What gaming stuff are you reading?
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Gringnr
Ulthal
Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:44 pm Posts: 507
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DC Universe. It was West End Games' foray into supers, using the D6 Legend system (a variant of their D6 system that counts successes, instead of adding totals, using pools of six-sided dice). Short-lived, and very polarizing, it is nonetheless interesting, with some high quality supplements.
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Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:08 pm |
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Gringnr
Ulthal
Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:44 pm Posts: 507
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Traveller Hero - I don't play Hero System games (no real reason), but this is the only iteration of Traveller that I don't really have. So, I bought the CD-Rom.
Squadron UK - an updated/revised version of Golden Heroes. Written both to avoid Games Workshop's copyright, but also to implement changes that author Simon Burley says he would have made anyway. I have been playng Golden Heroes with my nephews for a year or so now. I always felt kind of bad for Burley, because the game he will always be remembered for is one he can't get paid for (although he has been teasing that that's perhaps going to change). He also insists that SqUK is the better game, being written with decades more design experience under his belt.
My first impression is favorable, but somewhat mixed. There is a skill system added (a plus), and many options to incorporate intentional design elements into the still-mostly-random character generation (another plus). Golden Heroes' signature four-panel combat rounds are gone (which I do not like), but combats have become faster and less predictable.
The original Golden Heroes is, in my experience, a game that on paper does not give a true sense of how it plays. That is to say only in playing it do you gain an appreciation for just how clever and well-balanced it is. SqUK may be the same, so I will reserve final judgement until I have played it. But on first reading, it retains enough of the original's flavor, while adding new innovations, that I am eager to try it out.
Squadron UK is available for purchase at drivethrurpg. There is a book of adventures called Legacy (an updating of EVERY GH module/magazine adventure) in the works.
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Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:07 pm |
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dachda
Lore Drake
Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:00 am Posts: 1525 Location: Topsham, Maine
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Adventurers Backpack, of course!
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Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:05 am |
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Gringnr
Ulthal
Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:44 pm Posts: 507
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Prime Directive from Task Force Games. It seems that most people judged it on how good of a Star Trek game it was, rather than on how good of a game it was in general. Which is a shame, because the core system is solid.
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Wed Oct 17, 2018 12:29 am |
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Rhuvein
Cleric of Zagyg
Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 7:00 am Posts: 10719 Location: Somewhere in Time
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I've been reading the 5e PH in preparation for an upcoming online game to be run by Rigon.
So far, I like what I'm seeing, but the game will be the real test of how well things work.
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth
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Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:57 pm |
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Zudrak
Lore Drake
Joined: Wed May 03, 2006 7:00 am Posts: 1377 Location: Audubon, NJ
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Art & Arcana, Basic Fantasy RPG (core rulebook and others), Moldvay Basic Rulebook, Marsh/Cook Expert Rulebook, some gaming material I have edited/am editing for ThrowiGames.
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"Knowledge, logic, reason, and common sense serve better than a dozen rule books."
"Rules not understood should have appropriate questions directed to the publisher; disputes with the Dungeon Master are another matter entirely. THE REFEREE IS THE FINAL ARBITER OF ALL AFFAIRS OF HIS OR HER CAMPAIGN." -- E. Gary Gygax
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Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:32 pm |
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serleran
Mogrl
Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:00 am Posts: 13789
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Career Compendium for Warhammer FRP 2nd edition.
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Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:55 pm |
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