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This feels a bit like the half-cut plot about the droid planet in KOTOR2, but at least with a TTRPG we can choose to run the original adventure premise if we want to. 🙂 We came across some of those obelisks and the planned reveal could have been really cool.

Book 32 pt 1 is coming this year, that’s been shared by Holmgard Press.

It comes from pinball machines. If you tried to cheat by lifting the machine they went into ‘tilt’ mode.

Very interesting, thanks for the write-up. Are you familiar with Trinity Continuum Core? If so, how would you compare them?

The collectors edition line stalled I think; someone else was publishing them. The new series are the Definitive Editions and published directly by Holmgard Press (Ben Devere’s company).

I think it is useful to differentiate between mechanics and procedures. D20 games have a solid mechanic in d20 + mods vs DC. And they tend to have a robust combat procedure which uses that mechanic. But often they don’t have many other procedures. A game which balances this well, for me, is...

I have learned that lesson 🙂 But there is a difference between ‘too hard’ and ‘never even tried’ which is clearly in display in some cases.

If one went all-in on that concept the wave of ‘card crafting’ games that have started to come out could have an interesting trick to steal. Games like Unstoppable where a card can be built up from a base card and up to two enhancements. That could be used to quickly generate an almost infinite...

It has some Torg vibes, but there aren’t reality cosms where the rules of reality bend as you enter them.

There was a new GURPS Infinite Worlds PDF released recently: Gotterdammerung. Infinite Worlds in general are a series of alternate-earth worlds with key divergences from the ‘home timeline’. Gotterdammerung is a ‘unique’ phenomena in the Infinite Worlds campaign frame. It features multiple...

That’s why I picked up a copy of the Dragon Prince RPG. I’m unlikely to run it but a worked example of Cortex is a handy thing to have. I have the Cortex Plus games in PDF, but Dragon Prince is Cortex Prime.

We’ve run 40K in both GURPS (before there was an official 40k RPG) and more recently in Savage Worlds. Both worked really well for us. The newest Sci-Fi companion for SWADE has a number of sub systems and arcane backgrounds which would be very handy for implementing bits of 40k. The system...

That’s an amusing typo or brain fart 😂 SWADE hits my sweet spot so an easy 6 on the scale for me. But the most important thing is that a game uses its complexity well. D&D 5e might be a similar complexity to SWADE but I find that SWADE gives me more useful tools for gaming over what 5e delivers.

Free League didn’t write The One Ring, they just publish it.

Being John Malkovich was a documentary…

Savage Worlds Plot Point Campaigns are my favourite style of linear-ish modules. The concept is that each adventure has 6-8 plot related encounters / mini adventures (they might include several encounters chained together as one plot point - easily a full session of content, perhaps two session...

Ars Magica Definitive Edition was the nudge we needed to play it again - we’re currently about four sessions into a campaign and re-learning all the rules as we go. It doesn’t change the rules as I understand it, more consolidate and re-present them, so we’ve being using our pre-existing 5e...

Ah yes, Chaosium started five years earlier than SJG did.

Well, my three votes (Broken Empires, Ars Magica, Invincible) all placed so I feel validated 🙂 Congratulations to Professor DM!

They are quite possibly the most longevitous small publisher of RPGs these days?