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For those interested in Acquisitions Inc, it's worth noting that the excellent digital game Card Hunter has just done a crossover expansion with those guys: http://www.cardhunter.com/2016/04/acquisitions-incorporated-opens-its-cardhuntria-office/ For the uninitiated: Card Hunter is a tactical...

That actually sounds pretty great.

Oh, I wasn't saying it will work *better*. It's totally a matter of taste. Burning Wheel is a very different game to any version of D&D, so it depends what you're looking for. I was just saying that it could be done, and that it wouldn't be that difficult. This conversation has inspired me to...

Well sure there's a bit of work on the character creation side. I didn't say it would be NO work =) The easy way to deal with that is to ask the players for character concepts first, and then just create lifepaths to assist them getting there. There's guidelines in the Monster Burner (which...

They've changed it so that all digital stretch goals come with the $30 level (or higher). Because someone asked them nicely.

Actually a lot of that stuff will be covered by the Codex (the book being Kickstarted), which is an update of a bunch of content from the Magic, Monster and Adventure Burners from the previous edition. Rat men are in there (as a playable race, even). There's a range of different magic systems...

That would be a pretty straightforward adaptation. I look forward to reading about your campaign =)

No love for Burning Wheel in the comments? Consider that rectified. A story engine like no other. I may be running D&D right now, but BW is the only game where I'll buy every release without a second thought.

Phoenix: Dawn Command is looking interesting.

You've lost some zeroes there. In fact Canadians and Americans get a higher percentage than us, although we come in third when adjusted for population (see my post a few pages ago).

Because I was interested, I adjusted the top 10 visitor country-of-origin list for population. Here's how it looks (number is visitors per 1,000,000 population): Canada (1622) US (1357) Australia (1093) UK (679) Netherlands (531) Italy (211) Germany (201) Spain (143) France (122) Brazil (72)

Thanks! I'd missed the DMG reference. So much cross-referencing for a single situation! Would have been nice for the adventure to mention that some of the required rules were in there.

Here's a question I haven't seen answered yet: how much food does a foraging PC turn up? The text (p. 20) gives a difficulty for foraging - and references the PHB rules to determine how much food and water each person needs - but it doesn't give any indication of how much they should find. I...

I think it's a great idea.

Where have all the comments gone? The 3E ranger was one of the big points of complaint that led to 3.5. It got to the point where there was a site dedicated to designing alternative ranger rules, called The Ranger Project. I know, because I made it =)

Another screenwriting guideline: start as near to the action as you can - preferably in it.

It's similar to the screenwriting rule that the audience will allow you one coincidence or contrivance at the very beginning to launch your narrative, but that after that everything needs to follow in some kind of reasonable, logical fashion.

Seems like a pretty balanced review. I'll still be buying and running it, but it's good to be forewarned that extra prep might be required. The saving grace of our game is that we only play about 2.5 hours at a time, so it's usually not too difficult to figure out what's going to happen in the...

Cheers, that's what I was after! We'll be starting before the adventurer's guide comes out, so that won't be relevant to begin with.

Are there any character guidelines or backgrounds or anything of the sort? I won't be able to get the book for a couple of weeks, but I was thinking of getting character creation done in the meantime.