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All of my STA players are middle aged or older and grew up on the idea of reading the CRB of handbook before you play. They all at least bought the Rules Digest (some the Klingon Empire rules) PDF, as they all eventually wanted to dig into the player targeted content. So for sure, my suggestion...

I have played and run Mythras and own the new Pendragon 6e CRB and GM's Handbook - have never read Burning Wheel. I'd say STA is much less crunchy than both Mythras and Pendragon. More than those 2, STA just seems to be a TTRPG that players get once the dice are rolling on the table.

I by chance you and some of your players are also boardgame fan, I'd highly recommend the Dune Imperium boardgame and its Rise of Ix expansion. That game is a sort of high level outline of the Dune verse and intros players to the Dune factions, most known Houses & leaders, important locations...

To the best of my knowledge, only Savage Worlds features bennies, but there's ceratinly other TTRPGs out there that have a similar metacurrency. Bennies are core to Savage Worlds, as among other things, they allow a player or GM to remove the Shakened condition or to soak a wound. Soaking wounds...

What I tell my players to simply a CRB 1st read, is to read the "Reporting for Duty" chapter 1st, the "Operations" chapter next, followed by the "Conflict" chapter. The reason being, that STA PC creation uses a Life Path system, so they're going to get some of the Starfleet background by going...

The Core Rules were republished for Star Trek Adventures, as the Star Trek Adventures Rules Digest and The Klingon Empire Core Rulebook. Both of those are apparently reorganized for ease of use. I couldn't say what content has changed, but can say that I originally just owned the original STA...

For sure it needs some modernization. A PC gets a feat every level though, so I wouldn't necessarily change too much about feats. True20 removed role(class) restrictions on skills, but made some feats role restricted. Some of those feats probably warrant a 2nd look, to see if some that are...

I had no idea that battlefield Press had done an edtion of TTA for Savage Worlds. The original/earlier TTRPG mentions that "Only a single twenty-sided die is required to play." That makes me wonder if it'd be adapatable to True20 without heavy lifting?

I've played in The Hole in the Oak and The Incandescent Grottoes and enjoyed both. My party members and I didn't have much of a problem grokking OSE. That said, while everyone in the party wasn't experienced with OSR, they were very experienced with D&D and other Fantasy TTRPGs. If this world...

True20 - Green Ronin only supported it for about 3-5 years and for only 1 edition. It got many things right and only a few wrong. I've housruled a simpler wound system for it and consolidated the conditions and grappling rules. IMO that's about all that really needed to be done to make it a...

Yep, when at TTRPG features buckets of dice rolls a VTT is going to speed things up. Regardless of that, any VTT that features auto calculating of To Hit and Damage, is going to do that faster than a player does.

All I can add, is that as a Canadian customer I typically get charged our provincial sales tax and our national goods & services tax for digital purchases - especially from US online stores. There used to be few stores that charged, but IIRC tightening it up was part of the 2018 N.A. free trade...

A CoC adventure I played in which was short (IIRC our Keeper chose an option which shortened it), is The Secret Of Castronegro. It was written in the early days of CoC and is intially set in New Mexico and if I remember correctly it was scary. It's now included in the Cthulhu Companion, which...

Well that would be true if it was a poorly designed VTT, but both Fantasy Grounds and Foundry have free core systems that give you a mimimal set of features. For FG there's 2 called CoreRPG and MoreCore and for Foundry there's the Simple World Building System. They provide a base set of core VTT...

TBH, if a VTT didn't have character sheets with the ability to make dice rolls from them for things like attacks or damage, I wouldn't bother using it. I'd just save my money and use Discord instead with a freebie dice bot, a few channels for maps and Player Character stats and a 2nd Discord...

Well that's the way we had it here in Canada up until the early 90s, before the days of free trade. A number of USA and other Nation's transnational corps had corporate branches here - usually in Greater Toronto or Monreal. And there were distribution/trade centers attached to many of them. Some...

I have mixed feelings about them... When I'm aware they're part of a TTRPG, I check into how easy they are to substitute with standard dice. Before buying Star Trek Adventures, I checked into the Challenge Dice and wanted to be certain they could be easily substituded, which they can. I wasn't...

IME just about any desktop publishing app that's of decent quality can be effectively used to create character sheets. I've personally used MS Publisher, InDesign and FrameMaker with good results. As well, if you're willing to learn tables MS Word can be a good tool and for sure MS Excel will...

Well it reads like it'd be fun for a wide audience, that seems like a premise that could be particuarly fun for teens. I know my daughter, who enjoyed playing then running Bubblegumshoe in her teens, would have enjoyed it. It's been a long time since I played Trail of Cthulhu, but this sounds...

I got the free PDFs for TotV and I've run a number of campaigns in Kobold's Midgard setting, so I'm interested. But no kidding about the shipping taking some of the shine off - it amounts to $25 in my Canadian currencty and added to the base costs brings the total cost to $52 CDN. That's not...