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It really isn’t. The basic unit of value is 1d6 damage which has a standardised point cost, and pretty much everything flows from that. It is extremely ‘gamist’ in my opinion.

I’m ok with them personally. They allow you to basically put a look-up table directly on the dice and, when used effectively, they speed up resolution in play. Access to the dice has been a potential issue in the past, but with 3D printing now widely available that no longer has to be a...

There are five Dungeon Fantasy bestiaries, and four Nordheim bestiaries. GURPS is pretty well served these days.

There seems to be two pretty distinct groups of supers games these days. There are pretty firmly narrative games where the ‘power’ of a character measures their ability to drive or influence the narrative with their chosen skill set, irrespective of what the skill set is. These games seem to...

Savage Worlds is my favourite system. I would put it at a similar level of crunch to 5e, but it uses its crunch better in my opinion. It’s great for an action-adventure feel and it has good support for a wider range of activity than many other systems with good rules for chases, generally...

When 3e came out, I was probably a decade away from the last time I had played D&D (2e as it happens, through I had probably played more BECMI or 1e at that stage in my D&D ‘career’). We moved away from 2e to Rolemaster and GURPS as our main game systems. I would have probably heard about 3e on...

One of the starting options in Savage Rifts is a dragon hatchling… In general, this concept is only tricky in level-based systems where it wasn’t baked-in from the very beginning. Point based systems like GURPS or HERO handle this effortlessly. In one campaign we played using GURPS, one of the...

That’s an interesting point - didn’t Jeremy say he was working on a full campaign world? And we now know series 4 will feature a new world… Clearly Jeremy joining couldn’t have been the start of this venture (too recent) but it could easily have been in train when he joined and he has taken...

That mechanism sounds very similar to how interpersonal scenes will be handled in The Broken Empires. I wonder if they are both drawing inspiration from a similar source (The One Ring was a stated influence for TBE).

I have a dedicated gaming room, so tend to host one of our groups, whether I am a player or the GM. In my other group one of the players is a landlord and he bought a small house just to run games in… so that group plays there unless he is unavailable for a session, at which point we tend to...

The wound system is in Invisible Sun. Assuming it works the same, you track damage (injuries) and three points of damage convert into a wound level, you can take three wounds before you are taken out. There is more to it than that, of course.

I recently picked up Moonring which is a retro game, inspired by Ultima (4, I think) and developed by one of the original developers of Fable. It’s free for the full game, so what’s not to like? There is a paid-for add-on if you like it and want to support the developer.

Yes 🙂

Experiencing novelty and overcoming adversity- those things make up adventure in my mind. Levelling and treasure are how we measure progress, but not an end in their own right.

The system is d% blackjack, where you want to roll under your skill but high. You earn success levels equal to the ‘tens’ die of your roll, and many rolls seem to be opposed where you compare success levels between the two parties. The magic system is very interesting IMO. Arcane magic is verb...

I’m a backer of The Broken Empires (TBE) and have been following pretty much all the info shared on it. Just to check your initial understanding on the system: it isn’t rules lite. It is sim-lite which means it is a simulationist system but lighter than systems like Harn, Runequest, or GURPS...

Bonus question for the GMs replying, please - out of interest, usually what percentage of your player group is in more than one of your campaigns?

Lots of really interesting experience there, folks. Keep ‘em coming!

Personally I generally avoid games which use apps. The only two I have seen make it worthwhile were the XCOM board game and Mansions of Madness. But even then, I wouldn't buy these personally since the app might go out of support and then the game cannot be played (unless there is an open...

This statement caught my eye, and I thought it was worth a thread of its own, rather than derailing the original one: I’ve never run more than a single campaign at one time. For those of you that do, how do you handle this? Multiple campaigns set in the same world? Possibly even coexisting and...