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Thievery is a VERY common story archetype skill set, in almost every genre of literature, save caveman/pre-sapiens Homo sp.. If it hadn't been added as the skill exemplar, fans would have written one anyway. T&T didn't have one until 7th edition... but that's becuase the well meaning guys at...

That their staff are involved in the discussions is official support on an official presence online … … about the minimum to NOT be "dead" in my mind. Especially since the GDPR caused many companies to delete their forums. Some have gone to Discords... others simply have no online official...

Most are not based upon Howard's Conan... most are based on Lin Carter and others' versions. Howard's conan was usually in a shirt, wore chain when expecting to fight, and was muscular but not a body-builder/he-man physique. Only until other authors took over the writing. Then he hits the...

TFT does have Jobs, and thief is a job, with talent and attribute requirements. Those jobs on the list include a bunch that correlate to classes, and provide a reason to take the standard array of skills so your character has downtime employment... Note that the ability to take thief skills is...

CO didn't get the instant uptake, and is still actively discussed on the DP discord. so, not quite dead in the water.

Actually, page description is not the "whole point" of the format. PDF's point was to make PostScript more robust, by including some non-post-script resources, and to rasterize for home use (on screen and on paper) the existing PostScript format on things other than PostScript printers and...

It's always good to keep a stack of premade paper battlemats and a stack of encounter stats. If you build an encounter, getting the stats together, keep a copy filed by Level and difficulty.

D&D 3.0. Party started in Cyclopedia, Wrath of the Immortals campaign. Switched to 3.0 when they turned on the MacGuffin. They are asked to deal with a problem with the don's cold cellar... it's been invaded by Illithids. Party is 9th to 13th level... The cleric of Benekander, the one and only...

See, old school Space Opera largely is NOT Star Wars/Star Trek big battles kind of stuff. Sure, we get some in novels, but a lot of it is small scale. Even some of the military SF is smaller than many would think... Most of the fights in the CoDoVerse are company or battalion deployments, with...

Ha! it will probably outsell their estimates. Preorders early in a game's life are almost always lower sales than the market will support; it's only late in the lifecycle that the preorder approaches capture.

They're classes in DH, too. The vloggers I'm seeing say that are also preachily pro-pathfinder or pro-D&D. They have a vested interest in not wanting people switching... gamers tend to want to watch their own preferred system. Plus, there's more DH content coming from Darrington...

HTML mangles tables, often is unhappy with custom fonts (which are one of a bunch of ways to use custom symbols; the fonts can scale the symbols with text far better than bitmapped image files, and in fewer files than all but the most obnoxious vector files), and additionally, can become...

The biggest thing is the generators for missions, but there's also the compelling not quite CyberPunk setting, coupled to good rules to play by, and with 2e, the better stress system handling. Most other games, the building stress of hard work is paid token lip service, if covered at all; Alien...

Yes, it did have ways to cheese... since it was a single-pool 4-stat & skills point build. (Essentially, it looks like they borrowed bits of GURPS via the year earlier Man To Man, Combat From GURPS...) I had one point-monger start off with super low rolls for pilot and gunnery. The only real...

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...