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The Guide to Glorantha Vol 1 & 2 are system-less books about that world. I often get setting bibles for good IPs where I would want to run games in those worlds and either they don’t have an official RPG adaption or I where I think one of my go-to systems is already a good fit. I have setting...

I’ve just started playing Songs of Conquest which is a love-letter to Heroes of Might & Magic 3

I have older friends who are members of the University of the Third Age and they already have an organised board game club at their local ‘chapter’. So I am sure you are right!

I don’t drive very fast these days. If you think US laws on speed are harsh, UK laws are much, much more punishing. Which is a good thing in aggregate but means you always need to think before have some fun at speed. I find the enjoyment is pinning together a set of curves in a road, which can...

More an interests than a hobby, I suppose, but I love the theatre. We try to go and see a couple of new plays or musicals each year. Live music too, nothing beats live performance. My other interest / vice is fast cars. Every car I have ever bought has been a performance car of some stripe or...

On a somewhat serious note, social stimulation and mental stimulation are two of the best things for helping stave off Alzheimers (I have a family member recently diagnosed, so this has been something we have had to learn about quickly).

I’m just a user like most everyone else on this site, however it is probably my most-visited site on the internet and definitely my major source of role-playing news, which I personally find very valuable. In a world where good online spaces (of any kind) are becoming rarer, if you value...

More from Hasbro. While their games division is exposed to around $10m, their toy division is exposed up to $300m. [CNBC article]

It’s a handy app. I never considered that the option for a custom background meant you could use it for drop tables.

This app lets you add custom backdrops if you upgrade to the Pro level (less than $5 by the look of it). Dice 3D You could create a backdrop with the tables and then roll dice against it. It is a physics engine so it will model where the dice go and any collisions between them.

If you want detailed rules for guns then there are a couple of short GURPS supplements that focus on that (Tactical Shooting, and Extreme Conditions). I find the trick with ultra-detailed combat is that is needs to be the exception rather than the rule. When I tried running Dungeon Fantasy for...

For sure. The missed opportunity in my mind is that WFRP 3e did something different and interesting mechanically but it was rejected by the audience and so no one seems to have had the courage to try it again. Complexity in games is cool where it is managed well and used for interesting things...

Looks like a community effort. Runequest / Mythras would probably be a natural choice for an Elder Scrolls TTRPG since before Skyrim percentages were quite prevalent IIRC.

WFRP 3e had this as a core mechanic. All abilities had cool down on them, and in the core experience* every ability was on a card. When you used an ability you put a number of tokens on it then at the start of every round you took a token off each of your cards, and could use them again one...

Just watched a live stream after the launch - the graphics were amazing on PS5 Pro I’m sorely tempted by this. Played ES 2, 3, 4 and 5 back in the day…

I would say we tend to play short campaigns in my regular group. We rotate GMs (and frequently will change system when we change GM) and a stint is often about 12-18 months, playing one Sunday per month for 10hrs a session. A canned campaign usually fits in that kind of window. I also really...

The more I think about this, the more I think a system like Nights Black Agents might be a great candidate for re-fluffing as inquisition agents. Skilled individuals, investigating conspiracy, and ultimately finding and facing-off against foes of weird power and great danger. Definitely sounds...

And clearly the reason for those discrepancies will be subversion by chaos or xenos which will need immediate resolution with prejudice to avoided further corruption or infestation. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it? 🙂

We played a very successful inquisition based campaign years back - before any of the official 40k RPGs came out. In that campaign we were agents of the inquisition, rather than full-on inquisitors. That was great fun, and put us in a position where we were more like spies and investigators...

The things you describe kind of combine ‘keeping score’ and ‘player empowerment’ so you just need to think how such things would apply in this context. My immediate thought is rank since the Inquisition is a militaristic / religious organisation. Rank provides privilege, access to resources, it...