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I know the OP is looking for suplement recommendations, but for me some of the most inspiring material has been the novels set in the FR. There's the famous Legend of Drizzt series, featuring the drow Drizzt Do'Urden, which begins in the FR's Underdark in the novel Homeland and IIRC continues on...

I really wish they hadn't located The Book of Vile Darkness movie there, because I really like the Nentir Vale setting, but disliked that 3rd movie as much as the 1st. Thankfully the Nentir Vale got the terrific Abysal Plague trilogy of novels, which for me helped wash away the stench of the...

Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. I liked the early FR, but didn't care much for it after the changes intro'd to it during the 4e era. After reading Ed Greenwood's book, the FR seemed like a different and better place.

It's not doubt easier for me to embrace the Mongoose editions...Other than 1 session and the brief campaign I mentioned in which Traveler was 1 of 3 rules used, I have no connection to the earlier editions. I did browse a print version of Traveller5 around the time I was looking at MGT1E, but...

I voted for #1 because I definitely want the option to self host. That said, if a VTT has quality, free hosting I'll use it - doing that with Fantasy Grounds. I wouldn't pay for it though, for the same reasons I no longer use the subscription-only based roll20. I like the option to use my VTT...

I own 5 different flavors of Cepheus Engine and the approach to graphic design varies a lot. I will say, none of them have the production quality of Mongoose Traveler 1e, which the CE SRD is based upon. Of those 5, for the 3 that are close to the MGT1E/CE SRD, Stellegama Publishing's Cepheus...

I think what everyone is hinting at here, is that such costs are setting specific. So homebrew, or borrow from another A/D&D edition. IIRC, when the AD&D1e PHB came out in 1978 there wasn't an official setting. There were adventures set in Blackmoor and regions that would become parts of...

There's a number I like such as 13th Age, Adv OSE, DCC and I've recently discovering Tales of the Valient and PF2e and are liking both. Out of those if I had to chose 1, it'd be 13th Age. It's like a perfected D&D 4e and with a setting that's detailed enough in lore to create a dozen-or-so...

Agreed and in fact the very 1st Midgard campaign I ran was an adaptation of the 3.5/PF1 content to True20. I've also run the setting with 13th Age and Dragon/Fantasy AGE, which was easy due to Kobold publishing Midgard Bestiaries for those editions. The only real lifting for those and it was...

Not an elevator pitch, but ToV is the TTRPG that Kobold's Midgard World setting will be focused on moving forward. I'm a huge fan of Midgard and have run campaigns set in it with 3 different TTRPGs. And while I can homebrew to my heart's content with what I have, Kobold has consistently released...

I've noticed that the Going Underground adventure for Rivers of London is on sale at drivethru today at a huge 80% discount. I own the hardcovers for CoC 7, BRP UGE and the PDFs for Delta Green, but haven't gone there yet with RoL. So...I'm wondering if RoL is close enough to core BRP, for me to...

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...