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Recent ttrpg technology has discovered you can have both with a random table that starts with the phrase "Either pick a result that appeals to you or just roll."

It too be a great tool for that, but for decades I ignored them because even back in the TSR days, most of them indicators for the local ecology at best. Just tables of threat flavored encounters modified by random morale. Nothing surprising or inspiring for me, personally there. The ones I...

From what I understand for some GM with the OSR mindset is that random tables give them the sense "being a player" as they live to be surprised by the results the roll up and quickly interpret them into the gaming fiction. As with everything in life being a spectrum, the boundary of "Too many...

Which has double irony because unless you were very well connected to the right investors, a standard investor has no hope of getting their beak wet on the Facebook IPO. It was the elite of the elite Wall Street thing at the time. Not sure about the Google IPO.

It seems to be the "family curse" in our industry, a gamer is suddenly swimming in money thanks to a lighting in bottle situation and it never ends well. They also discover they are not even remotely leadership material in the worst way possible for everyone around them. No matter how smart a...

Sorry to digress but looking at this list of games made me feel old. To eliminate guesswork, we have included specific conversion rules for integrating The Primal Order with the following popular game systems: The Arduin GrimoireTM Ars MagicaTM Castle FalkensteinTM Chivalry & SorceryTM...

Knowing most of my local groups, I'll have to wait until the party gets to Eberron before I can play a Warforged. :ROFLMAO: (Like most forever DMs, I run Eberron not only because I like it, but also because I never get to play in it.)

Speaking of expensive accessories, I could totally get this book to go with my Tricorder Collectors Set. (It's the whole game, accessories, and a mini-campaign in a cosplay worthy tricorder box. How cool is that!!)

My assumption is they overcharge for dice as they feel they have razor thin margins on other products. As time rolls on, I feel like companies make more on gaming accessories compared to the games themselves.

On the plus side, their articles on Appendix N writers and their works are cool freebies. But yeah, their main aesthetic gives the vibe of a vary talented high schooler in the 1980s who is crafting the ultimate campaign he and his buddies will be talking about up to their 40s when they decide...

In fact, the Lankhmar Campaign box advises not to run a funnel and walks you through a non-funnel character creation process. I enjoy funnels as great little ice breaker one-shots. I have to Goodman props, they know -or have built- an audience they know how to cater to. For me DCC is like one...

My claim to fame is that I ran a DCC Funnel for a geeky bachelor party and it was a hit. For DCC in general, I use the app to avoid looking up the various spell charts/crit/fumble charts.

Frustratingly, many game stores owners suffer from the same symptoms as many game publishers; many get get started more with a plan based on passion vs a business plan. So this could help quite a few stores.

That's a key to this game, even when PC have high skills, there is little HP bloat. So while enemies go down faster, they still pack a punch.

There are whole write ups about this and an errata on a thousand strong unofficial Discord.* https://discord.gg/dragonbane-drakar-och-demoner-community-1173874944430579733 I can't help as much as I converted Free League's other fantasy game campaign - Forbidden Lands: Raven's Purge to...

Evidently Swedish publishers would buy rights to old sci-fi/fantasy novel covers and use them for their books. https://www.amazon.com/God-Tarot-No-1/dp/0441294707 I preordered the Bestiary from a UK retailer to save on shipping as I didn't think I needed the PDF. The wait is agony though! :LOL...

So an perceived issue is that for the boxed rule book alone, there's a low number of monsters -- until you read the Adventure book and find out your monster count has doubled (more than doubled if you count various NPCs as encounters.) Add to that the dice, standees, and solo rules (which...

The standard edition arrived last week. It is nice and sturdy. For Dragonbane GMs, this one is a must have. I got the pre-order as you got the PDF immediately. I am waiting for the standees to go public and order them from our FLGS to support them. They've been letting me host a DB game there...

It didn't happen to me, but a local retailer would keep buying the kits and them complain they didn't work for them without even trying to stock some of the stuff from the kit, like core 5e or Pathfinder books. To clarify, I didn't imply mean they should stock everything but try something. For...

I'd like to add that if you do this tactic and it doesn't work, you can't blame Free RPG Day and say, "We didn't have any luck with it this year."