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For those who want to know the difference between the versions of Cypher, here we go. The first version was more player focused in the...

It's happing in adjacent wargaming hobby as well. CGL's Leviathan's Kickstarter had great 3D renders of their flying battleships but...

The industry in general should start using a disclaimer of some sort. "Digital render, actual product may differ."

I understand, it makes me wonder why I get that. When it come to 3pp 5e setting books they are always stand alone books with the core...

4d6 drop the lowest, so it's a higher than average bell curve. You assign as you go but you can then swap around two scores at the end...

I find you can also turn the dial on the heroic level of the game when players get up to a 17 in an attribute due to the basic/trained...

My fellow is even a bit different in that regard, instead of being solely perfect in combat or skills, he wants to be the second best...

My most dedicated mix/maxer player maxed out his HP and WP with his highest stats after getting no attribute higher than 15. He quickly...

I hear you. When ever someone on social media being a try-hard with "realism" in their OSR/D&D adjacent game, I stop myself from writing...

For me the allure of Dark Sun was just by how different it was from all the vanilla fantasy settings I was seeing everywhere. For me...

I am not even a fan of the term "hallucinate" as it implies the algorithm was tricked or "sick," in a way that makse it a victim. The...

Glad the two companies have talked. What had me worried was Traveller for a space based RPG and Traveler for a spaced base RPG are...

That does seem to be a big aspect to sci-fi ttrpg, if you don't have a tie to an IP, it's a much harder sell.

The article makes valid points, but seems to assume FTL makes it possible to just warp/drop out of anywhere. Jump gates and how fast...