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I was looking to get into DCC Lankhmar a while back, but opted to go with the Dying Earth boxset and PDFs instead. I'm glad I made that decision, as it proved to be a quality adaptation and I had fun taking a party to level 4. I own most of the content for both the 2e and SW adaptations of...

I've only sat down to Warriors & Warlocks for M&M a handful of times. I liked it, though I found PCs to be fairly high on the power curve in terms of characters for the types of Fantasy genres D&D embraces. What I've played an GMd a lot however, is True20 which shares the same DNA and a number...

If my game was a Weird Wars adventure, it might mean or evoke something like this... On the leeward side of gnarled and singed bocage, the wounded and burning carcasses of heavy metal, felines - German Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger tanks. The fallen prey of deadeye Anti-tankers, laying silent and...

For sure a bit while playing the Arkham Horror Living Card Game. But it sort of makes sense and comes natural with it, as it's character driven and its core rules share some similarities with TTRPGs. Other than it, only ad-hoc when playing Force on Force miniatures when players felt like being...

Why pre-pandemic? Is there something that makes 2019 and earlier different or special? Anyhow... Yes, I live in a apartment tower in which the 1st, 3 floors are subsidised suites for Persons With Disabilties and Seniors. I'm one of the consultants for the Tenant advisory committee, so gotten...

With all the time I'd have being stranded on a desert Island, I'd for sure be homebrewing. So... SWADE BRP Cepheus Engine

Sounds like you might enjoy Al Qadim. It's an Arabian themed setting created for AD&D2e. In particular, it's good for sea campaigns, as it has a Corsairs of the Great Sea companion and it's 1st adventure (Golden Voyages) has all sorts of seafaring content like ship deck maps and attractive...

I would categorize flavors of the Cepheus Engine as contemporary simulationist. Its SRD is based upon Mongoose Traveler 1e, but there's flavors that diverge away from the far future SciFi of Traveler to more contemporary time frames. Like Traveller it works with the premise that PCs will advance...

It would without a doubt be 13th Age, as there's an official, quality adaptation of Glorantha for it. Not to mention I'm a big fan of 13A. I'm also a fan of Mythras (RQ6 with serial numbers filed off) though and I could see running it with those rules too. I own BRP-UGE, Call of Cthulhu, Delta...

There's also Deadlands Noir set in a 1932 New Orleans, which fits between Deadlands and Deadlands HoE. Also the SW Weird Wars series, which begins with WW Rome and concludes with WW Tour of Darkness (Vietnam.)

I haven't played in many campaigns recently, where the "GM is out to get you." But it was a different story in my earlier experiences TTRPGing. My first exposure to TTRPGs was playing AD&D1e, for which I played with groups that were under the umbrella of a university War Gaming club. Some of...

Considering this hypothetical scenario has at least those 3, there's no way I'd run it with the 800 lb Gorilla driving the TTRPG biz jugernaut, which is D&D 5e. I'd definitely take this as an opportunity to use a less known system. My 1st consideration would be rules that could run for the...

That makes sense. I did realize it wasn't the politest of terms, but wasn't aware it was that derogatory. Ulakandar is a good name name and it seems to convey some mystery and intrigue.

Very cool, I wasn't aware of that book. Do you know why they renamed the Plains of the Paynim to the Plains of Ulakandar? I'm also curious why they didn't include the Tiger Nomads - in the LGG Ancient Baklunish is spoken there and the Chakyik Hordes seem analogous to nomads living among the...

Yes! I always wanted to adventure in the Baklunish lands, but the closest I got back in the day was the Baklunish kingdom of Ket. The DM then lured our party into the Bramblewood Forest and eventually up in to the Barrier Peaks, where we got wiped! I wanted to take parties there when DMing...

The Organization creation rules in the True20 Experts Handbook are very good and can be used to build large communities for any genre. Its size table defines tiers of membership that can be as large as 660,480 members - why it caps at that #, only the writers know. :) You could easily homebrew...

True20 for sure is a system that could use some houserules. Toughness saves aren't typically a problem for Warrior role PCs, because they can dip into their Toughness feat up to 5 times and end up with a hefty toughness save bonus. And similarly, Expert role PCs can multi-dip their Defensive...

Tales of the Caliphate Nights is a setting which I'd rate as excellent. IMO next to Shadows of Cthulhu, it's among the best settings ever released for True20. I consider it classic Historical Fantasy due to the amount of research that went into it and how much of the culture of the Abbasid...

Interesting. There were a few hobby stores in my area that carried them too, but they tended to be those that also sold figurines for miniature war gaming. Once the fantasy themed figurine brands like Ral Partha became available, they was a noticable uptick in the number of RPG books on their...

In my CDN city in the early 80s, the sales charts would not look anything like those in the OP link, for the simple reason that games stores didn't stock Basic. They'd heard that TSR's president Gygax was only behind AD&D, so that's all they carried. Around the mid 80s a comic store in my city...