Recent content by kronovan

Isn't that supposed to be million. Personaly, I'd be very surprised - actually shocked- if a tabletop game company had annual revenue that was approaching a trillion $. Or is that also including all the revenue from the 3rd party companies that publish and develop games based upon their IPs ?

It's not the first time I've mentioned it here, but I'm a big fan of Kobold Presses' city of Zobeck. It sits at the center of their Midgard World setting and is detailed with a Streets of Zobeck adventure guide and a Zobeck Gazeteer. Both are now available together in one publication titled...

My enthusiasm for collecting and painting minis waxed with my son and daughter reaching an age where they could paint (both became good mini painters), and waned as they approached their late teens and lost interest. We mostly collected Reapers for fantasy figs. My son and I were also fans of...

I'm a homebrewer at heart too and my most prized TTRPG books are toolkits or universal in nature; i.e. SWADE, True20, BRP-UGE, M-Space and Cepheus Engine. So for sure a book that does that well is going to support many a SciFi setting. That said, I do think referring to U5 as a SciFi setting is...

I wouldn't classify Ultramodern5 as a setting; at least not the original edition I own. It's more of a toolkit that's targeted at a variety of modern to far future genres, but IMO not a particularly good one. This is what U5 states at the beginning of the Adventuring chapter. "Ultramodern5...

I so much dislike the idea of the Traveller verse being played with D&D 5e rules, that getting all my concerns/criticisms down would result in a very lenghty and not so readable post. Just need to say, my players and I spent way too much time trying to find SciFi magic in a bottle with d20 (d20...

I rarely back kickstarters, but I have the Denizens of the Blood Sands bestiary, have found it to be quality stuff and have enjoyed dropping its weird, at times humorous, creatures into a variety of adventures. So I'm IN for the Expeditions into the Blood Sands KS. I'm mostly interested in the 2...

I'm careful to only purchase print books I've researched and those I know I really want to hold in my hands. I generally only buy books the players need at the table and occasionally my players gift me them. So, any phsyical books I own have to be essential for players, or something I want to...

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...