Recent content by kronovan

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...

Yes, I remember that as well. In 2007 my kids and I were collecting Star Wars miniatures and there were few LGSs that could bring them in, while prices were very high for those that could. I remember ordering cases of them from a Florida retailer and I payed no more than $16 CDN a case for...

Yep, I've been able to buy STA books from Modiphius UK and I'm going to buy the upcoming Dark Conspiracy from Mongoose UK. Both will ship directly at reasonable rates. I tried to order a WH40k book from Cubicle 7, but the shipping cost would have been as much as the book. I'm guessing that...

And the sad thing about it... going forward it's likely only going to get worse. It remains to be seen how the the Can-USA free trade renegotiations pan out this year, but I already want to stop having to order UK books from USA distributors. I fondly remember my brother and I mail ordering...

Sorry to say it doesn't matter one way or another to me, because their shipping costs to Canada are too high. I haven't ordered anything in print from drivethru in over a decade. It's a shame because many of Drivethru's PDFs supported for POD aren't in the distribution channels here. While...

2 of my votes made the top 10, so I'm pleased with that. Had I not assumed the new Black Company was d20-based like the earlier effort, but was instead d100, it would have been my 3rd vote. As to the # 1 most antcipated Deathbringer...I already own 10, d20-based & OSR TTRPGs, so I need a new one...

It's compatible for the most part. I've recently been converting some AD&D1e bestiaries to OSE, so I'll highight a few differences. Base movement rate (distance per combat round); it's very different between OSRIC/AD&D1e and OSE. In OSRIC base movement is stated in inches as 12", which OSRIC...

IME it works well, but there's a few tricks and considerations to making it work best. As well, the ease of doing it varies depending upon whether you're running entirely TOTM or using maps. Regardless, I always run 2 instances of the VTT. One is my GM instance on my laptop and the other is a...

If I'm the GM/DM, I have a VTT on a big sceen at/beside the table for players that have to be home, but still able to play remotely. For 2 of the tables I GM, half the players have young families, so the VTT has been a terrific aid for accomodating them. Most of those player's spouses play too...

While I'm not a fan of the previous WotC 5e publications Haeck co-authored, I own everything he did for Kobold Press and am impressed with all of it. I included a number of his Eldritch Lairs adventures in a campaign I ran years ago, and those players still talk about his Carrion Shrine of...

As I said in the thread that overgeeked linked, SWADE is my primary go to. I've acquired a number of 3rd party pulp companions (Thrilling Tales, Daring Tales of Adventures/Space, The Great Book of Random Tables), for SWADE, which have proven to be quality stuff. I've also run a few pulp...

You already listed 2 of my top 5 (Midgard, Greyhawk), but I'd also recommend the Glorantha Sourcebook. It's the setting for the Runequest TTRPG, but the sourcebook is close to system agnostic. You can of course explore it with the rules tailored to it (Runequest - Roleplaying in Glorantha), but...

Oh nice. I was told that's a picturesque city with an nice, open mall in the old section. In my 2 decades of software consulting I never did get out that way, but I think I was close when I worked in Richmond VA?