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The Purple Sorcerer is great! We are using it for compendium stuff (spells, criticals, etc.) and running the game on Roll20 with their character sheets. Easy-peasey.

Especially since their stock is tanking, and Haboro is beholden to their shareholders. With that said, the US is an outlier with regard to a paucity of unemployment benefits, health insurance, and housing assistance. So when workers do lose their positions in market-driven (or greed-driven)...

Ho ho ho. I am not buying WotC's stuff anymore. Ever since the OGL thing. That place is being run by Voldemort.

My group and I just played DCC, which I love--it has a bit of crunch, but not too much--and it is hysterical. My friend rolled a crit when he, out of frustration, rolled a "kick him in the nads" attack. Talk about crunch!

Gotcha. I've never played Warhammer, but I read a bunch of the Gotrek and Felix books and loved them! What is the core mechanic in the game?

I am a Roll20 person, so the DCC character sheet is great. Also...we use this: The Purple Sorcerer It's not connected to the VTT, but is has all of the compendium AND you can share your rolls with your players.

Pros: a lot of material out there. A very robust community with tons and tons of resources. Easy to play online (like on a VTT). Solid action economy. It's easy to learn, and to play. Cons: the character builds are crazy. There are an insane number of classes and subclasses with endless access...

H Have you ever played a BRP-based game before? It's very different than a leveled fantasy game! Check out the old Magic World game from Chaosium, and Runequest, too! Enjoy. I've been playing BRP since the 1st edition of Call of Cthulhu.

I can't get past how buffed the characters are in 5e. I like the action economy very much, and I think skill checks are good, but overall, the game as written produces superheroes by level 5, and that's just not my jam. The last campaign I ran, we used some rules variants (gritty realism, low...

We started on 1e (the Holmes blue book) in 1981, moved on to 2e, and used materials from B/X in our games. After a ten year hiatus, we started with 3e, skipped 4e all together, and now have been playing 5e (which I don't love). We've recently jumped to Dungeon Crawl Classics, which we love, but...

Thank you! I figured it was something along those lines. I am using Dungeon Crawl Classics these days (along with Dragonbane) so I'm always trying to figure out what I can use and how difficult it will be to convert.

Friends, is OSR a catch all for games of a certain type (Old School Renaissance) vs. OSE which is a specific game system (Old School Essentials)? I have seen them used interchangeably, which is confusing. Frog God Games has game materials that are labelled "OSR," but I am not sure what--if...

Yeah...that is really weird.

I meant monsters in a metaphorical sense. 😐

I'm running my first game Tuesday, but I am going to nerf the monsters a bit. Characters have HP that don't change (there is no leveling) so if that goblin hits you twice, you are in trouble. That's not a complaint: I've been playing BPR games for 40+ years, but this system makes combat very deadly.

The first time I ran 5e, I did it with a 2e mindset, and my players were like freaking superheroes by level 4. I could not get over how powerful they were. It was partly my fault because I gave them each a really cool, character specific weapon without understanding how many powers that had as a...

Tolkien and Howard are apples and oranges. They are wildly different writers who wrote for different markets, in different countries, and in different (sub)genres of fantasy. I've read Tolkien and Howard multiple times. I love them both!

We are currently playing Dungeon Crawl Classics as well, and Dragonbane. Both systems are less super-powered.

My group is currently playing The Lord of the Rings 5e game from Free League and enjoying it. As you pointed out, Tolkien's world is low magic, and the other constraints placed on characters--fewer bonus actions per level, restrictions in class and heritage, fewer magic items--has actually made...

Anyone tried this one yet? Beautiful artwork, and a clean (albeit limited) rule set and bestiary. It's based on Chaosium's BRP system, which I have always loved, and has a lot of Magic World DNA, as well as a little Rune Quest thrown in. Free League makes nice games.