Recent content by kronovan

Ha ha. That's cool someone here has a forum name of GMMichael. Our GM Michael moved away decades ago, but is still remembered fondly by those players that played at his tables in the early days.

I prefer Archetypes that are defined by cultures or regions. As an example, I'm currently queuing up a SWADE campaign from a prewritten setting, and the archetypes for it are built upon cultures, regions and even factions. The archetypes for sure entail an occupation, but for a number the...

Back in the day -like way back in the 1980s- I played at a table where the GM homebrewed a campaign that used AD&D1e, Traveller and Gamma World. IIRC there was some mechanism for dimensional time shifting and distance Universe travel. So the early history era used AD&D and distant future used...

For me it depends upon the circumstances and to some extent the audience of players. So I voted for "other." For some settings and rulesets, unless the PCs are very green, such identification doesn't present much of a challenge. So I'd roll with the 2nd choice. In other settings however, the...

The regular full price bundle for CC3+ just includes Dungeon Designer, Campaign Cartographer and City Designer. I'd recommend focusing on those at first, if you're looking to make Fantasy themed maps. DD will let you design encounter level maps (& not just those in dungeons), while CC will allow...

Forgive me if it's already been said, but I don't think there's anything perplexing or confusing about Goodman Games' choice or position on this. They see the potential in a product that's based upon best selling TTRPG and their own TTRPG, which is a good seller too. To me it seems to be purely...

If you're not sure of what system, I'd recommend Kobold Presses' Zobeck: Clockwork City Collection. It's the central city for the Midgard World setting, but its jurisdiction extends beyond the walls of the city. The collectors edition combines the previous Streets of Zobeck, The Zobeck...

I'll ditto the recommendation for Blue Planet, albeit I've only ever done a quick read/browse of it and that was years ago. IIRC it's d100 based and I seem to recall it being a more than decent implementation of such rules. The creator of it (Jeffrey Barber) taught oceanography and that's...

Something happened to me last Friday re this TTRPG. Before this thread I'd never heard of it. Then last Friday I was at a long-time gaming buddys and noticed a book on his many bookshelves with the same title - good thing he believes in "alphabitize or die." :p So...I picked it up and started...

The Chaosium starter boxes I've bought in the past year (Call of Cthulhu & Pendragon) are very close to what I consider ideal. Digital cartography has been a hobby of mine for decades though, and I prefer to make my own maps. So unless it'd be a global or continental scale map for a new setting...

Oh OK. We have different uderstandings of what VTT is. To me it's just the software app that hosts the game session. With all the VTTs I've used (MapTool, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, Foundry), the only player-related images displayed are their portraits and their tokens. None of those VTT even...

That makes zero sense to me - could you elaborate?

Yep, that's the way most of the VTT campaigns I play in are run and about half of those I host. There are players that just aren't comfortable with videoconferencing, whether that be not wanting to spend the money on and learn a webcam, or not wanting to share their face. And possibly sharing...

For my In-Person sessions around an IRL table, It's not uncommon for me to have one of the 2 VTTs I own runnning on my laptop and a remote player's profile & token images up on a connected big screen. I'll put their character sheet on the screen too, if they're cool with that. If they want, I'll...

The Pendragon 6e Gamemaster's Handbook finally arrived in my region, so I ordered it immediately. The same online store had Call of Cthulhu Dark Ages 3rd Ed, and since I've been hombrewing a CoC campaign set in Dark Ages France for a while, I bought it too. DA 3rd Ed is mostly England focused...