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For me, one of the notable changes is the way that success and failure are figured. The clumsy look-up charts of HeroQuest are gone. Instead you just count up the number of successes on each side. So, if you roll a success and have a mastery, that's two successes. If your opponent rolls a...

One thing I'll say, as one of the folks who helped push QuestWorlds out of the door, is that in practice it's not that many rolls. The traditional TTRPG approach is that there's a story obstacle, and to get around it the players must roll lots of discrete tasks. Roll this task with this skill...

And it's now out and available! QuestWorlds: Core RuleBook - PDF

I'm really looking forward to this. It's been a long wait for the new core rulebook to appear, and I genuinely think this is the ultimate version of the game that was previously known as Hero Wars and HeroQuest. This new edition (basically, the fourth edition) has some solid clean-ups of the...

True. It's just that in RuneQuest we have a game that explicitly makes it a mechanic that seamlessly fits into its broader mythic narrative. A sweet melange of worldbuilding and gameplay.

Interestingly, in the Glorantha universe of HeroQuest and RuneQuest, disease is the result of disease spirits, and to succumb to a disease is a battle between the spirits and the PC's own magical power. In other words: disease is its own form of combat, and as brutal and deadly as anything else.

Heavy Gear. Great worldbuilding, really solid rules, and scales between characters and vehicles well.

There's probably a whole bunch of Japanese TTRPGs based on licensed IP that we haven't seen in the West. I stumble across all sorts of exotic properties whenever I'm over there and rooting around in the games sections of bookstores.

On a similar theme, has anyone run an isekai game? Where the players create their fantasy (or whatever) characters, and then in the narrative they play themselves, sucked into the fantasy world of the game, trnasformed into their characters. And they have to figure it all out?

That's the thing. I want to break the D&D addiction. So I think a lot about how to clear that hurdle.

An issue here is: who learns new RPG systems? Well, in most groups I've played with not everyone learns the game system. The GM learns it. (Though surprisingly, I have experience of one that didn't.) One or two players might invest in the rules-set and read or part-read them. The rest? They...

Strangely enough scheduling might be a generational thing, too. I find groups of oldies to be quite reliable. It's dealing with youngsters in online games that's far more like herding cats. I had the strangest experience recently of a GM who arranged online sessions and then never turned up...

I'm in a very similar place. I ditched a Marvel Multiverse RPG campaign earlier this year because the prep for a game that's heavily combat-oriented was overwhelming. I've long gravitated towards lighter storytelling systems where I can elide all those maps and tokens. For a long time FATE...

Happy holibobs, all. Especially people who hate the word 'holibobs'!

Do they strike if the old scrote tries to bilk them on wages?

A dwarven artificer who's enslaved elves to work for him!

Hark, the 'Daily Herald' sings "Beecham's Pills are just the thing", They are weak and they are mild Two for an adult, one for a child. If you want to go to heaven You must take a dose of seven, If you want to go to Hell Take the ruddy box as well! Hark, the 'Daily Herald' sings "Beecham's...