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I've used a "hand-drawn" map, not in scale, to show some key areas, like entrance, a few rooms and the main room with the BBEG. I made battlemaps for each of those areas and used Skill Challenges to "connect" the rooms or help in navigation. I really liked this approach since I avoided mapping...

I've read AW, but not played or ran it. I've ran a few sessions of PbtA games: Ironsworn and Zombie World, both of which (as someone else said) are AW-adjacent. That's probably why I like both of them (and I really like Zombie World). While I was not turned off from the sex moves of AW, I would...

Whack-a-mole with wargs (5e D&D Storm Kings Thunder)

Yeah, I found FG to be ideal not only for writing my home brews but taking notes as well. It’s handy with links to images, maps, encounters and such. For face-to-face stuff, I use OneNote.

Prophet and Scientist flee Prison (Zombie World)

AFAIK it does - as a mega adventure it’s classic.

My first reaction was Cult of the Reptile God. I’m planning on running that in 5e for a local group (hopefully there’s a conversion somewhere). Then I saw the Queen of Spiders series. Definitely would be a must buy for me - and there’s plenty of good early-level adventures for 5e.

If you had ever played the board games, Fury of Dracula and Evolution, there’s online versions for both. Fury is on Steam. I bought Evolution directly from the publisher IIRC.

I’ve been playing with my bro since I began playing. He’s the one who got me into this. And we’re starting up a campaign now (superheroes, I’m GMing, he’s playing). I got a few of my kids to play. One lost interest when he got older (darn) and two remain interested but only on a casual basis...

This definitely looks interesting. The description is hitting all of the highlights of what I’ve loved about DS. So tempted….

A lot of good advice so far. A few other comments: - Plan on having a session to work on tech to make sure everyone has updated the VTT, has good connections and audio, etc. I wanted to start gaming right away for my first foray into online gaming, and half the session was focused just on tech...

I’ve heard of Evermore before all of this. They haven’t taken over it, have they? (Cuz I was thinking of adding it to my bucket list).

If they did, I would have expected them to publish it, pointing out how evil they are. So my bet would be on they didn’t.

Yeah, this is how I saw Champions. Just like how D&D pretty made up its own sub-genre of fantasy, so did Champions for superheroes. Even if PCs were made as expys of some known Marvel or DC heroes, they forged their own identities through play. And Champions had a lot rules to develop that...

Three words came to mind after reading this: unprofessional, clueless, inadequate Unprofessional - It was a bit TMI. It's appears that he wore his heart on his sleeve when he wrote that (I hope no publicist did that), and while we're a small industry so some informality may be expected or...

How about a “mismatch of values?” This company’s values don’t match mine and therefore I don’t care to purchase any of their products. I find threads like this to be very helpful - in deciding who to spend my hard earned dollars on.

I have a love/hate view of Champions. It’s the system that I’ve ran my longest superhero campaign, and it really support progress - power increases, buying off disads and vehicles and bases. But combat can take long. So, looking for shortcuts. Bought Champions Now, but it wasn’t what I was...

Street fighter magic is back! (Street Fighter: The Role Playing Game)

Another vote for World Axis. When I started my 5e campaign during the pandemic, this was the cosmology I used (with some home brew changes). There is a great fan made compilation of World Axis lore (not a copy and paste but a wonderful synthesis of various sources). I used that as the bible for...

It's been a long time I've ran an Epic-level campaign but 4e's tiers of play would be the closest template I'd follow for High Fantasy. In the ones I've planned (but never finished), I adjusted the scale a bit so that the high end is "just" world changing (versus multi-verse). I find that scale...