Recent content by aramis erak

I have run MW 1e and MW 2e, have read MW3, have and have read ATOW and Destiny. If I run a BT campaign, it will either be MW 2 or MW:D, with BF1 or BF2 for the large scale engagements. I love the pre-clans setting... never cared for them, and that drove me out of playing with friends, since...

I had a Kindle Oasis; screen was too small for anything but novels and manga for me. And there are a few I've got from people who clearly didn't know the way PDF as a format actually works, do things like have the same image on a given page 7 times in the same spot. or having an EPS or SVG...

It's the combination of non-adobe-standard fonts, number of fonts on a page, number of graphics per page, proper flattening, total document length, and the availability of RAM. Back in 2002 or so, I bought a PDF, and it was all straight postscript art... and Acrobat Reader crashed on page...

Could be a distributor issue, as minimum order sizes, mixed shipment allowance, and such factor in. My FLGS doesn't have DH on the shelf, despite me running it for a few months now.

Wrong about that. Many are using tablets or eReaders for content consumption, and those have limited storage and limited RAM. My 10.5" likebook's page turn rate is severely limited by document size and complexity. Sentinel Comics was pretty much unusable. Alien PF was pretty quick, Similar...

I found Horde of the DQ and its sequel a good balance, save for the maps being hard to read. Same for Princes of the Apocalypse and Out of the Abyss, likewise, tho' clearly OotA was leaning a bit more towards reading. I had very few issues book to table with them. I skipped the rest. The DDAL...

I've not run MYZ itself, but a bunch of other YZE (Year Zero Engine) game, and I've read MYZ. It's pretty straightforward. It's in the same semi-silly tone as Gamma World. It's a bit more narrow in focus, but there are a number of Note that Dragonbane isn't a YZE game... The core mechanics are...

⚀ Old Battlestar Galactica. Including the comics and novels, in a decent system; Cortex Plus or Savage Worlds come to mind. With a landholding-style management game for ships. ⚁ Mekton's Operation Rimfire. Prior groups rejected due to all pregens. ⚂ Twilight Sword - tho' that won't be available...

there are system preview notes you get access to with that €1. the memorable bits 1d12, roll low. Hope is a metacurrency for campaign completion. Advantage/Disadvantage. Cards in the starter for streamlining play, for mapping, and some other uses.

When possible, as a player, I prefer to avoid them. As a GM, I hate running the metaplot factions in many games, since they often result in either mono-faction parties and someone's blocked from their favorite faction, or highly contrived multi-faction parties, or a bunch of rebels against the...

I banned someone from the Traveller boards a couple years back for making that comment after violating half the board rules in their first week. Actually, a couple folk for similar. It's not been acceptable on most of the boards I've been on since the 80's (yes, BBS days, pre-public internet...

Osteomancy - divination from throwing bones scapulamancy - divination using the scapula, more correctly being a subset of pyromancy - the bone is placed in fire, and the fire left for a time, and then reading (literally) the resulting cracks as if writing. Shang Dynasty era, IIRC, but still...

Varies widely. My VTT group, it's just maps and critters in the VTT. Pendragon, I do 4-12 page 5.5x8.5" booklets for each "year" - mostly cut and paste from the GPC campaign book PDF, then outline and stat blocks for the adventures. If I have PC landholders, I make their event rolls, too, and...

IME, people are less willing to pursue disagreement based discussion FTF, often out of fear of violence/harm, be that social, verbal or physical. Social violence includes bullying those associated with the target, blocking the target's participation, public ridicule. It's used on most BBSs as...

no boards I've partcipated on since about 1999 has it been mutual, including the ones I've been a moderator on. The person muting is the only one affected. Certain feed based slcial media do have it mutual.