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4 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook Lots of fun classes with a really nice rule system. There's a return to story telling, rather than simulation that I like. I just wish they went further in that direction.

3 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual Good luck finding that right challenge rating creature or the perfect monster to be found in the mountains. The only organization is alphabetical. That said, some nice monsters with great art.

5 out of 5 rating for The Strange Corebook Most of the alternate worlds are created as fiction on earth, and take on a reality out in the strange, a malevolent world of dark matter and beings that eat planets. Clean, easy rules, and you can mix and match most of the creatures and items from...

5 out of 5 rating for Numenera Core Rulebook My favorite setting coupled with fast, easy mechanics. A joy to GM, I especially love giving out GM Intrusions.

I've moved to a one laptop solution using the Blue Snowball mic and Google hangouts. I'm GMing Ashen Stars in a mixed environment and Trail of Cthulhu all remote. I'm getting in the grove now.

Thank you. They are there. We never noticed them, or at least I never did. And after I opened my big mouth, the GM made every NPC a primary one. :)

Wow, we never knew about these three types. Is this new with the Game of Thrones edition, or did we miss it? The secondary character sounds like what we were looking for. None of these terms are in my index (ASoIaF, Pocket Edition).

Combat: The colorful Minion Rules (from Dark Heresy, Creatures Anathema) were great. Lots of crits and nasty deaths. Only War might have those baked in, but the jist is each minion gets 2 wounds. Any hit past armour and toughness does 1 wound, unless it does more than 10. If 10+ wounds, go...

I've played ASoIaF, but I don't know if they changed the rules for the Game of Thrones edition. Maybe they included the errata. In any case, we found that combat heavy types (knights, for example) had little challenge in combat vs. NPCs with the rules as written. Only PCs and "the most...

For Rogue Trader, I adapted Paizo's Plot Twist Cards to 40K. Big fun and my players enjoyed throwing plot twists at me. One problem some groups have with the mechanics is that it seems that the players fail all the time. 30% chance to hit is 70% chance for failure. As Dark Heresy starts at the...

I love Dominion, the deck building game. The core game comes with 25 Kingdom card piles, and in each game you only use 10 piles, so lots of replay, plus there are many expansions out there. This is a game I enjoy even if I lose. I just like trying to build up gold so I can build up victory points.

I'm running Ashen Stars, a Gumshoe game. And not using minis. But I'll check out Maptools none the less.

Any advice for a mixed group? 3 local, 2 remote? I want the remote players to feel like they are at the table, and the locals to feel like they get to know the remotes. I'm running Ashen Stars (Gumshoe), no minis. I've tried Google Hangouts with the dice roller Bones, but both Hangouts and...

BRP is so easy to learn I can tell you the core mechanic from memory: Gameplay: Every skill is a percentile chance. Roll that number or under to get a success. If you succeed, put a little check mark by the skill. Character Advancement: At the end of the session, find all checked skills. Roll...

From Monte's blog: "Any kind of action taken by a player character in the game can be assigned to a stat. Jumping is a Might action. Dodging an attack is a Speed action. Talking your way past a guard is an Intellect action. And so on. This is only really relevant, however, if the action in...

I've played a lot of Traveller, and the setting has always bothered me. It's so obviously implausible yet is presented in all seriousness. It's a mashup of multinationals, the Roman Empire, and feudal Europe. Aliens include cats and dogs. Since most people live only on one planet, and each...

I've attempted to do this a few times, and had more flops than successes. No matter what the rules are, some of my players were not excited at all about managing a battle. They roleplayed a *character* and unless their character was a military commander, adding mass combat they had to direct...

That's right. Ashen Stars has a pretty simple combat system. It wouldn't take much effort to add mechanized suits. It's got psi, AI, nanobots in your bloodstream, and tons of cybernetics. If you want to add complexity to the personal combat system, you can steal from other Gumshoe games...

You could do Trail of Cthulhu (Pelgrane Press), using the Pulp Rules option. PCs survive (mostly) and can grow to kick ass. There are sanity and stability rules, but the Pulp versions makes it easy to keep rolling. Fun system, and you can pull in modern weapons and Thriller Combat Rules from...

I played the Game of Thrones RPG (A Song of Ice and Fire, Green Ronin) and it's very low fantasy, and very gritty. While we had a great time in the campaign, we found the combat RAW rather one sided for combat heavies like knights, who could rip apart foes without breaking a sweat. Then our GM...