Recent content by mrm1138

The world is called Corona, which is fine, but it takes place in the kingdom of Honce-the-bear. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I think it's named after one of the previous kings. All I know is that it's twee as hell.

So much this. I'm currently reading his DemonWars series, and some of the names in that are so bad. I think the worst offense is that there are characters named Chilichunk. The setting name, Honce-the-bear, is also pretty dumb.

I prefer TOTM, but it gets difficult with certain games. When I first started running D&D 5e, I quickly realized that it was going to be much easier to run combat on a grid. I tried to keep it a bit abstracted by using colored pawns for PCs and numbered tokens for monsters. Eventually, though...

I'm curious if anyone knows of a game besides World/Chronicles of Darkness where you play as traditional monsters (i.e., not goblins, kobolds, trolls, etc.) in present day. I'm thinking something like the setting for the original Chill (and its descendant Cryptworld) only you play the opposite side.

This would be my pick, too. Character creation takes maybe five to ten minutes (if that), and teaching the rules takes even less time. I also like the fact that they have so many different genres for the system. Sometimes I find myself in the mood for different types of stories. Right now, I'd...

I did not. Adding it to my queue right now. Thanks for the heads-up!

I've been on a bit of a wuxia kick (no pun intended) lately, so the last thing I purchased was a hardcover copy of Art of Wuxia. I ran a one-shot for my friends a couple weeks ago, and they liked it enough that I'm now going to be running a campaign. And then I backed the Kickstarter for...

The only thing I wonder about is how statistically likely it is to roll three of a kind (or even doubles) on a consistent basis. How large do PCs' dice pools usually get?

Very disappointing news. I've long been a fan of DCC and its amazing adventure modules, but if they're willing to openly work with people like Bledsaw there's no way I'm giving them so much as another penny.

I'm curious what this means for The History of Sentinel Comics. I've been really looking forward to it since it was announced, and I have no clue what kind of progress they'd made on it.

I've never quite understood why they're called funnels. A funnel doesn't reduce the volume of anything. Shouldn't they be called sieves instead?

All I can assume is that Riggs just meant that it wasn't an officially licensed D&D product that used any of WOTC's settings or characters.

I have the Universal Monsters version, but I sadly haven't had a chance to play it yet. The gameplay sounds kind of similar to Touch of Evil (using the cooperative rules). Can anyone confirm or refute?

It's definitely full of high quality components, maps, and handouts, but I think more playtesting could have gone into it before release. For one thing, they may have realized that they forgot to include a pretty important rule in the starter set, that PCs can only make one attack per weapon...

Yeah, I'm actually rather disappointed by that. Genesys is my favorite system, and I think it could work very well for horror. As it stands, I think the system for Arkham Horror RPG is fine, but it doesn't excite me to play the same way Genesys does.