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if you don’t mind doing some conversion, The Chronicles of Darkness books had slightly more combat systems, as I recall (like static values for Defense and various keyworded Conditions). Nothing quite what you’re looking for in terms of tactical gridded combat, though. If you have the time and...

Wow that’s very cool! Many, many years ago some friends and I threw together a very primitive MtG rpg together as a lark. It was similar to Ars Magicka in that you had one mage and 1 retainer, and to cast spells you played a very accelerated version of the card game. I’m sure their version...

Er, yes. I should have been more clear. I meant in terms of finding similar enough powers and capabilities. Using the families as presented really didn’t match up that closely to the Fae; so I expect we’d need to do some heavy re-writing there if we I really were going to move forward on that...

Thanks for all the insights @The-Magic-Sword ! That was very helpful! Venators sound like they will be an interesting take on the Hunter archetype. If my group does decide to make the switch to Curseborne with our current campaign I’ll probably wind up customizing the Hunter characters, but...

I think I’ll have to see it in play, but I’m not sure I love the damage system where it seems like you normally inflict 1 damage with possibility of boosting it to 2. It reads like combat will be a slow slugfest with combatants chipping away at health. I get that weapon tags and tricks add some...

Seems to come with the territory of quasi-gothic punk. The biggest eye roller for me is using their own acronym for NPCs. C’mon folks, not only does it take me out of the reading because I’m trying to remember what an SGC is, but I’m pretty sure the NPC-crewed ship sailed back in 80s, if not the...

I went ahead and grabbed to core book. It definitely has the WoD/CoD vibe in the writing and style, though sometimes I want the book to stop with the edgy first person narrative and just give me the meat and potatoes of the rules. Our group is going to take a look at the game and see if we want...

I’d been kind of on the fence about Curseborne, but now I’m thinking about checking it out. I probably won’t switch mid campaign from my Frankensteinian V5 game (the real monster!), but it sounds like it could be a much more elegant solution to the type of urban-goth games we like!

Thank you for the write up! I’m currently co-running a Changeling/Hunter/Mage campaign that also finds them running afoul of local vampire politics. We’re using a hack-job of the V5 engine because we like it more than the older editions, but it’s a lot of work rewriting powers and abilities to...

I felt like a lot of the World of Darkness games had a lot of examples of cool ideas on the story side, but then when it came time to play the mechanics they were often overly convoluted or confusingly written. And not to pick on White Wolf too much, but I remember trying to get into Exalted...

Perhaps the follow-up poll should be, excluding Vimes*, who is your favourite Discworld character? * because otherwise he’d clearly win all the votes

I found this hard to choose. I went with Thud, but I was surprised there were no votes for Thief of Time as that’s one of my runner ups. I have much fondness for Monstrous Regiment and Small Gods (which I use as much of the basis of how deities work in my fantasy RPGs). And while I don’t think...

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I have a soft spot for Lair of the Minotaur, it being one of the first I played. I didn’t have access to many of the adventures when I was young and first encountered Eamon, but it inspired me to learn Basic on the Apple ][ so I could make my own. Only many years later did I get to play any of...

Wow - Eamon inspired! Now this really takes me back!

I went ahead and got IC (already purchased Mayhem), and I have to agree. I think Menagerie of Mayhem adds more (what I’d call) traditional fantasy creatures, while IC gets a lot more creative and even throws in some themed Environments. Mayhem is less expensive, but IC has about 3x the content...

I am left wondering, will Josh Gad return in Avengers: Doomsday?

A lot of Season 2 felt like: “Stay tuned for next season! In the meantime, have some Deathclaws!” I want to like Norm and was hoping he’d uncover more clues about FEV, but at this point I wouldn’t miss him much if he were written off the show.

I’m usually game to try something at least once, but some of the geek media I did try and bounce off of are: Collectible card games. I don’t like purchasing anything that’s randomized, and the surrounding culture is too competitive for my tastes. I also had a former friend who, years ago, got...

Oh yes! I mean, there has to be a few dozen (or hundred) more of them, right? By the end of BG2 I remember asking myself, Are we sure Bhaal was the god of murder??