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Exciting news. I wonder if the playtest classes are more or less finalized now or if there will be any further playtest revisions? Most of them were pretty solid but the Assassin felt like it needed more time to bake.

Love the terrain!!

I’ve actually never played any PbTA games, but the concept seems interesting! I’d be curious to hear how it ends up working.

With most of the posters here where I use whatever crit mechanics the system calls for. I always liked D&D 4e’s nat-20 crit rule where you simply took the maximum damage you could possibly roll. It eliminated the possibility of feel-bad Crits that you can get in double dice systems if you roll...

Aha, good to know! My memory of it is pretty faded! We must’ve just been bad at making our characters then 😂 I just remember Mechwarrior 2e being the ultimate cheeseburger!

What if you had a “buy in” mechanic with your magical flux? Like a character could gamble with flux in exchange for some benefit, such as a reroll on attack or damage or an enemy saving throw, but if they do there’s a percentage chance based on the spell’s level of it going haywire. That way you...

Funny! I’ve played that game so many times through over the years and never caught it Where is that sneaksie hobbit?

Yeah, I can’t really go with this theory both because it makes the Empire kiss that much ickier, and I don’t think Leia’s reaction in Jedi to Luke telling her about Vader and their family relationship would have been so shocking and troubling. It’s the only time in the trilogy that brings her to...

The first edition! Cool! I last played it in the early 90’s so my memory isn’t super great with it. It didn’t have ways to totally cheese characters like 2nd edition had, though I feel like it was easy to nerf characters during creation, so you may want to hand out extra starting points if...

Yeah sounds like you had a bad experience. You must’ve been playing MechWarrior 2nd edition, which had the infamous “natural aptitude” roll 3d6 nonsense. It was also pretty trivial to make a starting character with a “1” gunnery or even 0. I did like the way it tied health into the pilot...

I think someone mentioned it above, but that’s how I like to watch the Bond films myself. They almost lent credence to this theory when they wanted cast Sean Connery as a retired agent in Skyfall (in the final standoff in the mansion).

I found this question hard to answer, but in this moment of time here’s what I have: 1 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This has everything I want from a science fiction movie. I will watch this anytime it’s on. Even though Spock’s sacrifice is undone in the next movie, the final scene of...

On Ghostfire Gaming’s site they’ve got the pdf for their Drakkenheim Campaign Frame if anyone is curious how they’re adapting Fear/Hope mechanics into their setting. They’ve added a “Mutation” score that compliments the base system in a very eldritch horror fashion.

@RenleyRenfield I’ll try to answer some of your questions about a mixed campaign here. I’ve run several campaigns that were split between MechWarrior (the RPG) and BattleTech (TT mini’s). I’m happy to share my experiences: I’ve played 3 of the 4 Mechwarrior editions (1st, 2nd, and Destiny…...

I like both of these ideas! I think I’ll try them out!

I think we must have less patience in our games, maybe because we don’t get to play so often. Even a couple SRM-6’s makes us squirm these days, though we have joked about playing all SRM-carriers before.

I thought What We Do In the Shadows ended well. I was sad to see it go, but I’m glad they decided to finish the series before it got too long in the tooth (pun probably intended).

I once tried making Pulse Lasers behave like you described (along with machine guns, hit for 1 dmg in 3 locations), but in the end we shelved it since it slowed things down even more, and we just kind of accepted that BattleTech has a lot of “reality-bending” quirks that just come with the game.

I agree, I think there’s room for humour in Trek, but I don’t want to see something approaching Lower Decks turned into a film. I thought the filmmakers had a good balance of fun, action, and drama with Homecoming. Hmmm… the thought they could make their Trek movie too silly now has me a little...

Cautiously optimistic with them at the helm! I like that they seem to be introducing new characters too!