Recent content by aramis erak

by page count, it's between 1/4 and 1/3. the lore dumps are fully 1/5 of the text, and don't overlap much. the vehicles have about 1/5 to 1/4 overlap, the NPC templates 1/4 to 1/3. It's FAR less than half.

Deadlands, L5R, and Castle Falkenstein have all had people come to the game from the fiction. I've had people looking for games because they read the fiction. CF, I never saw them in game stores... only at B&N. And then a player gifted me with 3 of them. The L5R fiction for 5E was much hyped...

I should note: I, as a GM, put the list of standard advantage spends and threat spends in player hands. It makes a HUGE difference in initial experience. It lets them quickly understand the symbols - as I have a font with them - and it behooves them to use it. Different players tend to different...

Sunday Daggerheart: brutalized Cast, saved the Flame.

The Gatekeeper is a great campaign... but absolutely requires at least two jedi. I found the Edge ones less than I wanted, tho' Jewel of Yaavin is pretty good. Just in Edge... Smuggler campaigns? You definitely want the Smuggler and Technician splats for their additional materials. Colonist...

Unless you're using the force a lot, a table lookup is dead simple for force dice. The Genesys dice are more available than the star wars, and are functionally identical to their SW siblings, just have to know the symbols. Just don't get the dice from L5R nor WFRP 3 - different types, symbols...

Traveller merchant ships typically being crews of 4-10... by size of drives... Looking at the DTRPG full-size preview, they're talking cargo pods of 1000 Td... so we're looking crews of 6-20. More like Leslie Fish's Route 40 in space - a clearly multi-crew vessel. Firefly also compares...

For comparison: Genesys dice. Note the colors are the same, the labels for the symbols and dice are the same, and the distributions are the same, only the symbols really differ. The Genesys roller is free... the SW one is merely inexpensive.

Wookies in goal! Beware the rebound!

What do you want to know? I'll start with the elements I tell players ahead of character gen... The most important element is building the dice pools. Take as many yellows as the lower of Att or Skill. Take greens equal to the difference of Att and Skill. Take blues as directed or previously...

Matt's Cavalcade of Comics... In the main door, turn half-left, it's 4' × 6' racks 2 and 3. Rack 1 on that wall is part of the boardgames, as are 3 racks to the right, a half-height rack in the middle, with 2 off the corners, and another behind, then a double sided full height rack, plus 3...

All the ones I mentioned, save 7th Sea, have spawned fiction; most of the Traveller ones were not licensed. (Marc's Agent isn't licensed since he still owned the IP when he released it; Jeff Swycaffer wasn't using the OTU. Chuck Gannon's work is very Traveller inspired - he was, before his...

certain deep lore settings feel licensed even tho' they're not: L5R, WoD, 7th sea, Traveller. For D&D, all the various ones generated licensed media - but many came to D&D from them, and so they function like licensed settings, especially FR and DL.