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Apologies for the slow reply, ran into some health issues recently. We're using 6th, in the form of Champions Complete . After some deliberation I decided that going with the current edition had some advantages for the group, since most of them don't have any of the books but have expressed an...

Following last week's character generation, this evening was the first proper session of Champions for my group. Went pretty well, with a few things I inevitably need to check for next week, but even with everyone getting to grips with the system it was fairly smooth and loads of fun. All praise...

There was a YouTube livestream last night (which I only found out about today) going over the state of play at LotFP and how the sale of new books is going. In short it looks as though James Raggi is cautiously optimistic and somewhat overwhelmed. Fan response was extremely strong and they...

Old School Essentials publisher Necrotic Gnome is based in Berlin, not in the UK. Still affected by the shutdowns however (an order I placed with them apparently left the warehouse just hours before they halted all shipping).

No, I think of a one shot as an adventure intended to be finished in a single session. The trouble with my group is an astonishing ability to go off-piste.

Our record currently stands at 18 months to complete a "one shot" adventure. We're terrible at them. If I need to run a one shot these days then I generally find an available convention scenario that's been run several times, which at least gives a good idea that it can be run in a single session…

Flying Buffalo's Citybook series is superb. Varied NPCs and establishments written by the likes of S. John Ross and Dave Arneson. Full of plot suggestions and ways to link different entries together. There are seven in the range (and more non-Citybook titles in the Catalyst series), broadly themed.

Better for some games than others. Playing Call of Cthulhu, for example, is easy because you're basically talking and rolling your own dice. Area sketch maps tend to either be held up to the camera or shared on something like Google Drive (which is how we share handouts). Something like Savage...

Canada and the US only, alas.

It hasn't affected my regular weekly game as that's played through Google Hangouts, although obviously there could be knock on effects from some of the players having to keep their kids at home all day or rearrange things for their jobs. The main impact so far was missing the Airecon...

Everyone uses ordinary dice for our Hangouts games, although there's nothing stopping someone from using a dice roller if they prefer. We trust each other to report the results honestly, because what's the point of gaming with someone you don't trust? It's an RPG, you can't win so it's not as if...

I have a great deal of difficulty following conversations when there is music playing, so for me it's not only an unnecessary addition it's an actively unhelpful one.

Western HERO was released recently as a PDF. It's a genre book for the 4th edition HERO System, but quite easy to use with later versions so something like the Basic Rulebook for 6th edition is all you really need to add. For espionage etc try Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes from Flying...

Haven't finished reading it, but there's a lot of solid material included. Quite a bit would be applicable to non-AGE systems too.

Hero System Mobile ( https://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/96734-hero-system-mobile/ ) generates random characters, makes skill checks and can import Hero Designer output for Champions and other Hero System RPGs.

Exactly what I thought. The curse of a forgettably generic product name.

"Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice!" (https://tekeli.li/podcast/) in which Roger Bell_West and Michael Cule discuss games, listener questions and why you can't just do everything in GURPS the way Roger would like. Consistently released on the first of each month, it's a very thoughtful and...

Great though it is to see "Bureau 13" and "Stalking the Night Fantastic" on the poll, you should probably know that they are the same game.