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Your argument has a number of assumptions, the biggest two that don't work for me are: The 300 archers can all fire at a single target every round. (He is in range, and visible, and deemed enough of a threat, not blocked by the other 299 archers.) After a few rounds of our Barbarian laughing...

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A fair point, and a re-read of the OP made it a little clearer as well. I guess I was happy to see a superhero thread . . . and was sad it wasn't as super as I hoped.

As someone who plays a lot of Super RPGs (mostly my own published game) I am . . . genuinely puzzled by this thread. If it was in one of the D&D forums I wouldn't be puzzled, but this is ttrpg general. . . Have I ever had someone try to mimic a superhero (or super-villain) in a fantasy game...

New Canadian Publishers to the Marketplace in 2021: Here’s a run down of new publishers and designers who joined the marketplace in 2021. With comments on some of their products. A Smouldering Lighthouse Has released their first 2 games this year. Both are GMless story-games. This Spells...

The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom, the first of over 43 OSR modules in Expeditious Retreat's Advanced Adventures line. If you love OSR, this adventure had a huge influence on it. I've personally run it multiple times, and love it. C$6.00, PDF black and white interior, 16 pages...

Just an update to add: Ship to Store returns! With our January promotion ended, you can once again use our ship to store option to have RPG books delivered at discounted shipping to your local Canadian game store. Your friendly local retailer receives a 10% credit on all ship-to-store sales...

A few recent titles of note: The Halls of Arde n Vul, the largest OSR mega-dungeon ever, from Expeditious Retreat Press. C$109 PDF 1120 pages + maps Free Spacer, a sandbox starship RPG about the crew of a commissioned starship performing contracts, from Random Alien Games. C$25 full colour...

The Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace is a Canadian focussed RPG marketplace. We sell both direct to consumers and to Canadian Friendly Local Game Stores. We sell both Print&PDF and PDF only. --edit in May 2024 we officially launched our UK sister site composedreamgames.co.uk You can read a...

An interesting point. There don't seem to be a lot of really crunchy games these days. Hackmaster "5e" is pretty crunchy -- and I love it. They just released their 2nd monster book, mind you the PHB released in 2012 so it's not a "new" game, but ongoing support matters.

I have started recording some "unboxing" videos for some of the titles on the marketplace. Perhaps you'll find one to your liking.

This depends largely on your goals -- and how complex a system you are running to begin with. Yeah you don't need to know exactly how Kratos the indomitable got a +10 to attack, but if you say he is a level 5 fighter, you should have an idea of how he could get there. @Lanefan has made the...

Both are relevant. If action resolution is identical - more immersion/verisimilitude than if not. If build rules are also the same then even more verisimilitude/immersion. It is also a question of what your rules are meant to represent. The base assumption in the discussion thus far is...

This is critical I think. For new players, exposing them to NPCs that have a clear personality that makes their advice suspect is important. Such as: blood-thirsty/reckless, cowardly/cautious, glory-hound, obsequious/servile or indifferent. Once they sort out that NPCs give bad advice...

As mentioned, right now even our PDF sales have 20% go to support a FLGS (we are limiting it to Canadian local game stores, because that is the area we focus on for retailers.) In another thread you and I were discussing some of XPRs Advanced Adventures line, if you do pick one or two up, I...

That is unfortunate @TheAlkaizer. There are good local stores out there (and sometimes you just hit staff at the wrong moment.)

We just added PDFs of Free Spacer! A sandbox science fiction roleplaying game about a crew of a commissioned starship performing contracts for a Patron faction in a quadrant wide cold war. Mechanically you roll your positive salvo dice, and the GMs negative threat dice and cancel our successes...

I just bought the PDF from the CDG Marketplace (which I run, but there was no way I wasn't going to pay for this glorious megadungeon). Joseph has kindly set the price to $109 CAD (~$85 USD if you flip that toggle at the top atm), passing on savings from the lower cut we take to anyone picking...

The connection is very light to Pod-caverns. You can easily use the two Shadowvein modules without it. I have access to XRPs whole Advanced Adventures catalog so if you are curious about a specific title, I'd be happy to take a look and answer it.