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Brennan Lee Mulligan has some interesting takes on Hobbits in the Dimension 20 Fantasy High series. That would be a fun spin off, too.

Isn't your recent kick telling people to read the book? Must be embarrassing that your complaint is just spelled out in black and white in the book, then.

The Patchwork Zombie has an AoE. I used that monster in my playtest. It was effective once or twice. Didn’t get to use it a third time because he died. The AoEs will help. But the HP and stress is where they’re hurting the most. Phases or doubling HP and stress are the easy fixes.

You could just as easily double the HP and stress then increase their relentless feature by 1-2.

Some conversations of late. Substitute in empathy and you're set.

Sylvester McCoy is definitely in my top five. His era gets a lot of flack, some of it justified most of it not, but I absolutely love his wildly over-the-top children's show host style. I'm eternally disappointed that they dropped the malapropisms, though I'm grateful they kept the goofy...

Basically, yes. One GM move is one free action for a monster. Solos get to make multiple actions if the GM spends fear. To match the PC's action economy, the PCs would need to roll with fear or fail exactly 50% of the time. So if you're going into a so-called solo fight with capped fear, it'll...

Honestly it all makes me want a 4E style breakdown of the monster math that much more or a Blog of Holding business card post for Daggerheart. It would be so much easier to just have the "this one monster = one PC" set up and have the other monsters be variations on that.

It's a bit weird. For the fight to be a challenge to a group, you need to use most of if not the whole budget. Even then, the game favors the PCs. You will really feel it if you're shaving more than 1-2 points off the total. I have found that using the +2 damage bonus for 2 battle points thing...

The great thing about Doctor Who is it’s done just about everything over the decades. Just about anyone can find something to like. And just about any era has fans. But that glum crankiness just isn’t for me. The only versions I like less are William Hartnell and Colin Baker’s version on TV. I...

Honestly? Keep your mouth shut and be thankful someone’s willing to run games for you.

To each their own. I absolutely love that about Alien. Maybe look at Mothership. It does basically the same stories but with a wider scope and handles that particular aspect of play “better” from your perspective.

Yep. The summer crossover problem combined with the summer blockbuster problem. Throw in a dash of the superhero escalation problem…and here we are. I liked the first two Ant-Man movies because they were smaller scale (ha) and not world-ending threats. I liked the first two GotG movies because...

Only saw Ant-Man and Deadpool. I’ve always loved What If so that’s an easy one for me, though I haven’t seen it yet. Otherwise I have basically zero interest in any of these Marvel titles. I am looking forward to Fantastic Four. That’s about it.

The results of the panic roll are not “the game freezes.” The result of a wave of panic rippling through the PCs is not “the game freezes.” It ends up pushing the PCs into panicking. Which is the whole point. It’s a horror game. If you make a panic roll and get exactly a 10, then you freeze; on...

I was just hitting the gonzo live-action stuff. The list of violent kids cartoons is effectively infinite.

Shrug. Some kids like horror. Goosebumps is an evergreen brand. It’s only surprising that it took so long for someone to do it. Well, redo it. Even back in the 30s-50s there were pulps with worse violence and outright horror. To say nothing of horror comics. EC Comics. Tales from the Crypt...

Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s? H. R. Pufnstuf. Land of the Lost. Lidsville. The Great Space Coaster. The Electric Company. There’s some wild-ass stuff people used to show kids.

To some it’s a bug, to others it’s a feature. In highly stressful situations, panic spreads like that.

Yep. Every group I’ve ever played Star Wars with has done this. Every single one. It’s maddening at first. But then you start using it against them. It’ll be clear the PCs are stripping everything for parts real quick. The Empire or crime lords will notice. They will plant trackers and booby...