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I just bought Draw Steel and thought it would be useful to have a thread specifically on it rather than mixed in with some other topics. I picked it up after watching Matt Coleville’s video on the different classes, which made them all sound pretty amazing… I’m only about a third of the way...

I did a business post-grad a long time ago. Supply and demand is tricky. The best possible result for a supplier is to sell out of all-but-one product. Then you know you met the potential demand with the minimal over production. If you sell out, you have no hard indication of how big the...

There’s been a bit of a nostalgia wave recently, both in terms of re-releasing game books like Fighting Fantasy and the Lone Wolf itself, as well as some board games based on popular IPs form the 80s. Here’s a new one - a board game based in the adventures of Lone Wolf. The game is on...

I really like The Dresden Files - I’ve read all the main-series books to date and enjoy the world building. I’d love to play the official Dresden Files RPG, and one day I am sure I will. But not so far :) It amuses me that Fate is often seen as a poster-child of light weight game systems, and...

Watched the film last night; I enjoyed it. Re the ‘no animals harmed’ tagline, there was a short behind-the scenes about how they did Krypto and they had a reference dog when filming some scenes, to check what a real dog’s fur would look like under that specific lighting. Lois also had a real...

Cool, I have that but didn’t realise it was in there 🙂

Is that adventure available anywhere (legitimately)?

I voted ‘rarely’. When I am running it tends to be one of Pinnacle’s Savage Worlds ‘plot point campaigns’ which are a loose structure where there are typically ~8 plot-based adventures and maybe a dozen non-plot adventures all provided in outline. Typically these adventures may be in a sandbox...

Any indication why they changed the book numbers? Left to right they should be 1, 6, 5, 3, and 2 originally in the UK.

There is a GURPS PDF which guides a GM through setting up a campaign and optional rules to hit the key notes of a specific narrative inspiration you want to emulate - GURPS Adaptions. And I personally think GURPS has a good level of support for roleplaying. Again, there is a whole book on...

The amount of character points PCs start with is up to the GM. While there are common point values, there are no specific rules defining that.

I saw one reviewed recently on The Player’s Aid YT channel. I think it was an American Civil War game.

I can sympathise over the squared maps, as I have about a dozen Loke map books which all use squares. The majority of maps for VTTs also seem to use squares. But I agree it is something you can work around fairly easily.

I think something was lost when multi-classing moved away from the AD&D model. Given the way XP worked, a two-multiclass character would typically be one level behind a single-class character, which was a noticeable difference but they were still very able to contribute. Being a 5/5...

Personally I prefer broad advancement for my characters. I like to be flexible, and find that this approach lends more to that in play. The tricky bit for a system is to be broad or detailed enough that you can have a party of broad characters without them all seeming cookie-cutter in nature...

Free League just publish that one, they didn’t write it.

The Action! line is all about using more fuzzy / less concrete options to keep things moving. There’s usually a GURPS for any variation you want to go with.

The main tactical choice in DW is avoiding being ganged-up on. Since you split your defence score between your attackers, being out-numbered is very dangerous. That makes it potentially more tactical than contemporary D&D IMO. (still have the originals, plus the Serpent King books on my shelf)

I bough SotWW a little while back and have read the player's and GM's books. It's an interesting, relatively lightweight system. I would be very interested to hear actual play experiences, especially how GMs find the non-combat elements of the rules?

There is a new ‘retro clone’ of Magic Realms - Dragons Down. Much easier to get hold of, and the rules have been cleaned up, too.