Recent content by kronovan

Well actually - neither Tolkien's Dark Elves (Moriquendi), nor the original Svartalfr of European-Norse mythology were inherrently evil. Tolkien's Moriquendi were just those elves that hadn't answered the summons to Valinor to behold the light of the Two Trees. From my readings of Tolkien's...

Cepheus Engine would have to be in my top 3, since it allows a GM to run Traveler, as well as a huge list of other settings. But TBH I don't think I could narrow it down to just 3 anyways. If I had a choice of 5 they'd be: Savage Worlds Cepheus Engine D&D TSR Era (OSRIC, OSE, etc) BRP Fate...

I've only known one time in over 40 years of playing & GMing, where GMs were in abundance and fully appreciated. That was my college D&D club in the 80s. Considering that some books like DMG, MM and adventure modules were payed for by the club, it was the closest thing back then to organized and...

They should probably just label it as "the Unnamed Kingdom" or "Kingdom without Name". 😏

OK cool - makes sense I wouldn't know that, as I missed much of the 2e era raising a young family. I still think the idea of...a long plateau, isolated by water, sheer cliffs, rocky hills and a vast swamp, for which other people only know it by the name of the feared brothehood who's rumored to...

What I dislike about the DMG's Greyhawk chapter is it's anti Baklunish, or to put it more gently - Baklunish ignorant. In particular, the included WoG map ignores settlements that were added by the Living Greyawk Gazetteer's map and Anna Beyer's map. The DMG's map takes that region back to the...

Very cool. I'd never viewed this before - glad you relinked it. It reminds me of my early days of AD&D at my college club, where a couple of DMs from Fine Arts would illustrate landscapes on posters and pan them while they narrated location details. One session they had an awesome Paladin on a...

IMO that's not a legit criticism, as Modiphius has made the effort to publish a freely available 2d20 System Reference Document PDF. That at least provides GMs with the tools to homebrew, or convert other content for any of the 3rd party IPs they've adapted to 2d20. Were that not to...

Personally, I've never had problems adapting zone systems to more granular maps with specific distances - whether those be in feet, yards or meters. For 13th Age, I gave specific min-max distances to its Nearby and Far Away zones. And for my players that were coming off of D&D 4e, I created an...

For any Fantasy themed TTRPG, if I don't like the skills system I propose to the players that we use 13th Age backgrounds instead. Mostly because I've found 13A backgronds to work very well, albeit I always give players 11 points to spend on them. All of this is easily handled by 13A...

I can identify as both GM and player, with many of the reasons suggested. I'm just going to add that VTT hosted, or assisted campaigns I've participated in as player and GM, have generally had better success rates for completion. In particular, those for which we've had a VTT on a big screen...

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I own both Fantasy Grounds and Foundry VTT - enjoy the challenge of learning to navigate and create for a VTT. I like both for different reasons, but the main driver for me is the availability, stability and how feature-rich a TTRPG adaptation is. An official WH40k Imperium Maledictum and The...

In terms of Humble Bundles or Bundles of Holding, there isn't much con for a publisher when I'm the customer. I typically only buy the few print books for a TTRPG that are required for the players. I like to homebrew my adventures, so after those initial purchases I don't typically buy much. On...

Star Trek Adventures also features special roles for starships which are called Bridge Stations.