Recent content by kronovan

For the WotC adventure maps, you need to buy the bundles on the D&D store, as those include both the printed and digital publications. As an example, here's the bundle for Dungeon Delves. IME though, it's not too big a problem if you only have the printed, as maps within the books can be...

Haven't been in that situation, but were I to be, SWADE would probably be my go-to. Mostly because I've homebrewed a lot for it and also have a decent library of 1st & 3rd party content for it, across virtually all genres. It's also one of the TTRPGs that I feel comforable creating NPC/Extras on...

If you're dealing with maps in a book, my most important advice is to get the equivalent PDF. For a PDF, there's a free utilty for Windows (don't know if it's available for Mac or Linux) called PDF Creator, which despite it's name also allows you to print out pages of a PDF as a JPG or PNG...

I prefer -or should probably say become interested when- a round of Ennies has some Best Game and Best Rules nominees that solidly support homebrewing. But I'm not getting a sense that's much of a focus of any of this years nominees. Well...maybe with the exception of the Momento Memori...

I only occasionally listen to LPs, so no I'm not a person that would buy a CRB or Players Handbook just to follow along. But in a round about way, that's sort of what I did with The Dark Eye CRB. Although I bought the book in advance, I started to watch some live plays due to it being near...

I likely won't run it, but I've been a fan of Kobold Press since they released their Northlands setting for PF1e. I bought a lot of their PF1e and 5e content for the Midgard World setting and ran 3 campaigns set there. I've wanted the ToV Players Guide, because having turned a number of players...

Well considering all 3, I wouldn't necessarily agree that Leverage or Firefly aren't distinct enough to justify their own TTRPG books. The problem with Tomb Raider IMO, is it falls squarely in the Foreign Adventure and Lost World pulp subgenres, and doesn't do much to raise itself out of them...

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It might just be me, but I don't really see the need for a specific TTRPG that's tied to the Tomb Raider verse. That's partly because when I 1st returned to TTRPGs after a decade+ away, some of the 1st systems I explored were Savage Worlds+Thrilling Tales and True20. A few years earlier I'd...

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...