Metal & Monsters:
What is Metal & Monsters? It is an effort to make a pretty fucking awesome fantasy RPG blog and resource, in a mold which I wouldn't call definitively either old-school or new-school or whatever, but one that can basically be picked up and played without a lot of fuss. It is intended to be something you can basically plug into your game as needed.
It is also intended to be, as the name implies, totally fucking metal.
What does it mean to be metal? It means that there is going to be way more emphasis on awesome adventures than stuff like character angst or setting fluff. Your job is to be an awesome adventurer who slays monsters, steals treasure and has kickass adventures in strange and dangerous places- and then goes and blows all their money in epic afterparties back in town. One could have urban adventures in a metal world as well, but they have to be totally metal cities, filled with bizarre architecture, improbable monsters and evil death cults.
This isn't intended to be taken "seriously". It's intended to be awesome, and for you to have fun being awesome.
No game system can guarantee that you will be totally fucking awesome, but Metal & Monsters will do its best to help you do just that, whatever system you might use. Note that this does not mean you will be invulnerable or that you won't be challenged- characters in 4th ed belong to shiny comic books, not gritty pulp novels or metal album covers. You are not a superhero. You may very well die, but you will die awesomely. That orc won't just hit you with an axe and inflict 8 damage, it will fucking split your skull in two and then eat your brains because it believes that it will gain your metal-ness by doing so. Note that you may very well decide to do the same goddamn thing to that orc.
A metal game is a game where you can totally eat a demon's heart and still be one of the good guys. This is not the sort of game where you angst over killing a goblin because they're humanoid too. You can pretty much assume that most everything out there is out to fucking kill you, eat you and offer up your immortal soul to its demon-god. Good thing you're going to kill them first.
In all seriousness though, most of the rules in the game will be useable in a more generic and less totally metal game as well. That's okay, too.
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