Recent content by Elvish Lore

Cortext Prime thinks 5e and Daggerheart are total amateurs. And writing this all out, it's maybe a good reason I've come to loathe Cortex. Roll the dice: Roll all the dice in the assembled pool ( based on their relevant traits. Traits are typically grouped into sets like Attributes and Skills...

100% this. I recently wrapped a year long Genesys urban fantasy campaign and the amount of cognitive overload I was dealing was exhausting. Running DH with very similar ideas of 'bad meta-currency accrual' is just way easier. Even before I started reading DH, I was thinking of hacking into...

Yea, if I were to institute Aspects into the game, I would use one Hope to set up a temporary Aspect on a scene. I actually found in play people were maxing out on Hope and setting up Aspects seems like a fine outlet for that resource. Also, it'll correct itself if there's an issue - if they...

Ok, ran the game for the first time. An incredibly positive experience for me personally and for pretty much everyone at the table (6 players). A noteworthy thing: Combat was way more engaging for everyone at the table compared to the usual d20 slog I go through with 5e or P2e - everyone was...

Nice! That’s ton of new material and harkens well for the immediate future of this game.

Sure but how was Paizo supposed to virtue signal by using the same license that their greatest enemy is using?!

Campaign frames are homebrew settings which, fine, but I couldn't care less about seeing more of those. What I personally want is below: Give me LOTS more play tested Domain powers for pre-existing Domains. Give me more subclasses for everything. More classes. That's it. In that order.

ok, I will say I love when Matt corrects Travis on how helping works in Ep 3. That is... Travis (and then the other players) started referring to helping in a shorthand manner by saying they were giving Hope to another player. Matt took the moment to say, no... players can't give hope as a...

Good point. And it was a good idea to showcase DH in that manner.

Age of Umbra isn't remotely grim-dark. This isn't low-tier Warhammer Fantasy or Mothership-level dark. AoU has a grim aesthetic but... there's nothing mechanically enforcing this except for the scar = corruption mechanic. Otherwise, it's heroic fantasy through and through -- PCs are...

I’ve worked in the entertainment industry for years as an executive, and I’ve seen this a lot… Especially with newer production companies. The principals hire someone in a VIP position for where they're at as a company (they're growing, looking for projects and investment)...and then they bide...

I backed Nimble but I will admit it's hard for me to get excited about it in a year where games like Draw Steel and Daggerheart -- that both question basic assumptions about heroic fantasy roleplay and evolve in cool directions -- are getting released vs. games like Nimble and DC20 that both end...

Hot take but not that hot I think: CR is done with very long campaigns. Everyone thinking C4 will be 3-4 years long but... I think that model is done. I don't think the numbers make sense anymore... their viewership dwindles over the long run and the length becomes this obstacle to getting new...

No idea they were printing in the U.S. I didn't back the KS and don't get updates.

Why weird? Current tariffs on Italian goods coming into U.S. are 20%... 10% during the 90-days pause period.