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I voted ‘after a few adventures’ but it would be more accurate to say ‘after a few sessions’. Enough of a sample time to be confident there was an issue we wanted to do something about. I also prefer to minimise house rules.

There are 16 ‘Spotlight’ campaign implementations that were done as part of the original Kickstarter for Prime, but these have only been released to backers and the current owner seems to have no interest in releasing them more widely.

If you subscribe to Playstation+ then Gloomhaven is one of the free games this month.

My set is due for delivery tomorrow, so then I will start to dive into the details 🙂

It looks like more of the complexity is in the cards rather than in the class directly?

That clearly requires a Bend Bars / Lift Gates roll…

I’m looking forward to reading it. This is the second new game to capture my interest; the first was The Broken Empires. They are both systems which take a greatest hits of mechanics in other systems and mix them together to produce something new and interesting. But both are very different...

I don’t have the rules yet (should be with me in a day or so) but my current impression is that DaggerHeart seems similar to 13th Age in so much as the combat system has a fair bit of crunch while the non-combat mechanics are a lot more lightweight while still being present. I liked that about...

I’m not @SteveC and I don’t want to sound facetious, however that was pretty much the summary sales pitch of a whole bunch of not-Wizards D&D-alikes when the OGL scandal happened…

I did, in the UK. I don’t know if they got it through distribution, however.

GM intrusions from Cypher system are similar (I think it is name-checked in the inspiration section). I seem to recall a similar mechanic from the 2d20 games, though I haven’t played those personally. Some of the mechanical options in Cortex Prime also seem similar where a bad roll can result in...

There was also a beta programme, and some people have reviews out based on experience with that. Once they see the final rules they will know if most of their experiences likely still stand or if the final release changed things likely to impact them.

I’ve bought my copy from a UK retailer, there doesn’t seem to be a PDF ‘as standard’ with it. Anyone know if Darrington Press are usually happy to comp copies of PDFs with proof of purpose?

Recent details on this have made me curious, and I managed to find a store in the UK with a couple in stock so, order placed… This video really piqued my interest:

Alas, I don’t do any social media…

Is this competition open to just people in the USA, or any geography?

I hadn’t thought about that, however it is a pretty good description of the differences between the Spidies in ‘Across the Spiderverse’. It’s kind of a meta tag: the context you do things in.

The three axis which come to mind for me are: What you do - classic D&D is an example How you do it - Fate accelerated is an example of this Why you do it - Smallville mechanises relationships and ‘virtues’ which are a good example of this. These can exist in combination, for example D&D 4e...

From my perspective, an RPG system provides the game bit of the role-playing game. As with all games, the system should be understandable and fun to use. The rules should also support the narrative effectively. So, typically that would involve a core mechanic which is used in a pretty...

(Thread too long - didn’t read!) I think RPGs are like Pratchett’s gods - as long as one person somewhere is reading a game and planning running it, or even a better a group is running it, that RPG is still alive.