Recent content by Phototoxin

Massive social media and marketing presence. The sharp rise in streaming has made it accessable to normies as opposed to being a niche nerd only game. Unlike 4e it doesn't require a set of tools just to build a character and the monster balance is pretty good. CR1 monsters are still relevant...

4 out of 5 rating for Xanathar's Guide to Everything I found this book to be really useful - aside from the extra subclasses and options, there's a lot of nice extra information like uses for some of the less useful skills and things. The much maligned name chart is a waste of space which could...

3 out of 5 rating for Star Trek Adventures This badly wants to be FATE but has the mophidius system stapled onto its face. I must admit that I was slightly offput by the Mophidius affiliation. I used to play Infinity a lot, and saw their alpha/kickstarter preliminary release for that as an...

Heard of yes, actually know much about (other than how to kill Drizzt in BG2?), no

Group #1 - D&D 1.) How many players in your group? 5 PC + 1 DM 2.) Do you DM? Yes 3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? No 4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? 5M,1F 5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? No, unless forbidden planet counts? I wouldn't...

5th followed by 4th then 3rd then AD&D.

I used to but time required, effort (lots of time and $ investment for little return), community toxicity and just general lack of enjoyment have caused me to fall off the wagon

It's good to have competition, it's also good that it's not massively litigious 'ohmygerd they stole our idea to use d12 as barbarian hit points!! SUE SUE SUE!' As long as no one decides to make their system use a proprietary d23 or something we as customers should benefit.

Just to say thanks again for the sponsorship, I was fortunate enough to win 'Starfinder' which I look forward to playing/running at some point :-)

It's not just RPGs, almost every tabletop wargame in the past few years has tried to spin itself as 'streamlined'. It's a trend in marketing language as much as anything. After all no one would buy something that was described as 'clunky and fiddley'

Can we start proper rumours? Like how Morrus is not a human, but a robot powered by an undead hamster in a little wheel where his spleen should be?

My late Necromancer deliberately ventured into Ravenloft to seek more arcane knowledge. He was a book merchant but turned to study necromancy when his wife died and the temples couldn't help. So he's anti-cleric, pro-necromancy. It was pretty cool as the DM even gave him low level healing spells...

Pokemon is a major focus for me but I enjoy some RTS stuff and casual shooters on my PC too

Sounds good! I like V20 but requiem had tidier mechanics so hopefully they will keep the setting/clans of the original but as you say modernise some of the mechanics and elements. Hopefully it will inject new blood (ho ho!) into the fanbase. I'm glad they're keeping the vice/virtues it was...

Thank you very much. I've started to read the basic/core Fate book and it's making more sense. Where it said that you have 3 consequences it really means you have slots to take up to 3 consequences, not that you start with them which confused me no end ! Also I'm loving the lives of cats...