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There's also Deadlands Noir set in a 1932 New Orleans, which fits between Deadlands and Deadlands HoE. Also the SW Weird Wars series, which begins with WW Rome and concludes with WW Tour of Darkness (Vietnam.)

I haven't played in many campaigns recently, where the "GM is out to get you." But it was a different story in my earlier experiences TTRPGing. My first exposure to TTRPGs was playing AD&D1e, for which I played with groups that were under the umbrella of a university War Gaming club. Some of...

Considering this hypothetical scenario has at least those 3, there's no way I'd run it with the 800 lb Gorilla driving the TTRPG biz jugernaut, which is D&D 5e. I'd definitely take this as an opportunity to use a less known system. My 1st consideration would be rules that could run for the...

That makes sense. I did realize it wasn't the politest of terms, but wasn't aware it was that derogatory. Ulakandar is a good name name and it seems to convey some mystery and intrigue.

Very cool, I wasn't aware of that book. Do you know why they renamed the Plains of the Paynim to the Plains of Ulakandar? I'm also curious why they didn't include the Tiger Nomads - in the LGG Ancient Baklunish is spoken there and the Chakyik Hordes seem analogous to nomads living among the...

Yes! I always wanted to adventure in the Baklunish lands, but the closest I got back in the day was the Baklunish kingdom of Ket. The DM then lured our party into the Bramblewood Forest and eventually up in to the Barrier Peaks, where we got wiped! I wanted to take parties there when DMing...

The Organization creation rules in the True20 Experts Handbook are very good and can be used to build large communities for any genre. Its size table defines tiers of membership that can be as large as 660,480 members - why it caps at that #, only the writers know. :) You could easily homebrew...

True20 for sure is a system that could use some houserules. Toughness saves aren't typically a problem for Warrior role PCs, because they can dip into their Toughness feat up to 5 times and end up with a hefty toughness save bonus. And similarly, Expert role PCs can multi-dip their Defensive...

Tales of the Caliphate Nights is a setting which I'd rate as excellent. IMO next to Shadows of Cthulhu, it's among the best settings ever released for True20. I consider it classic Historical Fantasy due to the amount of research that went into it and how much of the culture of the Abbasid...

Interesting. There were a few hobby stores in my area that carried them too, but they tended to be those that also sold figurines for miniature war gaming. Once the fantasy themed figurine brands like Ral Partha became available, they was a noticable uptick in the number of RPG books on their...

In my CDN city in the early 80s, the sales charts would not look anything like those in the OP link, for the simple reason that games stores didn't stock Basic. They'd heard that TSR's president Gygax was only behind AD&D, so that's all they carried. Around the mid 80s a comic store in my city...

I know the OP is looking for suplement recommendations, but for me some of the most inspiring material has been the novels set in the FR. There's the famous Legend of Drizzt series, featuring the drow Drizzt Do'Urden, which begins in the FR's Underdark in the novel Homeland and IIRC continues on...

I really wish they hadn't located The Book of Vile Darkness movie there, because I really like the Nentir Vale setting, but disliked that 3rd movie as much as the 1st. Thankfully the Nentir Vale got the terrific Abysal Plague trilogy of novels, which for me helped wash away the stench of the...

Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. I liked the early FR, but didn't care much for it after the changes intro'd to it during the 4e era. After reading Ed Greenwood's book, the FR seemed like a different and better place.

It's not doubt easier for me to embrace the Mongoose editions...Other than 1 session and the brief campaign I mentioned in which Traveler was 1 of 3 rules used, I have no connection to the earlier editions. I did browse a print version of Traveller5 around the time I was looking at MGT1E, but...

I voted for #1 because I definitely want the option to self host. That said, if a VTT has quality, free hosting I'll use it - doing that with Fantasy Grounds. I wouldn't pay for it though, for the same reasons I no longer use the subscription-only based roll20. I like the option to use my VTT...

I own 5 different flavors of Cepheus Engine and the approach to graphic design varies a lot. I will say, none of them have the production quality of Mongoose Traveler 1e, which the CE SRD is based upon. Of those 5, for the 3 that are close to the MGT1E/CE SRD, Stellegama Publishing's Cepheus...

I think what everyone is hinting at here, is that such costs are setting specific. So homebrew, or borrow from another A/D&D edition. IIRC, when the AD&D1e PHB came out in 1978 there wasn't an official setting. There were adventures set in Blackmoor and regions that would become parts of...

There's a number I like such as 13th Age, Adv OSE, DCC and I've recently discovering Tales of the Valient and PF2e and are liking both. Out of those if I had to chose 1, it'd be 13th Age. It's like a perfected D&D 4e and with a setting that's detailed enough in lore to create a dozen-or-so...

Agreed and in fact the very 1st Midgard campaign I ran was an adaptation of the 3.5/PF1 content to True20. I've also run the setting with 13th Age and Dragon/Fantasy AGE, which was easy due to Kobold publishing Midgard Bestiaries for those editions. The only real lifting for those and it was...