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I just got the bundle & I'm reading the series for the 1st time. I've started with Before the Incals, which at 3 volumes in has been fun. I have no idea whether that series is a good place to start exloring the verse - is it? I agree that this would be a fun verse to run a TTRPG campaign in...

Yep, Battlefield Press did, but there isn't much to it. That said, IME there isnt much lifting required to adapt anything written for SWD to SWADE. I'd forgotten I bought everything written for B&B in a DTRPG sale.:) Comparing Gold to Steel, the latter is the one to get, if you're not bothered...

The Dragon Age Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. That's mostly because it combines the original box sets' 3 Player and 3 Game Master guides into 1 book. I have some issues with that edition of the AGE rules, but that doesn't detract from the completeness of the book. It contains very thorough...

The PDF version of the Rohan Region Guide was released to purchasers of the Humble bundle. That bundle was available just before Cubicle7 lost the license and included every AiME PDF published + Rohan. I have it and like the rest it's a quality publication. I can't recall for sure if it was...

DCC Dying Earth is a very good adaptation of Vance's 21st Aeon. It adds its own occupations which are very reflective of the Dying Earth. It also adds something called Animus which are bit like some of the hindrances in SW, but much more thematic to the setting. It adds the 3 classes of...

The only S&S I'm running these days is DCC+Dying Earth and Savage Worlds+Lankhmar. Both are fun to GM and play for different reasons. l own and have run in the past SW+Beasts & Barbarians, Mythras+Monster Island and a variety of S&S settings for BRP. When my players and I get an itch for...

I'd categorize SWADE as a system as strong for non-combat roleplaying. Of the 12 TTRPG rules I use, I'd group it among the better 3 with FATE Core being the best. As dbm and others have already mentioned, there's a number of gameplay mechanics that support encounters other than combat. But a...

Savage Worlds had this via the Tattered Banners companion for the 3rd party Beasts & Barbarians settings. It has content like war band creation, additional rules for Mass Battles and how to manage war bands. It also contains some GM specific rules like how to support war bands in a campaign, as...

People and collaborative/cooperative story telling. That's what sold me on joining in on AD&D 1e adventures back in the day and it's never grown old.

Well...I look at my TTRPG bookshelf and I see my HCs and SCs for Basic Roleplaying, Savage Worlds, FATE Core, Cepheus Engine and True20 and IME they can do all the genres you list. Though some do require companions in edition to the CRB for some of them. I won't give a detailed explanation for...

Yep, that more or less describes me too. If you consider senior years to begin at 55, I'm a fair ways into seniorhood. I just started studying Spanish this year and as to TTRPGs, I get bored if I don't have a new ruleset to learn and master at least once a year. I admit that my capacity to learn...

I purged a lot almost 4 years ago when I moved and managed to get my CRB print books down to 5 (D&D5e, SWADE, FATE, Mythras, CoC 7) . I reduced my printed splat and companion books by an even greater amount - really only kept setting books. I've since added HC CRBs for Dungeon Crawl Classics...

Along the lines of Deadlands...I've used Savage Worlds+Horror Companion for the Action-Horror subgenre and achieved good results. If you're referring to the SW edition of Deadlands, you'll get a similar vibe and experience those 2. You might have to turn a few nobs and push a few sliders like...

I worked in the Geographic Info Systems biz 30 years ago and map making of one form or another has been a hobby ever since. I don't seem capable of ever growing tired of creating them, but these days the majority of them are just digital maps for import into a VTT. 1. I've never used or seen...

I currently have a group of players in a campaign using Adventures in Middle Earth. They've been enjoying it, but TBH I'm so jaded on D&D 5e that I'd be happier running the setting with a different TTRPG. I lent some of my players my copy of The One Ring, but they weren't exactly thrilled with...

I'm feeling enticed to get this and make it a gift for my son - cut his TTRPG teeth on Dragon Age. I only bought Green Ronin's Expanse PDF, but I own the Modern Age HC which The Expanse is based upon and feel it's the best edtion of AGE so far. I might just opt in for a copy of the content for...

I like much of what I've read here in terms of the direction Paizo is taking the playtest. I just got the 2e Playtest Rulebook, as I'm joining a playtest in a few weeks. I'm more or less completely new to Starfinder, having only played briefly in 1 SF1e adventure which all other players in my...

Physical dice are a must have feature for me when I play IRL around a table. The same is true most of the time if I solo, although if I the solo RPG also is on one of my VTT rulesets, I'll sometimes use the VTT dice. For the most part, digital dice are something I only use when playing or...

Like a number of the Cortex based games that Margret Weiss published for established IPs, Supernatural The Roleplaying Game is best suited to players and GMs that want an RPG experience that closely mimics the TV series. If your goal is to have Supernatural+elements of X-Files, IMO it isn't the...

It was Traveller and Gamma World around the same time. A DM at my college D&D club was transitioning between AD&D1e, Traveller and Gamma World rules in a campaign, depending upon the current setting. It sounds crazy and at times it definitely was, but the DM was one of the most skilled I ever...