Recent content by aramis erak

Re C&S I have 1st, 4th, and either 2nd or 3rd ( don't know) — all 3 have small fonts and tables aplenty. I don't know about 5th... Re T&T & buckets of dice... It's not bad at low levels, but as the adds get silly.... so do the dice for monsters.

Alien and Dragonbane also do likewise. It's a great design idea.

No, but from a fan perspective, something far worse: both Star Wars and L5R are not getting good support. Couple that to the US distributor going bankrupt... and tariffs... and getting the one new L5R book is worse than getting teeth pulled, especially given that most of my local dentists have 6...

Retreater, a serious question: do your players already play any other OSR or genuine Old School games? If so, are they D&D mechanics? (OE, Holmes Basic, BX/BECMI/Cyclo, EG, OSE, DCC, S&W, AS&SOH, etc) The mechanical differences of C&C for the old school player are signifcant, even as it's not...

Tempting me to dig out my axe and get an FX box... an inheritance from a friend's dad. (Friend in question is not musically inclined.)

As a GM, yes, mostly to distinguish various NPCs in a scene with multiple. As a player, accents and pacing changes in character, so long as no one complains.

Banished? Not Dead? Returns when???

Sun Daggerheart Skeletons aplenty, Spectres many, Treasures!

Last week I got the official Daggerheart dice set. It's a green and purple set, d4, d6, d8, d10, d10×10, d12, and d20, plus a clear with purple haze and a clear with green haze d12. The clear d12s and the d20 have the daggerheart logo on the highest face. The green and purple d12 does NOT have...

My current dungeon has a very schematic Environment: Umbral Concentration Tier Ⅱ. Terrain difficulty 10 - the complex was professionally engineered, and those original engineers are still maintaining it in their unlife. Magic difficulty 18 Restless Dead: the dead rise automatically as "fresh...

That it's not yet public domain hasn't stopped many. Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea being the key exemplar, but not the only OSR game in the space, using the setting. The trademark, however, is still current, so if you want the name Conan on the cover, you still will need a...

The UK, until 1974, used to use 1 Billion as 1 million million, ie, 1e12, while the US has always used 1000 million (1e9) as a billion. Many older news agencies avoid using Billion as part of their style manuals because of the issue of "which billion"... tho' most of the anglophone world is...

And Action, action, action! Much of which is not enemies. Environments are important, and good enemies are, too. If one can pull it off, the Villain Monoguing to his minion as an interlude is a very pulpy thing.

I've used Savage Worlds for Deadlands, and it felt VERY pulpy. de-pulping SW looks to be a fool's errand. I also played Spirit of the Century (and not as the GM!) and it was also a great pulp feel. Complete with over the top villain on a bee theme. And I was a wall crawler in a trench coat...

Tables aplenty in all the editions I have three - red cover FGU edition, another that I can't check because it's burried, and Rebirth which asserts itself as 4th edition. I know a lot of SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) folk who swear by it, and a another few who swear at it. Note that...