Recent content by kronovan

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?

That's a very attractrive store - where is it located? I thought you were Third Kingdom Games who publishes all those terrific hexcrawl products - you own or manage a store too? I own Filling in the Blanks and Random Weather Generation and use them with Old School Essentials whenever my party of...

I'm someone that owned AoR and moved on from it for Star Wars roleplaying. I never did buy the EoE book, so I can't really tell you about it. In terms of the overall TTRPG - I think if you're joining a table in which the GM has been running it for a while and the players have been consistent...

I think that's a good thing. I've never been a big fan of Savage Pathfinder, because it seemed to intro a fair amount of power creep into PC builds. I've DMd and played PF1e and played PF2e, so I can understand why Peginc felt they needed that. That said, for SW I go back to 2007 SWEX, so zero...

I see licensed products as 2 types: 1) where the IP is closely tied to a custom (often new) set of rules. 2) where the IP is adapted to an existing set of rules - usually a universal one. I rarely buy the 1st type, but on occasion do buy the 2nd. When I reflect upon the past decade or so...

This is typically the case in my Canadian city. I recently went shopping for a core rulebook, but it was sold out. The book was at the Publishers webstore, but the shipping would have been the cost of the book - after exchange, book was already more than it had beenb at better priced LGS or...

This is a deal-breaker for me when buying any core rulebook in print. I need the PDF to make homebrewing easy and to read it on my tablet. The print edition is mostly for players at my table and the summer months when I want to read outside and it's too bright for tablet reading. The PDF is...

I mostly paint my large Battletech collection these days. I won't add much to the terrific advice already given. I'm just going to say that in tems of primers, I've always had excellent results with Citadel (Games Workshop) primer and I won't use Army Painter primer. I didn't get tackiness as...