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I’m reading the combat section now and it’s clear they are going for dynamic battles. Two whole pages covering what happens when you push, pull, or slide an enemy. Including the possibility of uppercutting them off the ground meaning they take falling damage. This is off the charts. 😄 And they...

It’s original name was Dragons and Demons so the demon classification makes a kind of sense.

After seeing Matt’s video on all the classes I moved off the fence enough to buy a bundle of books and PDFs from their web store. I’m about a third of the way through the Heroes book and so far everything is epic. The character powers are pretty amazing from the get-go. A 1st level Draw Steel...

Don’t see that one, I’ll ask for this to be closed

I just bought Draw Steel and thought it would be useful to have a thread specifically on it rather than mixed in with some other topics. I picked it up after watching Matt Coleville’s video on the different classes, which made them all sound pretty amazing… I’m only about a third of the way...

I did a business post-grad a long time ago. Supply and demand is tricky. The best possible result for a supplier is to sell out of all-but-one product. Then you know you met the potential demand with the minimal over production. If you sell out, you have no hard indication of how big the...

There’s been a bit of a nostalgia wave recently, both in terms of re-releasing game books like Fighting Fantasy and the Lone Wolf itself, as well as some board games based on popular IPs form the 80s. Here’s a new one - a board game based in the adventures of Lone Wolf. The game is on...

I really like The Dresden Files - I’ve read all the main-series books to date and enjoy the world building. I’d love to play the official Dresden Files RPG, and one day I am sure I will. But not so far :) It amuses me that Fate is often seen as a poster-child of light weight game systems, and...

Watched the film last night; I enjoyed it. Re the ‘no animals harmed’ tagline, there was a short behind-the scenes about how they did Krypto and they had a reference dog when filming some scenes, to check what a real dog’s fur would look like under that specific lighting. Lois also had a real...

Cool, I have that but didn’t realise it was in there 🙂

Is that adventure available anywhere (legitimately)?

I voted ‘rarely’. When I am running it tends to be one of Pinnacle’s Savage Worlds ‘plot point campaigns’ which are a loose structure where there are typically ~8 plot-based adventures and maybe a dozen non-plot adventures all provided in outline. Typically these adventures may be in a sandbox...

Any indication why they changed the book numbers? Left to right they should be 1, 6, 5, 3, and 2 originally in the UK.

There is a GURPS PDF which guides a GM through setting up a campaign and optional rules to hit the key notes of a specific narrative inspiration you want to emulate - GURPS Adaptions. And I personally think GURPS has a good level of support for roleplaying. Again, there is a whole book on...

The amount of character points PCs start with is up to the GM. While there are common point values, there are no specific rules defining that.

I saw one reviewed recently on The Player’s Aid YT channel. I think it was an American Civil War game.

I can sympathise over the squared maps, as I have about a dozen Loke map books which all use squares. The majority of maps for VTTs also seem to use squares. But I agree it is something you can work around fairly easily.

I think something was lost when multi-classing moved away from the AD&D model. Given the way XP worked, a two-multiclass character would typically be one level behind a single-class character, which was a noticeable difference but they were still very able to contribute. Being a 5/5...

Personally I prefer broad advancement for my characters. I like to be flexible, and find that this approach lends more to that in play. The tricky bit for a system is to be broad or detailed enough that you can have a party of broad characters without them all seeming cookie-cutter in nature...

Free League just publish that one, they didn’t write it.