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I love and share your enthusiasm, @Horacio. And with the ORC licensing, I can go ahead and commit to using it without worrying that stuff I want will have to drop out of sight the way Nameless Streets and Book of Glorious Joy had to. @Wolfpack48 , agreed on all of those. QuestWorlds is fun to...

Why change now? We’re warmed up, we’re rehearsed, we’re ready to do it again like a Broadway hit!

So…this is interesting. It begins very innocuously. It doesn’t stay there. Share your favorite snippets. https://www.thebooksinorder.com/horus-heresy-book-in-order/

Geo Armor Kishin Corps for how to be a subtle and restrained GM, even though it’s not fantasy.

This is a partial answer to @pemerton.

Yes. But I will answer more fully when I get to thst part of the book.

Neat! Glad to know about this.

In QW, the answer to both probably defaults to the GM, but a lot depends on how the player and GM choose to set the stakes. If the player’s goal is something like “a complete traversal of this cave reveals confirmation of my theory that the Lemurians are the worst litterbugs ever”, and the...

They say converting to the prior system will mostly be a matter of adding a 0. Same set of stats. And so on. I have a much higher bar for complete difference.

And from the sound of it, it’s hardly a brand new system.

It is in the book, though, and the SRD, and lists of publishers and games that use ORC, and so on. I suspect Chaosium figures thst it’s not interesting enough to gamers at large to mention in ad copy, and that people actually interested in ORC will be looking at resources like those;

Um. Fair warning: I’m likely to enthuse a lot as I go. Feel free to ask, publicly or privately, to tone it down if it’s too much. I am by lifelong temperament an enthusiast for the shinies of the moment, and have deliberately cultivated a tendency to go on more about what I like than what I...

This passage hits on something that’s become really important to my gaming: Not every struggle or progression is best approached as a conflict. There can be resistance without anything that’s really antagonism. Lots of challenges are conflicts, of course, and some things that aren’t innately...

Interesting! I’m cautious but curious.

Soulbound is on my list of games I dreamed of/wished for as a teen. I’d present a select version of the backstory: a universe before this one blew up, some forces survived, loose alliances of Order, Death, and Destruction all face off against Chaos, show them pictures and zoom in on the ones...

I’m in the process of reading it now and feeling like this was money well spent. I am pondering how best to handle it for solo play. The fact that the game calls for a lot fewer rolls per unit of play time than many games makes this much less urgent than for many games, fortunately.

I find Etienne fascinating because of his moral position as . That’s genuinely…if not unique, very close to it. Heavy is much more typical. And not all of the six are willin’ for killin’ at all. They are also interesting to me. (Also, their world provides them all reasons to fear losing control...

I loved Power Fantasy and look forward to more.

Some years ago, Ben Monroe and I started work on a horror genre book for HeroQuest 2e. Life got in the way for both of us, and then Chaosium decided on a different direction for the game. I won’t be able to do professional-level work any time soon, but I may have some tidbits worth sharing at...

I pledged for the current Kult Kickstarter. Their books give me inspiration that’s actually useful in play.