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Calico Games has launched a Kickstarter to produce an expansion for Short Order Heroes. Short Order Heroes is a rules-light story game or a tool to add character to any role-playing game. When your characters want to talk to that guard at the gate, just pull a couple cards to find out he is...

If you want a more cinematic style for initiative, you should check out Marvel Heroics. I forget who gets to go absolutely first, but after each character takes their turn, they decide which character goes next. No repeats until everyone has had a turn. So if you have PCs A, B, and C and...

I'm not involved in the project, but I'm a long time Earthdawn fan. A kickstarter for a new edition launched this week, and it's already going strong. Over 250% of goal.

I can't tell if you are joking or not. The Matrix was Shadowrun's term for the future of the internet a decade before the Matrix movies came out. In fact, the Matrix movie is surprisingly similar to a short story in the 1991 Shadowrun supplement Virtual Worlds. Of course, its mostly just because...

I was a patron for the project, so I'm of course biased. I also have the glorious hardcover version, which seems to be unavailable now. It is my default setting for any fantasy campaign I run. It leaves plenty of room for "vanilla" fantasy, but it has lots of little unique touches that make it...

Always a good thing to remember: If it doesn't require a password to get at, it isn't private on the internet. I have a private forum I run for my personal game. Item stats and house rules show up there. But only my players can get to it because of password protection. In my experience Paizo...

Most of those modules designed for B/X were also used for AD&D. That's how I played them back in the day. There will be modules for Pathfinder Beginner's Box. There already are. Any module for levels 1-5 should do. I for one am looking forward to the Pathfinder E5 Box. ;)

I want to second Roma Imperious, I really enjoyed the main book. GURPS does also have some excellent supplements that are worth reading even if you don't use the system itself.

I could have sworn RPG Now had a feature where a publisher could e-mail people who had purchased their products. Sure, it is harder to reach those who haven't purchased any of them yet. But if you bought one book from them, it would have been cake for a message to go out saying "Last chance to...

I didn't realize how old this thread was until I noticed Gary posted replies. Someone should compile up all of his posts on enworld and archive them somewhere.

I'm curious what you like about Warhammer 2E but dislike about Dark Heresy. They really are based on the same system. Careers aren't quite as flexible, but once you start adding in alternate ranks from Inquisitor's handbook and the like it really does have options. I do think that the other...

I thought the spheres of Dark Dungeons came straight from the Immortals boxed set (or was it the later Wrath of the Immortals set?) Not that Immortals didn't likely have some influence when they designed Spelljammer.

Wizards has always said that Essentials is not a new edition. It isn't meant to be a separate RPG that is distinct from "traditional" 4E. It is a separate product line for 4E geared towards beginners. So they didn't market Heroes of Shadow as an "essentials" book because it isn't essential. It...

I totally agree with you. What I was trying to find out is: what makes a supplement any more "kitchen sink" than another supplement? WotC produces books that provide new options. How many of those options are included is up to the GM. How is this book more "kitchen sink" than every other book...

Am I the only one who things the map is the least important aspect of the adventure? The only real advantage of using the actual map is that if you buy the map folio it is very pretty and professionally done. But the best part of the adventure is how modular it is. Encounters or lairs are...

I don't get the comment about "kitchen sink". Isn't PHB 2 or PHB 3 "kitchen sink"? Maybe I'm used to a different definition, but I thought "kitchen sink" campaigns throw all available races/classes/options together. Hasn't that been 4E's philosophy from the beginning? That "everything is core"...

The sandbox nature of the adventures would make them easy to convert. Even if you don't want to run them straight, the first couple books are excellent examples of how to set up a wilderness campaign. There are basically a lot of isolated wilderness encounters, plus several mini-dungeon sites...

I have read OSRIC and S&W. I do think they do a good job of keeping legal. I also think that it is a murky enough issue that even though it is probably defensible in court, Wizards could still bring a suit to bear that would crush any small company in legal fees. Justifiable or not, you'd need...

The thing to remember is that Clark was a lawyer and is now a judge. He takes a conservative view of licenses. He wanted to support 4E and the GSL. But as a lawyer, he couldn't sign the GSL because it gave away too many of his rights. As a lawyer, he wouldn't support retro-clones because he...

I doubt the Red Box boosted hobby channel sales. It was designed exclusively to be an impulse buy at places like Target and Barnes and Noble. On the other hand, the rest of the essentials line has gone over well with 4E players. Most of the people I heard complaining about Essentials were people...