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I've been playing and DMing 5e since its debut in the Fall of 2014 and many sessions were for my kids and their friends. That said, for the past year I've been taking a leave from 5e, playing and GMing mostly Savage Worlds, CoC and Travallers. Other than Eberron, Dark Sun and World of Greyhawk...

I guess I'll have to be the reader that posts a less than positive comment. I hoped that as I read the Business Stuff section there would've been some mention of the pricing of PDF publications. Mongoose products in PDF format have from the perspective of my wallet, become so pricey that I feel...

I enjoyed The Dark Eye adventure Vampire of Havena and like those rules as a platform for solo gameplay. The Vampire of Havena is specifically tailored as a solo adventure and doesn't require knowledge of the TDE Core Rules or the Aventuria Almanac; the latter being an excellent gazeteer...

I was able to buy a WoT hardcover at a local CON for $10 a few years ago - was unused and pretty much a throw away by the previous owner. I do think it's better that a lot of the 3e Fantasy adaptations that came out in the D20 era. While I don't have any local players that would join such a...

I have, but the other rules were mostly external to the core rule book. A number of my groups of players are tabletop miniature fans too, so they generally prefer combat be played out on the tabletop instead of ToM. That drove a lot of my decision as to how to run combat encounters. When I ran...

13th Age: For me it's really like an improved and cleaner D&D 4e, yet it still supports the rules game play you'd find in a D&D game. If I have a group of players that want something different, more narrative and got some enjoyment playing 4e, it's my go to. Adventure Gaming Engine (Dragon Age...

I was into boardgames for most of the 70s, mostly due to my older brother being in a club who's members would get any title reputed to be worth playing - partially aided by a high school's budget. Other than the mainstream boardgames published by Mattel, Milton Bradley, Parker Bros, etc., the...

Well the spy genre did to some extent in my area, but it may have been the exception. In the early 70's one of our local universities had a sort of Spy cosplay (remember newspaper clips with lots of Modesty Blaises and Flints) that ran over a weekend. They also ran a convoluted and elaborate...

I can only go by what I recall as trends and potential influencers during my childhood during the 1960s -70s, but IMO RPGs probably wouldn't have evolved out of live action game play like SCA, or even the SciFi genre. I started reading novels in my childhood about 5 years before Original D&D was...

This series -Dorohedoro- which I'm currently watching on Netflix... ...It's the most bizarre anime I've watched in some time. It's Urban Fantasy, but it's got a strong punk vibe to it to the point that I feel it's some sort of Magic-punk subgenre. The main protagonists are a man named Caiman...

Midgard World Book/Campaign Setting: I begrudgingly bought the newer World Book, as I'd already run some enjoyable campaigns with the earlier Campaign Setting book. While I miss the quality AGE appendix in the Campaign Setting book, I do find the newer World Book to be the better. I've run...

Many thanks for the suggestions. I do have the AVRAE BOT installed for my Discord Server and have started to explore its textchat commands. So far I've only used it to integrate D&D Beyond character sheets for 5e campaigns. AVRAE does give me the advantage that if my players and I can make the...

I'm looking to run an online 4e campaign in the near future and occasionally some of my players won't be able to connect to my VTT. That's got me looking for a Discord dice BOT that has decent D&D 4e support, so I can at least host them for gameplay via Discord. I currently have D&D Beyond's...

While I haven't run any Modern AGE yet, I do own the Modern AGE CRB and The Expanse and have run Dragon Age and Fantasy Age campaigns. I'm also currently playing in a MgT2E campaign and homebrewing one. I can definitely see what your doing as a good fit for The Expanse. I preferred the way...

Mythras (aka Runequest 6 with serial numbers filed off) is my TTRPG that I'd describe as crunchy. I particularly like the Special Effects for combat encounters and its Combat Styles for PCs. I also like how it handles skills with provisions for augmenting and capping them. I find the PC build...

It's more for the players, as I like to have at least 1 hardcover of the necessary books around a table. For me the Investigators Handbook is essential for the players for the additional Occupations it includes. IMO there's far too few of those in the Keepers Handbook and it takes time to...