Recent content by Retreater

I like the Army Painter brand - their "Fanatic" line of acrylics is very good. The starter set comes with a tutorial brochure and a brush. (Without getting too in depth, there are "new" types of paints called Contrast or Speed Paint. They can give medium+ results with less effort - but they have...

Ok. But there are similarities which make some players question. Like here's a cloud giant. But he's different than the other cloud giants because he has different clothes. So we should trust him? Like here's a floating tower, but it's not a castle. So we should trust him? Like here's a cloud...

It really fell apart for us. Here's my advice. You really need to change the meeting of the giant in the floating tower. It's set up to look like he had destroyed the village - and my group absolutely didn't trust him. He is the only one who knows the story, so my group NEVER understood what was...

Sure. We're Dice & Done. We're not close to being in the big leagues, but we're having fun with it. So far we've done Daggerheart, Wildsea, Vaesen, and a few other games. It will be a few weeks until TMNT is recorded and posted.

I haven't heard it yet, and I won't be seeking it out. But I am looking forward to hearing it. Makes me think of my dad, who thought it was the best "modern" Christmas song, despite not being a fan of 80s music.

I bit off more than I can chew and agreed to present Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness RPG (recently reprinted) on a podcast next week. It was my first RPG, and I remember being confused by it when I was 10 years old. I didn't think I would be confused with almost 40...

I'm running two campaigns in Daggerheart. Both groups are loving it, and it's a natural fit for my GMing style (after searching for decades). My biggest concern was that there's not enough content in the core set to play for many years (unlike games like D&D or Pathfinder). So I'm very pleased...

My second was AD&D 2nd edition. My first was TMNT and Other Strangeness by Palladium.

Cynthia Williams worked her magic again.

I'd love to make it through The Enemy Within. So far, I've made it through Book One a couple times.

The most difficult part (maybe the only difficult part) of going with Daggerheart for both games I'm running is the divorce from the rest of the hobby. I'm not following what is going on with D&D. I'm not going to be using or buying the new Forgotten Realms books. There's really nothing going...

Yeah. I had two challenging fights (on separate sessions) that ended up with death moves for a character each. They had the options to take the safer route, but each player took the risky choice - and one failed. Fortunately, they took it in stride because it was their decision. Still, I do...

Well, I haven't been posting much about this campaign, but we've been playing regularly (biweekly) for a couple months. They really enjoyed the minigame of collecting scrap to augment their weapons (Ikonis). My wife is using her "puzzle" brain to decipher the Kohd puzzles. We had an epic fight...

Since moving to GMing Daggerheart, I prep about 15 minutes for each 2 hours played.

So I am running two Daggerheart campaigns. I just noticed that Heroforge has these ancestries. I'm trying to understand the model, but it wasn't clear from the website. Is it that I have to pay to get access to be able to buy a miniature? I'm really confused.