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Since I wanted a second set of the cards, I decided to just get another Core set since it’s more economical. Then I’ll have a second book I can loan out or pass around the table.

I was initially excited to back this, but that price point for all 9 packs really gave me pause. I feel like I would be better off buying more core sets and giving the extra books to my players. The individual boxes aren’t bad as a price point, considering you get the rules pdf with it, but...

My understanding of Lancer is you are space robot pilots battling alien Kaiju. Kind of in the vein of Voltron, maybe with a dash of Pacific Rim? But I haven’t played it myself. I’ve read the combat is very 4e inspired, but the non-mecha parts are a pretty straight forward d20+mod to make...

This is one of those games I really want to get and run, but I fear it’d go badly since I know I’m the only mecha/Kaiju nut in my gaming circles. 😅

Have you checked out Daggerheart? I seem to recall from your past posts that you had some 4e fans in the group, but that it was too much work for you and some of the other players. For me, Daggerheart gives me the dynamic combat thrills I liked from 4e but with a fraction of the game complexity...

There’s a game from the 90’s called Waste World which was kind of marketed as Post-Apoc meets 40k. (Not that it sounds like you’re looking for that, but someone out there might find it interesting).

There’s Darwin’s World, which has quite a few books out there for 3e era d20 and Savage Worlds. And there is Broken Earth which is a single book for Savage Worlds, but which focuses only on the Great Lakes area and gives a lot of story and detail.

In the 90’s I used to run big BattleTech convention games. A lot of the players had never actually used vehicles in their games, so I always enjoyed throwing them for a loop with tanks like the Schrek (or Blake forbid when the Alacorn game out!)

Played the second session of my story-based BattleTech campaign (loosely based on the old video game, Crescent Hawks Revenge). We decided to try all of the playtest rules. This group had both brand new players and vets of the game, which will be nice for the different perspectives. Side shots...

As I’ve been going through Daggerheart I keep thinking it has the bones of a pretty solid super hero engine, with the right new classes and domains (though the Midnight Domain already screams Batman to me). Here’s a couple secret id experiences off the top of my head: Tony Stark: “Genius...

Planescape is my favorite, particularly centered around Sigil with its “philosophers with clubs” and any door could take you to a place either mundane or insane. It also gives me the advantage of “checking” up on Primes like Forgotten Realms from time to time.

huh, what’s wrong with a Hunchback… oh… ohh. You seem to be missing a head there 🤯

Yes! As we were diving into Daggerheart we were actually asking “How would you do genasi, maybe hybrid x and y?” And then we saw elemental ancestries right there on the website! We also decided you could essentially make a Slaad with hybrid Ribber and Infernis. We’re still noodling on how Gith...

I think we’ll start a new campaign. But we did do some theory crafting how we would convert older characters as we were learning character creation.

Answering the original question: what do I plan to do? Now that I finally got my book and have done some playtesting, I’m planning to convert my main group over. We’ve been playing in a Planescape campaign for almost 15 years; different characters but the setting itself evolves with each game...

Eberron had always been an interesting setting to read about but it just never pulled me in as a game setting. But I still wanted to give it the ol’ college try. I ran one of the premade adventures set in Sharn for our group to get a taste of it. It was a good little murder mystery one shot...

My eyes scanned over the thread title and read: 2024: How does sleep deprivation work? And my reply would have been, “Better than most years!” 😝

yes, Megamek is pretty great at doing straight battles. I haven’t tried it for anything else. I use roll20 when I want to run story heavy BattleTech campaigns as a GM. Then I can throw surprises and story beats at my players (suddenly, there were air strikes! Or reinforcements are here, or...

I have a pro Roll20 account, so I have a custom BattleTech sheet that I discovered some years ago. The original source of that sheet is gone now unfortunately. DM me if you want to see.

There was a lot I enjoyed this season, but things felt a bit rushed toward the end.