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AD&D 2e. It was the edition that was dominant when I took a lengthy leave from TTRPGs while raising a young family. I only recently played it for the 1st time and very much enjoyed it. Along with 13th Age and Old School Essentials, it's now among my favorite D&D editions or variants. It seems to...

If I'm GM'ing around an IRL table, I buy a print copy of the CRB for the players. Sometimes I'll also buy a print copy of a companion or handbook targeted at players, if it has significant impact on how they'd play or build PCs. Otherwise, everything else is a PDF that I view on my tablet. I...

The Journeying system from Adventures in Middle Earth. I've used it with Dragon AGE, 13th Age w/Midgard and Savage Worlds w/Beasts & Barbarians. I've always had good results with it, albeit I've needed to make some adjustments as at its default it's understandibly targeted at Middle Earth. I...

I remember the attempt at simplified rules in the 25th Anniversary box set, which every player I knew despised. I thought they might be about right for my 12 year old son, who I was introducing to Battletech. He'd briefly browsed the thicker, condensed rule booklet in that set, which was a...

Alpha Strike are the rules I use for the vast majority of my SciFi minis play. The reason being, is I use Alpha Strike's ground, abstract aerospace and abstract capital ship rules for the combat enounters for my SciFi TTRPG sessiosn. I have forumlas for Savage Worlds, Cepheus Engine, Traveller...

For me an encounter is akin to a scene within an act, with a number of acts per adventure. I usually like my acts to follow an adventure hook, so it’s difficult to have scenes/encounters that’re completely random. I usually run sandbox campaigns with plot point funnels, where the party achieves...

As someone who also buys boardgames, I've become less than keen on preorders. IME it's hit & miss, with frequently unacceptable, lengthy delays before a game goes into production/print. I particularly dislike GMT Games (one of the biggest BG publishers) P500 system, where 500+ preorders must be...

Many thanks for that review and your impressions. TBH, based upon what's described, I can't see using it over Fate Accelerrated. Other than stunts and setting background, It sounds like there's not much else you could be borrow or milk from existing AGE rules and settings. That's something I...

Well TBH, unless it contained a significant reduction in the number of Focuses, it's not something I'd consider buying. Unfortunately, the blurb on the Green Ronin site gives no hints as to what has actually changed, just that it's supposedly simpler. I'm interested in hearing what's changed...

Well there's no surpise there, as roll20 owns OneBookShelf (owners of Drivethrurpg). TBH it'd be a surprise if there weren't much more roll20 DLC than what's available for Fantasy Grounds or Foundry.

Never watched it. It's one of these ongoing youtubes where you watch people playing through adventures - right? I would imagine the fun is supposed to be around the human interaction of the players RPGing. So why does changing the rules system spell doomsday for some? Note; I don't follow any...

I wouldn't want it to be built upon 5e, but instead would much prefer it used a chassis based upon 13th Age. Mostly because WotC had some good ideas in GW 7e, but really pooched it up in a few areas. IMO, an edition that embodied the changes 13A made to the 4e core, would be very good. As well...

It started yesterday (Fri Aug 29th) here in Canada. So at least in the Great White North it's happening. So...if you want this beautiful mirror ball made in a non-USMCA garage in Toronta... ...ya gotta pay 35% more plus $80 shipping.

Yep, I read the same.

I saw a news ticker on the CBC News broadcast where the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses estimates that a 3rd of all their members will be effected by this change. Unfortunately I missed the actual interview. I don't know what % of all CDN manufactures and retailers CFIB members...

The Pendragon Starter Set (6e) costs $25 USD and is excellent quality. The rules booklet that comes with it is particularly good - well written with far more coverage of the core rules than you typically get in a Starter Set. The rest of it is terrific too, with the pregen Knights being top...

I'm not very familiar with all 2d20 settings, but to the best of my knowledge there isn't. To the extent that it seems Modiphius has deliberately chosen to avoid that style of Fantasy with the 2d20 rules. At one point I was hopeful that Dreams and Machines would have something like magic via...

Part of the weirdness may be due to Blackbook Editions being far better known as a publisher that localizes products into French. They have an impressive resume for that, having localized some high profile TTRPGS. They even localized a book (Interface Zero 2.0) that I was a setting writer for...

IMO Delta Green is a better crunch comparison and I agree STA is a bit less. The big thing in comparing STA to Delta Green, or Call of Cthulhu for that matter, is that PCs don't have to contend with Sanity so there isn't sanity rules to learn. Which are crunchy in both DG and CoC; albeit IMO...