What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Just got the Wave 1 physical products for the Cosmere RPG Kickstarter yesterday, extremely satisfied with the physical quality and the value: Wave 2 next year will have three more chunky hardcovers in a slipcase, another floppy World Intro booklet, and a parcel of PDFs.
The dice are very nice, and I didn't even get the premium dice. Love the card stock tokens.
The dice are very nice, and I didn't even get the premium dice. Love the card stock tokens.
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
They really pulled no punches here these are some of the most gorgeous RPG books I've ever seen, design and art wise.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I bought their Jane Austen-inspired adventure. It's not reinventing the adventure or anything, but very competently done and does a good job of blending the writer's tone with a standard D&D adventure. I'd be interested to hear what you end up thinking about this one.
DragonLancer
Hero
Agreed. It's not a groundbreaking adventure but for something different to drop into one of my two current campaigns, it'll make a nice change of pace.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I just picked up Far Distant Future Publishing's new PWYW PF1 product, Marvelous Monsters: Living Pit (affiliate link), and I'm quite pleased with it.
I'm sure that by now, people are getting tired of hearing me fanboy out over FDFP's releases, to which all I can say is that I'll stop being so enthusiastic when they stop putting out good material. If past experience is anything to go by, that probably won't happen for a long time (or, hopefully, ever).
In this case, what we have is one of those products which, after you read it, you sit back and think "why didn't anyone do this before now?" Because the titular monster—which is quite obviously a sarlacc with the serial number filed off—is one that seems to lend itself toward gamification. In this case, I suspect that I'm overlooking some other takes on this same creature; my guess is that those moved a bit further from their inspiration in an attempt to put their own spin on things. But here, the homage looms large indeed.
I'll note that, unlike most monsters in PF1, the living pit has a speed of 0 feet, which along with its Itelligence score of 1 means that enterprising PCs can easily kill the thing from outside the range of its tentacles. But the product notes that this creature is as much a location-based hazard as it is a monster, and if some PCs are ambushed by it or are pushed into it (say, by a local crime boss from his floating barge), then simply escaping it should be worth experience points as if they defeated it.
Despite not being a fan of much (or virtually anything) of what Star Wars has done in the last few years, this call back to a classic creature was enough to put a smile on my face, and given that the purchase price for this product is entirely voluntary, I remain pleased with what FDFP is doing.
I'm sure that by now, people are getting tired of hearing me fanboy out over FDFP's releases, to which all I can say is that I'll stop being so enthusiastic when they stop putting out good material. If past experience is anything to go by, that probably won't happen for a long time (or, hopefully, ever).
In this case, what we have is one of those products which, after you read it, you sit back and think "why didn't anyone do this before now?" Because the titular monster—which is quite obviously a sarlacc with the serial number filed off—is one that seems to lend itself toward gamification. In this case, I suspect that I'm overlooking some other takes on this same creature; my guess is that those moved a bit further from their inspiration in an attempt to put their own spin on things. But here, the homage looms large indeed.
I'll note that, unlike most monsters in PF1, the living pit has a speed of 0 feet, which along with its Itelligence score of 1 means that enterprising PCs can easily kill the thing from outside the range of its tentacles. But the product notes that this creature is as much a location-based hazard as it is a monster, and if some PCs are ambushed by it or are pushed into it (say, by a local crime boss from his floating barge), then simply escaping it should be worth experience points as if they defeated it.
Despite not being a fan of much (or virtually anything) of what Star Wars has done in the last few years, this call back to a classic creature was enough to put a smile on my face, and given that the purchase price for this product is entirely voluntary, I remain pleased with what FDFP is doing.
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Scars Unseen
Hero
Technically Cortex Prime, but it's been in the mail since mid-September.
Got my Heroes/Adventures of Forgotten Realms books today. Not sure if they were sold before street date or not, but they look GOOD. First chapter of Adventures in FR is great - love the 1 page adventure framework.
