Recent content by aramis erak

I've not run MYZ itself, but a bunch of other YZE (Year Zero Engine) game, and I've read MYZ. It's pretty straightforward. It's in the same semi-silly tone as Gamma World. It's a bit more narrow in focus, but there are a number of Note that Dragonbane isn't a YZE game... The core mechanics are...

⚀ Old Battlestar Galactica. Including the comics and novels, in a decent system; Cortex Plus or Savage Worlds come to mind. With a landholding-style management game for ships. ⚁ Mekton's Operation Rimfire. Prior groups rejected due to all pregens. ⚂ Twilight Sword - tho' that won't be available...

there are system preview notes you get access to with that €1. the memorable bits 1d12, roll low. Hope is a metacurrency for campaign completion. Advantage/Disadvantage. Cards in the starter for streamlining play, for mapping, and some other uses.

When possible, as a player, I prefer to avoid them. As a GM, I hate running the metaplot factions in many games, since they often result in either mono-faction parties and someone's blocked from their favorite faction, or highly contrived multi-faction parties, or a bunch of rebels against the...

I banned someone from the Traveller boards a couple years back for making that comment after violating half the board rules in their first week. Actually, a couple folk for similar. It's not been acceptable on most of the boards I've been on since the 80's (yes, BBS days, pre-public internet...

Osteomancy - divination from throwing bones scapulamancy - divination using the scapula, more correctly being a subset of pyromancy - the bone is placed in fire, and the fire left for a time, and then reading (literally) the resulting cracks as if writing. Shang Dynasty era, IIRC, but still...

Varies widely. My VTT group, it's just maps and critters in the VTT. Pendragon, I do 4-12 page 5.5x8.5" booklets for each "year" - mostly cut and paste from the GPC campaign book PDF, then outline and stat blocks for the adventures. If I have PC landholders, I make their event rolls, too, and...

IME, people are less willing to pursue disagreement based discussion FTF, often out of fear of violence/harm, be that social, verbal or physical. Social violence includes bullying those associated with the target, blocking the target's participation, public ridicule. It's used on most BBSs as...

no boards I've partcipated on since about 1999 has it been mutual, including the ones I've been a moderator on. The person muting is the only one affected. Certain feed based slcial media do have it mutual.

Mouse Guard is excellent - and my second impression when I confront Anthro-games. Albedo is first. Note that both Albedo games (Thoughts & Images version, a 2d6 based game, and the Sanguine house engine dice step one, are on Drive Thru)... Which also leads to their others on Sanguine's house...

My prep:‌play ratio varies by system and mode of play. For my current sunday online group, using Daggerheart, looks like about 1:2 to 1:3... Buffy, FTF, back in 08 or so, 1.5:1. Traveller, typically between 1:20 and 1:4... Star Wars, either WEG or FFG, 1:4 to 1:10.

the several months with no new products during the transition, plus killing the forums several months prior to that when Asmodee first bought FFG, did not help sales at all. And seeing the FFG SW staff, the people who knew the game, kicked to the curb or migrated to boardgames was also not...

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...