Recent content by kronovan

With that phrase, you're more or less describing me. Well I've been around WH40k tabletop play for years, I've only actually sat down to it a handful of times. I'm too much of a Battletech geek to break away from BT sessions at our tabletop club's monthly meets to play WH. Before IM, the only...

The Shadow system in Adventures in Middle Earth (D&D 5e variant), has some features that could be thought of as karma. The ever persistent nature of Shadow can lead to situations or circumstances where a PC may become corrupted. Corruption can occur by traveling through blighted lands, from...

For me it depends upon the game and the audience of players. One of the games I run is Old School Essentials and for dungeon forays it by default requires time keeping. I'd pefer to loosen it up, but I've found that PCs generally tend to fare better (i.e. die less) if its rules around time are...

Ditto this. :-)

Savage Worlds has been an upgrade with each new edition; SWADE > SWD > SWEX. I felt that Shadowrun 3 was an upgrade over SR2, as was it over SW1. Every SW edition since 3 has IMO been a downgrade; albeit I did find SR4 playable. Call of Cthulhu 7 was an upgrade of CoC 6. Mongoose Traveller 2 was...

TBH I wouldn't run a TTRPG where I felt it couldn't be run RAW for at least the 1st couple of sessions. I only returned to TTRPGs 15 years ago, and in that time I've seen more houserules that were detrimental than beneficial. I agree with the sentiment, that you can't always garner how well a...

I'm going to revisit it with another read of my PDF. One of the challengs I have in my TTRPG circles, is that it'd be competing with STA, SWADE+SFC, MGT2e, Cepheus Engine, M-Space and BRP for table time. It was really a coup for me to get one of my groups to agree to a STA campaign - was helped...

Of all the TTRPGs I own, 2d20 more than other systems is one you need to experience the dice rolling on the table before it make sense. The only other TTRPG I own that's similar in that regard is The Dark Eye. So those posting comments here who've only watched game plays, before jumping to a...

I really like this idea. For TTRPG with life path creation, I own Mongoose Traveller 2, Star Trek Adventures, Cepheus Engine, A Time of War (Battletech) and Mythras. As well, I consider FATE Core to be a life path TTRPG if the party of PC's use the technique of defining aspects in a...

I posted a similar question on another forum recently and was told the CRB is all you really need, but the Macharian Requisition Guide is recommened. Since then one of my groups bought me the CRB and MRG. The Players and GMs Guide are actually the Inquisition PG and Inquisition GMG and are for...

I'm a bit confused here. Are you saying you have the both the Wrath & Glory and Imperium Maledictum CRBs? I ask, because one of my groups just bought me the Imperium Maledictum CRB and Macharian Requisition Guide. I'm really liking IM (IMO one of the better implementations of d100 yet) and I'd...

I don't know if this would count, but there's Ultramodern5. It's a variant of D&D 5e designed to support modern settings. It is a universal/toolkit TTRPG, written to support multiple, modern genres. It differs from other varaints that adapt 5e to specific genres, like Esper Genesis (Sci-Fi)...

I really like Fate Accelerated for CONs, because it's flexible, people get it once the FATE dice are rolling and young folks -especially teens- tend to run with it. I've mostly run and played it at CONs as 1-shots, but I can envision it working for 3 episodic, linked sessions. Speaking of post...

Just an aside...but I'd pay for scented dice that smelt like the stinkiest beasts in an accompanying bestiary. I do realize it could drive some players from the table, but WOW the immersion factor! Although scent-tight storage for them could be real challenging. 🤑

Thats why we need in-country POD for game publications. And along with it, an empahsis on improving the quality. Were this to happen, I wouldn't be suprised that customers' demands for quality would be better received by a in-country POD biz. As it stands, driverthru seems to address once it...