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Breaking, Badly The carrier slams bodily into the giant nickel-iron hunk of space debris, the impact instantly caving in her main hangar bay. The momentum of the blow slams the Arminius right back into the Wagner's crippled starboard quarter. The force of the impact is too much for the Wagner's...

Ramming is quite a costly Maneuver. You have to be extremely close (Range 0) and your capital ship and the enemy target both automatically take the same damage (a 2d6 roll). What Caspian did here was to unleash the Sandstorm Vanguard's Slingshot attack.

Yeah I'm still finding new things about modern TTRPGs that owe a lot to 4e. :) Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet in particular took their respective design experiences from 3e and 4e and comboned them to make 13th Age, which uses TOTM and a lot of 4e-style mechanics and monster design, and has...

Last Lifeboat Round 4. State of the fleets: 2nd Crisis Response Group (Union Navy) Battlegroup Eland (Range 4) Interdiction 1d6+2 UNS-BB Nikolai Bukharin (25 HP), 2 volley tokens on 3x3 Block Short-Spool Cannons, 3 greywash tokens. UNS-CV Shamokin Rising (16 HP) 2x Fighter Wing (5 HP, 5...

(Blades in the Dark) Conspiring with an Imperial Sorcerer.

That's one aspect we should see more of in cyberpunk media - bridges, highways and left-behind towns where everything still looks like it did in the 1970s, except more run-down rather than upgraded for the future. There are places like that in the U.S. but I'm also thinking of the small villages...

Let me know how that goes! I had my eye on Amethyst from a while back...

I just picked up In The Time of Monsters by Jay (Wanderhome) Dragon for the Itch Creator's Day sale (ok, it's almost over, but still...) https://possumcreekgames.itch.io/monster-time And also this Black Friday bundle of emotional mecha games by Reizor, which includes the fabulous Black Skies...

I recently discovered a short taboo generation supplement called This Town of Ours by Paddy (The Salt Traders) Hutchinson, which uses d66 rolls to pick various People and Forbiddances in a newly encountered culture. It creates interesting rules like these: In this Town, none may handle...

Musical Chairs Strike Captain Bannon has been on the Hannibal for 30 minutes and she still hasn't managed to take back command of her fleet. Struggling in her emergency vacsuit, she claws her way up a maintenance ladder-shaft. Above her is E3 Nilsson, a deckhand who met her in the damaged mech...

Defiant in Defeat The Bukharin's security troops advance cautiously across the bullet-scarred deck of Sector 40, shields held before them. Scores of hardsuited Harrison Armory marines stand in the open, under the bright hangar lamps, their hardsuits scuffed and scratched and scorched, their...

Taking a Breath, Composing a Letter Tabitha taps her chin thoughtfully. "Not really. Our orders are to prevent additional belligerents from entering the Shore. Allowing him to bypass the battle means that the Purview still gains reinforcements, even if diminished. Additionally, we cannot take...

I think it's valid for players to talk about modern values. How much the characters apply those values in game? Your groups' mileage will vary depending on what you all agree to.

My answers will differ widely depending on the direction and themes of the game, as set out in discussion with my group in Session Zero. For example, Beyond the Fence, Below the Grave has several scenarios that involve slaves in Norse society. If the players I have available aren't interested...

Old Friends The imposing bulk of the Hannibal still stands in the center of the gyre of battle, its batteries continuing to shell the Union fleet, only pausing for the time it takes to cool off when they overheat. Several shots land on target, blasting away hangar boxes on the outer hull of the...

Really interesting to see the new Sandy Antunes project. And collaborations with Warlord Games too!

Battlegroup Splinter: Maneuver - All Ahead Full! Moves into range 2, launches Dorsal Razorback Missiles. Roll of 1 for Sensor Flares, so add 1 to the Payload's flight time. It won't be hitting so soon. Tactic: Lithoscreen: +5 Overshield to the Wagner

The Sword, Part 5 "You gloat too early, Captain. A shattered sword can still slay." Caspian allows a smile to crack across his face as he says that. Then he turns to his crew. "Engines engage full thrust - keep us moving forward. Richards, bring the Sandstorm in closer around us. Bryant...

😁 The rules also give notes about integrating a regular LANCER game with the fleet rules - have players control their parent fleet in the Battlegroup system, but when a boarding action affects the ship their pilot party is on, have a corridor-to-corridor fight using the regular LANCER rules...

You are forgetting about disapora populations in, say, the US, where such games are consumed. Asian-Americans have been negatively affected by harmful stereotypes perpetuated by media such as movies and games (especially in the case of earlier L5R editions - I still remember how easy it is to...