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I've toyed with the idea of introducing halfvantage to my games, where you roll 2d20 like regular advantage, but the second die only counts if it rolls an even number. (And the reverse for halfdisvantage, where the second die only counts if it rolls an odd number.)

I'm pulling the ol' blue cover Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide off my shelf to reread it. If nothing else, I will forever fondly remember it for the phrase "multi-barrel wand of megadeath" that has delightfully been lodged in my brain for 34 years. :D

For a few campaigns I've adopted a two-prong approach that has worked really well. If the campaign world is an original/new one, I will write up a 1-2 page overview of the world, often presented from (or some portion of it is) some "in-world" source. Sometimes that's a narrative story...

I backed both Avatar and Coyote and Crow. I have played Avatar a bit, and it seems like a solid enough implementation of the PbtA ruleset (though more time with the conflict sections might be needed to get a full impression of how well that part works, though I do like that explicitly after...

Having recently run I3 Pharaoh for one of my groups (we're into I4 Oasis now) in the 5e ruleset, and having made a bunch of my own changes to the adventure, I'm curious to see/read the updates and alterations they put in this book. To a lessor extent for Barrier as well, though I haven't...

My first RPG I bought, then ran, then played was Top Secret. The box cover immediately piqued my interest and I immediately began saving up to buy it! (I haven't played a spycraftian game in ages, definitively would love to do so again.) It was only about 3 or so years later when I first...

nodnods Which now has me thinking about flavourful, magical, long-distance communication methods such as animal messenger, light displays, druidically enhanced fleet-of-foot runners, amplified drum beats, spirit image sending, arcane marked inukshuks, and the like.

General Hawk: "What part of highly trained, precision special mission force did you not understand?" :P

Good point, and pre-colonization the first nations were masters at waterway travel, with canoes of all types (dugout, bark, skin, kayaks, etc) depending on the region for both the materials available but also the type of waterways to be plied. And for that matter, where in Canada also can have...

Nice! I can totally see, in that typical "humour moment at the end of the episode" way, Postal turning to DC and WW to say, "Well done Joes, we do OK," and then, with no warning or change of expression, falling over and snoring. :D "It made for a funny situation but was ineffective," is a...

Thirding Tribe 8, and seconding Rifts: Canada and Rifts: Quebec. There's also "Champions of the North" for the Champions/HERO game and system. Now that you mention it, the Maritimes and Newfoundland could make for an interesting spot to play, with its water travel and islands allowing for a...

Just noting here that it is a classic DARVO move to begin accusing others of having starting the fire. And that, really, you're just the poor extinguisher trying to save the building.

That is really, really, really unfortunate. :/ I can hope that he didn't see the book and took something he saw from the false-outrage-manufacturers at face value and reflexively responded to that.

0.18% (rounding up) of the book notes that some of the material being lavishly reproduced and celebrated within is discriminatory. With a fairly mild disclaimer that notes it and also doesn't mention any names. The book does not reduce Gary to this one issue. Quite 99.82% to the contrary.

It could be something simple, like such: Fighter – Heavily armored warriors Weaponmaster Tempest Battlerager Arena Fighter Brawler Guardian Slayer Rogue – Agile and cunning strikers Artful Dodger Brutal Scoundrel Cunning Sneak Ruthless Ruffian Swashbuckler Druid – Master of primal magic...

1) Would be a classic. A pair of bog-standard blue cobras blow a hole in the wall, and there's Dr Mindbender, cape flapping on the wind as he stands at the front of the Moray hydrofoil, and they bring everyone onboard and motor away. Cue chase scene. :) (If it's not next to the water...

Aye, funnily enough I was just thinking about this last night as well. 4e ended up with two types of subclasses; one for certain classes like the fighter that got different classes but, more like 1e/2e, were categorized under a "category class" so they could share feats (such as the Fighter...

Hope you get to play for a long time too! :) I'd be keen on reading what further shenanigans your players get up to, and your further impressions of the game, especially what bits of it push its narrative focus.

Totally fair. As noted, I can get overly exuberant about it. :P And Cortex Prime also takes a bit of a mind shift in how you go about playing the game (running it too) compared to d20-like games, so it could be a double hard sell. If the Renegade rules work well enough to keep you all...

Apologies in advance, as there’s no way I can make this short, but I’ll do my best. :P It was an epic moment and one of my top gaming memories (and best die rolls) ever. This was under WEG's D6 engine, and of the official versions I have played (I never did D20, but have tried FFG's) it...