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If I was running an impromptu game with just my iPhone or iPad (since my library is in the cloud this could happen) then I would be happy using a dice roller. But at the table my preference is for shiny math rocks.

Six or seven depending on how you count. AD&D adaption, specific Conan RPG from TSR, GURPS, Mongoose d20 (two editions), 2d20, now this.

It’s a new system as I understand it. There was some discussion of it on a Pinnacle stream when the Monolith / Pinnacle collaboration on Solomon Kane was crowdfunding. Expect there to be pledge levels with boxes of minis since they also do the Conan board game.

I’ve been to Gracklestaugh in a couple of different campaigns now. You are not allowed into the city-proper without a pass if you are not deurgar. And since deurgar have inherent invisibility they have squads of invisible guards patrolling looking for people who should not be there. The Darklake...

I have to say, this is a new take on Edition Warring… Well done team! :P

The world book for Stormlight is focused on the time period after book 5, so I guess spoilers are unavoidable for the books. But as a person who has read 1.5 of them currently, the images don’t mean enough to me to spoil things. If you know what the pictures are showing I am sure they stand out...

(I haven’t read the next 16 pages of this thread yet) I think there are a couple of factors which can make dungeoneering more or less fun and they are kind-of two sides of the same coin. It’s about where the game spends its complexity IMO. Most modern RPGs spend their complexity on combat and...

Mentzer Red Box D&D was my entry point (we eventually had them all, up to Immortals though we never played that) and remembering which was my first non-D&D game is tricky. There are a few it might have been: DC Heroes might have been it, or Star Frontiers. Possibly Star Trek (FASA). But I...

Someone in my group will want to run it, since we have some D&D die-hards. And I prefer the alt-cover, so a pre-order it is. But D&D isn’t my personal system of choice and while the twiddles in 5.24 have changed things up somewhat my core disconnects remain. Which is fine; let D&D be D&D.

Did your group make any decisions @Blue?

I would agree that games which can handle big combats are a good choice for this sort of character type. In my experience it often comes down to good rules for minions / mooks / extras which enable lots of combatants in a game. Savage Worlds is a great example and can easily handle this. I...

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That’s really only relevant to 3pp classes* (which is kind of the point of the thread, I guess) since WotC have been clear that you are only supposed to use 5.24 material with the 5.24 rules and where there is like-for-like you need to use the new stuff. So a ‘fighter’ going against 5.24...

Crawford and Perkins have said in multiple videos that CR will be maintained and monster stats will be changed to ‘better represent’ their CR. So CR is intended to remain static here. Obviously this will mean that 3pp monsters may remain out-of-sync with their CR if that was previously the case...

Clearly our mileages vary as GURPS is extremely tactical in my experience. GURPS provides many, varied and impactful choices every round of combat.

I think it can depend. I personally find prep for SWADE super-quick, but one of my co-GMs likes to make lots of intricate custom enemies and that can take a chunk of time.

Yes, but… the very latest version of the rules is the fifth printing of SWADE which has the latest errata included. If you have the rules in PDF you should have them. If not, the errata an be downloaded here. A couple of additional points I would add to the advice you have already been given...

If all you really care about is positioning and differentiation then a set of different coloured meeples could cover that and be endlessly re-usable.

Seems odd to have the King’s head looking left on some stamps and right on others? I know they always look in the same direction on coins (the opposite direction to their predecessor) and assumed it was the same on stamps.

Personally, it is my favourite supers system. I ran a short campaign with it when the new SPC came out and we had a great time. It covered our group of disparate heroes easily- a mutant lizard with strength, toughness and regenerative powers. A woman made of light with laser powers including a...