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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 5230399" data-attributes="member: 3297">Hmmm... Aren't there Burst Templates that are supposed to be printed to a certain scale (based on inches IIRC)?Other than this "sanity" mechanic, how good is the Realms of Cthulhu book? This is one of the options I'm exploring for a sourcebook purchase.Which is great; this means I'll be able to use it for multiple genres. Which I really like.Which is great - I like having varied options at game start, and I like D&D levels 3-8 better than levels 1-2 or 9+ anyway, so if its similar in play to low-mid-level fantasy this will fit right in with my preferences.This might not work very well for my hypothetical Isle of Dread/Lost game, though, of course, things could be changed a bit to allow this. For other settings this is just perfect - just think about running a whole gang in a post-apocalyptic game! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />Are the copies being sold by Amazon or Take 2 of the third printing, or the second one?What are the mind-twists in these mechanics? I understand that you can get enemies to be Shaken by various tricks, then you just need a Shaken hit to get them wounded, is that the twist?I like it better that way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Hmmm... Seems like I'll have to print the Combat Survival Sheet for the player(s)... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Does the latest Acrobat Reader support this?---Anyhow, I'm leaning more and more towards buying the Explorer's Edition and, possibly, one supplement; after all, with the core book costing a mere 10$ and shipping to me might cost almost as much, it might be worthwhile to add one additional book for no real increase in shipping cost.Regarding the supplements, I'm undecided between Realms of Cthulhu, Hellfrost and the Fantasy Supplement; which is, in your opinion, more interesting to pick up?Another question I have is about combat: how well does a hero (or a small group of heroes) fare against a larger group of (non-Wildcard) mooks? Do things go similarly to Conan mowing through a whole gang of lesser combatants, or will a gang of mooks be able to gang up on a hero and overrun him/her?How well do tactics (cover, ambush and so on) work well under the SW rules?And how interesting/cool/fun combat is? A problem I am having with BFRPG (which is a great ruleset, IMHO) is that magic is ULTRA-COOL (especially with creative players) but ordinary combat isn't that interesting.</blockquote>

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