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Peterhead isn't where I'd go for a nice holiday. It is badly rundown and deprived; the death of the oil industry up north hasn't really done it many favours. I assume you know people there, so they should be able to keep you right. Edinburgh is a great time, but expensive. I like fancy beer so...

Really enjoyed this season! I felt the focus on Sauron’s bastardary was well played - Charles Edwards was gloriously stoic as Celembrimbor and gave the doomed role some decent gravitas. Everyone else got a chance to shine and it managed to bring all the disparate threads together relatively...

Warhammer is a great setting, and a really good system in 4e. Don't be put off because it isn't another D20 system! It is idiosyncratic - like all RPGs - but once you get your head around it, it makes a lot of sense and is easy to work with. It's also important to look at it yourself, as there...

They revised it for the 5th anniversary edition in 2023, which incorporated a few of the softcover expansions and I believe reorganised things. In my head, I recall that they also streamlined some of the rules to be more in line with Heart but I cannot find anything that documents that so it may...

It’s a cracking game, as is it’s Cronenberg-adjacent sibling Heart. Very weird and very wonderful.

I tend to treat the various maps as fallible documents from within the setting rather than definitive and correct. That way, I have some wiggle room for working out time. This is backed up in game as well - Delberz having notably moved nearly every edition and the cartographer responsible...

You are not your hobby.

WFRP 4E continues to be one of my favourite systems, and I am always pleased to see it crop up in a thread. I find it a little odd when it gets called crunchy - particularly in relation to D&D 5E, which we tried to play again after a six month break and found utterly baffling in its complexity...

Read a sniffy review in the Guardian that hinted at a twist, but did so in such an oblique fashion I assumed it was a pretty standard one (particularly considering the genre I thought it was and not knowing the genre it also was). Around the halfway mark, I blurted out "Wait! Is he [the twist]?"...

A fail safe causes tiny technomagical servitors to swarm out from the tower and break down any potential building materials within an appropriate radius. This radius also serves as a way of hooking the players into the realisation something is going on here - local farmers find their sheds...

I am stoked for this. Heart is one of my favourite settings and systems, and the art is absolutely stunning. The concept seems to hit all the beats that I and my players loved - the haunted railway of the Vermissian, the wilful madness of those trying to exploit the Heart for their own ends - so...

I find those little +1d and +effect boosts add more narratively than first glance suggests, although I agree they are less glamorous. The equivalent of a free push every time without stress isn't to be sneezed at, particularly when you can regular push as well, and even more so when you've...

Apologies, it looked like you were continuing the ongoing conversation about the setting in the posts prior to yours. I agree that the onus is moved to the GM - or rather, the game assumes a more 'traditional' setup than BitD where it explicitly lays out who gets the final call for each part of...

I feel this is slightly uncharitable - the setting can be removed with little trouble and in doing so player agency is restored. In fact I would say it is relatively irrelevant, and the weakest part of an otherwise pretty solid product, in marked contrast to Blades. Mercer not running the system...

For more defined powers and roles, particularly in a (grim and gritty) fantasy setting, I believe Band of Blades (https://evilhat.com/product/band-of-blades/) is quite a good shout. I will admit I browsed the rules and decided not to bother because it's a bit more defined than I like for this...

I am a tiny bit piqued - not in a massive way, not in a 'this is a crime against humanity' way - but in a 'I really like a number of the Warhammer systems, and to see them distilled down to "Warhammer" is a bit of an injustice when they are so different' way. I'll live, but I feel it does a...

I think you need to break this down into separate systems, because that is what they are rather than a single ‘Warhammer system’. It’s a bit like saying ‘How do you feel about the Cthulhu system?’ and then lumping Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, Achtung Cthulhu and so on all together...

No harder than learning a new board game or video game or any other pastime. I’m a slave to novelty though, so I actually enjoy trying new stuff and so do the people I play with, so it’s not a massive imposition.

I got my copy yesterday, and am so far glad I ordered it. It’s a pretty book, about twice the size (not page count) of Blades in the Dark but still pretty compact. I was a bit wary of the system initially, but I think it does enough to differentiate itself from Blades and has some nifty ideas...

I don't think D&D does try to be a little bit of everything. It's good at some things, it's awful at other things, but it is only ever D&D. I think it is more that because it is the 800 pound gorilla of the RPG scene, people try to crowbar everything into it. It's commercially viable. It's...