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I think I have the 1 lonely vote for the d6 system, but I had to support a game engine that’s given me so much fun from the 90s to today. (My other 2 picks were Daggerheart and 4e, the latter of which I know also won’t win. Almost went for Shadowdark, but that probably won’t need help from me 😁)

Have you checked out Free Stars: Children of Infinity? It’s helmed by the original SC creators, Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. The Kickstarter page has a lot of fun dev blogs. While I don’t think there’s any hints of the strategic planet conquering game of SC1 it is set to be a proper sequel to...

Thank you for sharing! That’s a pretty fascinating way they handled it. Oh! Does that include preordering? I thought they were only sharing previews for those who pledged.

@The-Magic-Sword I was wondering if you could share a little about Venators from the preview. I’m not sure how much they’ve teased yet, but do you know how Damnations and Torments will work for them, since ostensibly they’re still human?

This sounds really cool, if you don’t mind I’d also like that link please 😁

I don’t think they do in their modern incarnation but I seem to remember some really old art where they were drawn with toothy beaks, and more resembled the kappa (?) toy they were based on.

if you don’t mind doing some conversion, The Chronicles of Darkness books had slightly more combat systems, as I recall (like static values for Defense and various keyworded Conditions). Nothing quite what you’re looking for in terms of tactical gridded combat, though. If you have the time and...

Wow that’s very cool! Many, many years ago some friends and I threw together a very primitive MtG rpg together as a lark. It was similar to Ars Magicka in that you had one mage and 1 retainer, and to cast spells you played a very accelerated version of the card game. I’m sure their version...

Er, yes. I should have been more clear. I meant in terms of finding similar enough powers and capabilities. Using the families as presented really didn’t match up that closely to the Fae; so I expect we’d need to do some heavy re-writing there if we I really were going to move forward on that...

Thanks for all the insights @The-Magic-Sword ! That was very helpful! Venators sound like they will be an interesting take on the Hunter archetype. If my group does decide to make the switch to Curseborne with our current campaign I’ll probably wind up customizing the Hunter characters, but...

I think I’ll have to see it in play, but I’m not sure I love the damage system where it seems like you normally inflict 1 damage with possibility of boosting it to 2. It reads like combat will be a slow slugfest with combatants chipping away at health. I get that weapon tags and tricks add some...

Seems to come with the territory of quasi-gothic punk. The biggest eye roller for me is using their own acronym for NPCs. C’mon folks, not only does it take me out of the reading because I’m trying to remember what an SGC is, but I’m pretty sure the NPC-crewed ship sailed back in 80s, if not the...

I went ahead and grabbed to core book. It definitely has the WoD/CoD vibe in the writing and style, though sometimes I want the book to stop with the edgy first person narrative and just give me the meat and potatoes of the rules. Our group is going to take a look at the game and see if we want...

I’d been kind of on the fence about Curseborne, but now I’m thinking about checking it out. I probably won’t switch mid campaign from my Frankensteinian V5 game (the real monster!), but it sounds like it could be a much more elegant solution to the type of urban-goth games we like!

Thank you for the write up! I’m currently co-running a Changeling/Hunter/Mage campaign that also finds them running afoul of local vampire politics. We’re using a hack-job of the V5 engine because we like it more than the older editions, but it’s a lot of work rewriting powers and abilities to...