Recent content by JConstantine

Back when I first decided to try my hand at GMing, I went looking for any and all advice, and Matt Coville would bring up RHoD repeatedly, so I went looking for a 5e conversion. I recall a thread on GitP that I was going to link, but there's been more since then, which has been collated in this...

I have several thoughts on this. Firstly, as I mentioned previously, it doesn't have to fall to the GM alone; players are encouraged to pitch suggestions for the dice results, so don't be afraid to draw on them (it's not to the taste of every group, but it's an option). Secondly, as also...

Why, yes there is! One for each game line, in fact: Under a Black Sun (EotE), Operation Shadowpoint (AoR), and Lure of the Lost (F&D).

While I pointed out the difference, I disagree that they're incompatible. I don't think it was strictly intended by the designers (they probably wouldn't have split it into 3 game lines otherwise), but, mechanically, it's fine; absolutely nothing breaks. In my group, we started out as EotE...

Well, it broke 700k, so Patrons are unlocked, and overtime mode is currently still going. I wonder if 2LM will ever join the $1M crowdfunding club.

FFG's Star Wars is one of my favourite RPGs, and I think the proprietary dice get an unfairly bad wrap. It's quite possibly the quintessential neo-trad RPG, blending typical trad elements like attributes, skill list and mechanically detailed gear, with the tiered success common to narrative...

2LM are currently live for the final stretch: The tracker is funded, Patrons are the next stretch goal @ €700k, and almost certainly going into have entered overtime mode.

Dero got funded quick. Status cards are also unlocked. Valid point. Forgot it was Way of the Blade, not Sword, and axe is a blade, so you're probably right.

...has got it going on? She's all I want And I've waited so long Grendel, can't you see? You're just not the troll for me I know it might be wrong But I'm gonna slay Grendel's mom

@TheSword opened with referring to The Witcher, and the stories revolving around monsters tend to come in one of two broad varieties: The first is "monster-as-menace". Some monster is a terrorising a local village and its surrounding environs, and needs to be dealt with. However, it's often a...

Examining the human condition through the eyes of a monster is exactly my goal with Vampire: The Masquerade (V5 especially), but that's probably a bit of a cheat (same could be said for the rest of WoD and CoD games), so I'll skip that. What I like about many situations in The Witcher is that...

Coincidentally enough, I was thinking a Total War version of The Last War given their various Warhammer instalments.

Perhaps. I didn't touch Deadfire as I bounced off their not-quite-D&D house system with the first game. They seem to want to focus on their own IPs and not touch licensed properties, though. If we're pure wish-listing, maybe that doesn't matter.

I'd really like a classic isometric RPG for Eberron, but, sadly, I can't think of any studio I'd really consider up to the task these day. A couple of alternatives though: 1. A noir investigation with a protagonist Inquisitive (if not player-created, then Abraxis Wren), made by the team at...

There's various ways to incorporate modern technology into horror, depending on what subgenre of horror you're aiming for. With telephones, sure, you can have a mobile/cell phone run of battery or lose signal at an inopportune moment, or a storm knock out the power for landlines, but active use...