Recent content by aramis erak

Chaosium C&D's pendragon character sheets.

Relatively Light, 2.5/5 : CT (either), T2300/2300AD Moderately crunchy (3.5/5) : MT, MgT1, MgT2, T20, HT Rather crunchy (4/5) : TNE, T4, GT, GTIW, T5 I'd put D&D 5 core triplet only at about 2.5, as well... and about 3.0 with splats. If you stick solely to core, drop half a point (full point...

Compared to Mothership, D&D 5 is pretty crunchy, too. And for such a simple game, it managed to make the first few releases horribly laid out.

I generally prefer GMing to being just a player. There are significant bits that are effort consuming, but often enjoyable: Adventure/dungeon design encounter design setting development VTT prep developing my cheat sheets for the rules learning new rulesets (be they editions or whole new...

I'm one who has allowed such use in D&D and DH. (Haven't got ToV, A5E, et cetera.) It's perfectly on brand for both Wises & Circles in BW/BE/MG. Circles if you need to use them in some way, wises if just knowing them. And in 2d20, where knowing them can be generating a trait on yourself, them...

They decided, unlike Mystara and Birthright, to zipyank Star Frontiers from the fan caretaker site... and monetize the core rules and adventures.

Let me be more clear: it needs a science fiction setting, not yet another space fantasy setting.

Sunday AOU: Killed responsible god; umbra ended.

I already had trust issues with WotC. The OGL debacle was just confirmation of their corporatist agenda. I have to laugh when I read/watch the news about MTG players and shareholders suing WotC/HasBro over devaluing MTG. I saw the writing on the walls with Tasha's, and the revised...

I find it T5E a repugnant idea on multiple levels - first off is brand confusion with T5. second is that I don't see D&D 5E/ WSRD5.x as being good for the style of play that Traveller generally encourages third, it means that Star Frontiers is less likely to get a new edition I may be a...

Charisma is harder. Those who are charismatic generally can't play uncharismatic well, and those who are personally uncharismatic simply don't know how to be charismatic. Intelligence, the smart guy can play being low-intelligence. The GM can use attribute saves to guide the low-intelligence...

the cons are small... both... but very fun. Not as small as my favorite from back in AK... Denali Con was held at Mountain Mary's McKinley View Lodge - a private business inside Denali National Park, which said park contains Mount McKinley. (Diatribe of history deleted). The lodge has about 10...

Corvallis, Oregon, has C3 Con, which is hybrid board, RPG, and anime/manga fandom, but is leaning more to RPG each time. Cheap, too... April 11-12 this year. Small, but fun. Run by the Covallis Community Center. Just A Game Con may resurrect this year, too - it died during lockdown. Also in...

There's a good SRD... https://freeleaguepublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/YZE-Standard-Reference-Document.pdf But it's not a game engine, but a game construction kit, with rules from almost all the YZE games in a smorgasbord of mechanics. Basically, two trees: d6 dice pool of...

I don't track the C7 Warhammer releases. Mork Borg and TOR/LOTR are not theirs; they just publish them for the designers.