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I'd recommend having a look at the Mythras RPG. It's a d100 system with its own free to download setting of Thennla. Mythras is somewhat of a universal gaming engine, but being a descendent of Runequest 6 it's primarily targeted at Sword & Sorcery fantasy. There's no elves, dwarves or any...

As others have said, you just make variations on the 4 core classes to arive at what you want. F-Age (all AGE for that matter) inherits some of True20's DNA, with core classes being few and variable via player choices. Specializations and Talents are the way you tune a F-Age class. Talents in...

Yes, this is the case @ RPG.NET and why you're not allowed to discuss it there. I'm by no means savvy when it comes to OSR flavors of BECMI an B/X. That said, I've played Old-School Essentials a lot and my DMs have told me that the Advanced edition of the Players and Referees Tomes contiain the...

The exact same in the same year, although I bought the hardcover of the PHB. My son still has it and has added to it with an original DMG and some OSRIC books. My 2nd purchase was the Greyhawk Gazetteer in 1980 complete with Darlene's splendid map, which I still have mounted and hanging in the...

So I look at that list and those Essen Spiel attendance numbers are stunning. Question I have...how much of Essen Spiel is TTRPGs these days? I'm well aware it's mostly board games - multitude of images on bordgamegeek that are snapped during the event, has led me to believe that for a while...

As someone who actively homebrews with CE, I personally don't consider it OSR. The freebie CE SRD is based upon Mongoose Traveler 1e, but I don't know of any Referees who use it. Zozer games, Moontoad Publishing and Stellagama Publishing have all published quality CE rule books that differ to...

I prefer to homebrew adventures as opposed to running prewritten, so more of my campaigns would be classified as short. I like variety and currently have 6 TTRPGs I homebrew for, so brewing up a long campaign specifically for one of those dosen't have much appeal. My different circle of players...

Ha ha. That's cool someone here has a forum name of GMMichael. Our GM Michael moved away decades ago, but is still remembered fondly by those players that played at his tables in the early days.

I prefer Archetypes that are defined by cultures or regions. As an example, I'm currently queuing up a SWADE campaign from a prewritten setting, and the archetypes for it are built upon cultures, regions and even factions. The archetypes for sure entail an occupation, but for a number the...

Back in the day -like way back in the 1980s- I played at a table where the GM homebrewed a campaign that used AD&D1e, Traveller and Gamma World. IIRC there was some mechanism for dimensional time shifting and distance Universe travel. So the early history era used AD&D and distant future used...

For me it depends upon the circumstances and to some extent the audience of players. So I voted for "other." For some settings and rulesets, unless the PCs are very green, such identification doesn't present much of a challenge. So I'd roll with the 2nd choice. In other settings however, the...

The regular full price bundle for CC3+ just includes Dungeon Designer, Campaign Cartographer and City Designer. I'd recommend focusing on those at first, if you're looking to make Fantasy themed maps. DD will let you design encounter level maps (& not just those in dungeons), while CC will allow...

Forgive me if it's already been said, but I don't think there's anything perplexing or confusing about Goodman Games' choice or position on this. They see the potential in a product that's based upon best selling TTRPG and their own TTRPG, which is a good seller too. To me it seems to be purely...

If you're not sure of what system, I'd recommend Kobold Presses' Zobeck: Clockwork City Collection. It's the central city for the Midgard World setting, but its jurisdiction extends beyond the walls of the city. The collectors edition combines the previous Streets of Zobeck, The Zobeck...

I'll ditto the recommendation for Blue Planet, albeit I've only ever done a quick read/browse of it and that was years ago. IIRC it's d100 based and I seem to recall it being a more than decent implementation of such rules. The creator of it (Jeffrey Barber) taught oceanography and that's...