Recent content by Von Ether

It is like FL wants to say, "The spell Protector's duration is a Shift for locations but only a stretch for people."

After B/X, TMNT and Gamma World were my next steps into a wider world of gaming.

Exactly! It also seems the alternatives to metal for casters are: Dragonglass is hard to craft with (bane) and has half the DUR Demonic material requires the HA Demonic Smithing, which is not described or included. Demonic material sounds like demonic bargaining with extra steps in the smithy.

For the Book of Magic, I am sorely thinking of using it more as a tool for establishing setting and such. Such as in some campaigns, certain schools might be NPC only. Or some schools may be even split up even more to give a type of magic a very strong theme, like mental psionics or Pyromancy.

I don't have my copy yet but evidently the incomplete English Alpha document for the Book of Magic dropped in DTRRPG. According to those who have read the full Swedish beta version: Some alternatives to iron or steel swords Alchemy feels different - and now offers the game poison antidotes...

Congrats to Roberts!! I’m guessing we’ll see where this new team is going in 2027?

I'm eager to start messing around with DB again soon. It's my go-to fantasy game for now, quick to start up and hits a sweet spot where you can look to a lot of other fantasy OSR content for inspiration and BRP/RQ as well, especially with BRP Universal coming out with bestiary.

The Magic players as well, so it might be linked to decompressing after a competitive scene or comparing the meta after tournament?

I'm in that pickle right now. My previously open table at a game store, which now has become very busy on the Sundays hours we want to play. It became a private game due to a player becoming GM and he didn't want to raise his voice so he hosted at his home with lots of snacks. 😍 Do to both...

Since WotC needs non-adventure books to attract both players and GMs, then each book needs some mandatory subclasses. At we maybe getting to a point where the themed connection between those classes and the rest of the book is getting thin unless the theme of the book is either planar or...

Congrats to Matt and his team!

The heartbreaking aspect of the gig is the lack of cross-over marketing for the artist. One could assume that if writer X wrote an awesome book in your favorite IP, that they must have other great books in a similar vein. It's likely that's how they got the job. Sadly, a lot of IP fans have...

In this day and age, award winning writer's can't turn down any project they feel they are a fit for. On a related note Kij Johnson, also a multiple award winner for fiction, just had the ttrpg she submitted to Kobold Press hit the shelves. (Riverbank) Kij got her start in media tie-in at TSR...

I'll counter my sad story with a more promising one. We've all heard of sci-fi and fantasy writers that also did ttrpgs here and there but I remember when the award winning China Miéville danced around the subject of "did he or didn't he" when he had a straight up adventuring party strut into...

100% Local gaming metas are all over the place. "Dead" games are alive and well at one FLGS and one state/province/district over another store the line up of popular games is different. Perfect example I've seen is that Battletech is having a renaissance in popularity and it's popping up at...