarion. For the most part, I love the setting, but there are a number of setting elements I find problematic. One of these is Andoran. The best way I can describe it is as: “A fantasy counterpart culture of the post-Revolutionary War United States of America - as retconned through American propaganda.” So while the real world American Revolutionary War was allegedly about “Freedom”, but at the same time reinforced the system of slavery and exploitation of the First Nations - something commonly glossed over in American history - Andoran simply leaves out these ugly aspects and says that Andoran’s revolution was really about fighting for Freedom and Democracy - which they now seek to export to the rest of the world. I mean, I am not opposed to democracies in fantasy settings, or groups of people fighting slavery. But it’s the mixture of these elements with tropes of the nascent USA that really bothers me. What are your thoughts on this?

Oh, there are lots of tales missing. I estimate that there are more than one hundred thousand German folk tales that have been published in the 19th century alone, and there are a bare 755 of them on the wiki (as of this writing).

While I try to translate as many as I can, I am just one guy who does this in my free time. So yeah, there will be gaps.

Interactive Map of German Folk Tales

https://ttrpg.network/post/34291608

Guest article about the Wild Hunt

https://ttrpg.network/post/34279079

I’ve read some other books by Claude Lecouteux, and I am looking forward to reading this one.
The Despair Dragon in particular. I don’t think I have ever seen such a weird-looking dragon.

Well, paying more for stuff is never fun, but the profit margins in the RPG industry are razor thin as it is. Both the employees of Paizo and their freelancers have mouths to feed, and I can understand why they do it.

I’ll continue to buy their stuff as before.

Hexxen 1733 - Warum nur weibliche Hexen?

https://ttrpg.network/post/34158671

This was my very first RPG, back in 1990.

The first piece of advice: Don’t have player character deckers. Make them NPCs. The decking rules are a horrible, horrible mess that takes the action away from the table.