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I remember one of my GMs using a modified version of this one for Spelljammer, with the ruined city and monument transplanted to a rock in Wildspace and the association of Thoth and Ptah (a Big Deal deity in SJ, far more so than planetside) played up some. I don't recall the traps being...

Doesn't EQ use strike ranks as well? I don't think that's in CoC 7th either.

Yes. All the supplements are part of the package. As far as I can tell only the 2nd edition single volume core book isn't part of this, which (predictably) already has some folks complaining about how that's what they really wanted. Me, I hope it does well. Not only do I retain some fondness...

I checked out on WotC D&D when they axed 4e. These days if I want a D&D-like experience it's either 13th Age (for 4e vibes) or an OSR game (for anything else) - but frankly, I don't even get that urge very often any more.

Alternately, make the holes plenty large enough to allow free passage for the bugs, and have a fantasy wasp/bee hive inside each of them, built on and around the coins. The "trap" stops being subtle - the PCs will almost certainly notice insects going in and out and buzzing around the area -...

Typical. There were two people at Tanagra. Jalad gets no respect.

That's an odd take on superhero gaming going by the players' stated desires. You're going to spend a great deal of time investigating crimes and villainous schemes in most of those, with all the "talking to NPCs" and "following a story" that comes with that. It's also commonplace for...

I hadn't particularly noticed them here. How many of them were obviously taking phrases from the recent US presidential debate? I've seen hundreds of those this week on non-political forums as people play with all the new material provided by it.

That's full of really clever stuff. Naturally a castle built by giants would be imposing but just a facade, how would they even fit inside to build interior walls and floors, etc. in the first place? Also feels like a subtle nod to Big Rubble over in Glorantha, with its absurdly huge...

Heh. Of course paper wasps would hand out scrolls as magical rewards. "Spat this one up myself!"

The hard plastic ships ought to make some starship minis gamers pretty happy. There's already unlicensed stl files for pretty much everything from the franchise but not everyone owns a printer - or enjoys outright piracy.

Seems interesting so far. My suspension of disbelief is somewhat strained by the apparent degree of erratic solar behavior, but I suppose this is fantasy and little concerns about apocalyptic disruption of weather patterns and the seasonal (and even daily) patterns of plant and animal life are...

It could be handy if you needed to start a grease fire or something. By way of explanation, the last local Pizza Hut burned down in the early 80s from a grease fire. Riding past the charred remains of the place on the school bus for months afterward formed kind of a permanent mental...

A Looking Glass Jukebox for me, hands down.

Aramis has already done a lengthy post that I don't want to either duplicate or contradict here, so I'm going to point you at one of the index pages on my blog with my (incomplete) musings about the game for you to look at at your leisure. Hopefully there's some content there that will be...

Sentinel Comics unless I want to play a campaign that's going to run more than ~50 sessions, at which point character progression is way too fast and needs tweaking that we haven't worked out with five groups and 30-odd people trying since about 2023. Great system, but short legs for an RPG...

Goodie for you. I watched them axe everything from six different minis games using the A Call To Arms engine (including the historical naval game, Babylon 5, Turning Point, SFB and Noble Armada) to Starship Troopers one after another, in every case while continuing to claim there was going to...

1977, of course. I was around for Mongoose's miniature games days, which saw multiple debacles and sudden cancellations even as Matt was touting upcoming releases to help clear existing stock. To put it mildly, my confidence in them as a business approaches zero even today. Thankfully, I've...

I beg to disagree. I'm between FtF groups at the moment, but Dallman's been posting steadily for quite a while. I suppose I could start reporting PbP games but what a "session" is gets pretty blurry with those.

You're playing the wrong edition for beer-and-pretzels. See if you can find the original Chaosium version where it rapidly degenerates into a monster hunt in the streets if that's what you want from Arkham Horror. Better yet, dig up a copy of Cults Across America and enjoy the Mythos...