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My local game shop happened to have Scum and Villainy in their shelf, so now I have it. At first I was a bit disappointed how little difference there is from the base Blades in the Dark - I had expected more rules customization - but on a second read i think its pretty good. Eclipse Phase is a...

I actually own all of these :), played quite a lot of 1E Pendragon back in the day.

Something I love in Blades in the Dark is the simple but structured downtime rules. Feels like a perfect fit for this kind of setting. With my current crush on this system, I might go for a BiD hack or combine it with Aliens somehow. But Jovian Chronicles does seem like the kind of setting I'm...

I ran it in my own setting based on a mix of two Heinlein books, Tunnel in the Sky and The Puppet Masters, but with mecha. Fun was had! :)

I played and loved Mekton II back in 1987. :)

Lots to look in on. Thanks guys. I looked up reviews of Expanse and Jovian Chronicles RPGs, they appear too system-heavy for my current Blades in the Dark-influenced tastes. Jovian Chronicles' (JC from now on) setting seems nice, tough I was thinking of a more anarchic entrepreneurial game than...

I've been having a blast playing an Alien RPG campaign. Its mostly been rather low-key, with the environment itself being a major enemy. But I feel that the faster than light aspect of the game isn't really needed. So I was thinking about role-playing in the solar system. I know of two RPG...

Thanks :)

Sorry, I missed this post and I have no idea what "Star-Crossed, using the Dread jenga tower rules" means. Can you point me somewhere I can learn?

I have an older edition of Exalted in my shelf, I should look that up. Thanks!

I like to make characters invested in the setting and adventure, which is hard if I don't know what the game will be about. I extend the same courtesy to my players.

If there is ALWAYS light Everywhere, none of these effects would work. A prism might break light up into various spectra, but that would be overtaken by the ever-present ambient light. Vision is impossible if there is light EVERYWHERE. The idea of light everywhere is absurd, it defies physics...

This fits very well with Moorcock's moral system in the Elric epics, where the elements are Neutral powers of the material world, caught between the cosmic and extra-planar forces of Law and Chaos. This works because Law and Chaos are neither good nor evil. If either Law or Chaos won an ultimate...

I remember now that Paizo has romance/relationship rules in the jade Regent adventure path. This is a specific adventure, and there are a couple of romanceable NPCs, each of which have a score system to manage the relationship based on your actions. Its not a generic set of rules, but a similar...

I basically agree, but I'm wondering what rules are out there. What have designers tried to do?

Inspired by the mention of romance games in TTRPG Genres You Just Can't Get Into -and- Tell Me Why I'm Wrong About X Genre I Don't Like I want to ask about the rules for romance in romance TTRPGs. I have played out romance in games not dedicated to it, in fact it is a common theme. I've read the...

I'm 58. I live in a city with a pretty lively gaming community, but we are divided in different smaller circles of friends that don't often have players moving from one circle to another. We've also had people consciously isolating themselves from a circle when the tastes didn't match. With age...

Not saying you are wrong, just an anecdotal example. We're playing the Free League's Alien game right now, and there is a LOT of this. Most of us are old enough to remember the early 80's, and this is the aesthetic we go for; green text on dark blue screens, space without laser coms, evil...

I am just starting what I hope will be a long-running Blades in the Dark campaign and read this with interest. Not every player around here that tried it loves BitD, the main issue being that it is too abstract. What I am working on improving is the negotiation before each roll; essentially you...

Are there any character sheets for Blades in the Dark that are significantly different from the original one? One of my players have dyslexia and the standard sheet is very hard for them to read. I think the main problem is the boxes for things like Xp and stress becoming a blur.