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Free League opted to promote their new fantasy game, Dragonbane, which is a BRP based game that uses a d20. It's modernized by adds Death Saves (but based on your Con score) and Advantage/Disadvantage from 5e. You can also push for a re-roll if you Disadvantage a whole category of skills. Sort...

Yes. Please drag in more young people into science! I know we have a wider range of ages in the game now, but I'm thinking of my own high school days when the Satanic Panic was a thing. Luckily, it was NOT a thing in my family and I only bumped into it during my part time jobs during college...

A recent move by Free League now makes even more sense. They recently released a fantasy game, Dragonbane, which is a BRP variant that uses a d20 instead of d100 and came in two languages right out of the gate, Swedish and English. Free League has already allowed local publishers to crowdfund...

My recent anecdotal experience with this mindset has been with online interactions for Free League's new Dragonbane game, which some described as a "5e roll under" system, unaware of its Swedish BRP roots. Before that, it was difficult to get on con panels about community content if you were...

Love the art and layout already!

Recent ttrpg technology has discovered you can have both with a random table that starts with the phrase "Either pick a result that appeals to you or just roll."

It too be a great tool for that, but for decades I ignored them because even back in the TSR days, most of them indicators for the local ecology at best. Just tables of threat flavored encounters modified by random morale. Nothing surprising or inspiring for me, personally there. The ones I...

From what I understand for some GM with the OSR mindset is that random tables give them the sense "being a player" as they live to be surprised by the results the roll up and quickly interpret them into the gaming fiction. As with everything in life being a spectrum, the boundary of "Too many...

Which has double irony because unless you were very well connected to the right investors, a standard investor has no hope of getting their beak wet on the Facebook IPO. It was the elite of the elite Wall Street thing at the time. Not sure about the Google IPO.

It seems to be the "family curse" in our industry, a gamer is suddenly swimming in money thanks to a lighting in bottle situation and it never ends well. They also discover they are not even remotely leadership material in the worst way possible for everyone around them. No matter how smart a...

Sorry to digress but looking at this list of games made me feel old. To eliminate guesswork, we have included specific conversion rules for integrating The Primal Order with the following popular game systems: The Arduin GrimoireTM Ars MagicaTM Castle FalkensteinTM Chivalry & SorceryTM...

Knowing most of my local groups, I'll have to wait until the party gets to Eberron before I can play a Warforged. :ROFLMAO: (Like most forever DMs, I run Eberron not only because I like it, but also because I never get to play in it.)

Speaking of expensive accessories, I could totally get this book to go with my Tricorder Collectors Set. (It's the whole game, accessories, and a mini-campaign in a cosplay worthy tricorder box. How cool is that!!)

My assumption is they overcharge for dice as they feel they have razor thin margins on other products. As time rolls on, I feel like companies make more on gaming accessories compared to the games themselves.

On the plus side, their articles on Appendix N writers and their works are cool freebies. But yeah, their main aesthetic gives the vibe of a vary talented high schooler in the 1980s who is crafting the ultimate campaign he and his buddies will be talking about up to their 40s when they decide...

In fact, the Lankhmar Campaign box advises not to run a funnel and walks you through a non-funnel character creation process. I enjoy funnels as great little ice breaker one-shots. I have to Goodman props, they know -or have built- an audience they know how to cater to. For me DCC is like one...

My claim to fame is that I ran a DCC Funnel for a geeky bachelor party and it was a hit. For DCC in general, I use the app to avoid looking up the various spell charts/crit/fumble charts.

Frustratingly, many game stores owners suffer from the same symptoms as many game publishers; many get get started more with a plan based on passion vs a business plan. So this could help quite a few stores.

That's a key to this game, even when PC have high skills, there is little HP bloat. So while enemies go down faster, they still pack a punch.

There are whole write ups about this and an errata on a thousand strong unofficial Discord.* https://discord.gg/dragonbane-drakar-och-demoner-community-1173874944430579733 I can't help as much as I converted Free League's other fantasy game campaign - Forbidden Lands: Raven's Purge to...