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I first saw something like this in the board game Crystal Clans - whenever you use an action, the initiative tracker moved its cost towards your opponent's side. When it crossed over, it became your opponent's turn. It's an interesting idea but the game never really seemed to make it worthwhile to d...

https://frialigan.se/en/news/#/pressreleases/free-league-signs-deal-to-publish-rpgs-in-tolkiens-middle-earth-2979811 From my understanding, the book was written through a secondary company, and only kinda published by Cubicle7, so the second edition will be made, just by Free League Publishing. They...

this is never going to displace Spirit Island from my game bag (which has gotten rid of Arkham Horror to me) I like Spirit Island a lot , and replacing Arkham Horror is pretty reasonable. It's a strong co-op game with a lot of dials to make the game easier or harder but the setup and play times are...

Skies of axia will last about 3 sessions, and is best with the same 4 players currently. So its not going to fill that gap youre looking for currently - this is never going to displace Spirit Island from my game bag (which has gotten rid of Arkham Horror to me).. But it will provide a quick alternat...

That review is bullshit and i wouldnt listen to anything in it. Ive run the first campaign twice. The "optional stuff" in the campaign is literally just things listed under a "hard mode" header. Before you play, decide if you want to do.hard mode or not. Done. The designer has al...

Why did you use PBTA as the baseline engine, instead of Shadowrun 4 or GUMSHOE or whatever? I like GUMSHOE a lot, but it's pretty bad when it comes to actual action stuff. I think it's better for more modern-day games, where you have a wild variety of investigation techniques, too. I can't justify ...

Late last year, I finished work on Beneath a Cursed Moon - my RPG about monster hunting in a gothic fantasy setting. It pulls inspirations from Castlevania, Bloodborne, The Mummy (1999), Dracula, Hellboy, Disney’s Gargoyles, and you’ll find some After Sundown ideas running through it, too. The playe...

I've started up a Tabletop RPG Discord Server - Discord is kind of like Skype, but with a browser or downloadable version, and overall just seeming better quality and better suited to more public/IRC style chatrooms. It can be found here: https://discordapp.com/invite/PR7xsEf I'm hoping to keep thin...

The 40K card game, Call of Cthulhu LCG, and Star Wars LCG (all made by Fantasy Flight) have locations you fight over, although for the latter two locations are sort of temporary affairs. PC games Spectromancer and Soulforge have lane-based combat, but relatively little moving. The physical version o...

Just want to acknowledge that I've read this, and I appreciate the huge amount of comments. It'll take me some time to digest them and find time to tinker on the game. The mechanics stuff - I'm going to have to think on that a bit, chew it over, and see if I can't figure out a better way to organize...

Frank- I made my comment because the sexist stuff is out of line, esecially considering the conversation topic. And when some of the people in question you're talking about are actually mentally disabled throwing "retarded" around as an insult doesn't really help. It is particularly tone-d...

First, can we not devolve into sexist and ableist comments here, at least when discussing this? Seriously, it's entirely uncalled for. Second, as much as I greatly dislike a lot of people who are particiating in thsi discussion and think their games are shit, they are pretty much right about the har...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50652244/Highwinds%20v0.1.pdf I've completed v0.1 of Highwinds, after way, way too long mulling over it. Highwinds is a space opera RPG that's really more of fantasy with spaceships - there's magic, and guns, and cool humanoid aliens. It's based off of the Feng Sh...

Please please please tell me that the chair on the dragonfly turtle is a man-sized chair, and not a pixie-sized one.

The point is that no matter what you call people who are not bigots, bigots will turn in it into a pejorative, and stupid idiots like Laertes will buy it and help them. You, idiot. Stop talking about how Social Justice Warriors embarrass you. That is complete bullshit made up by bigots. Just like M...

tumblr's gotten a look at the Basic Rules' statement on "your character's gender/sex/orientation are entirely up to you" and... ugh. 5E will be popular purely for that. It's the only good thing I've seen so far from 5e, and knowing the sort of person who posts on tumblr about that, it wil...

Got my books in today, thank you!

Hint: If Occluded Sun, the guy who thinks that the slave-owning times of the US had more freedom than current times, agrees with you on what's racist or not, you may have a problem.

There's a series of Flash RPGs that are actually pretty good, but I can't remember the name. The first one or two were just a connected series of RPG battles (literally, you don't even have the wander-around-talking-to-NPCs aspect), but the next one is more of a traditional RPG. You're thinking of ...

I actually thought shadzar, as a person, could not surprise me.

I didn't actually expect him to become that disgusting, but I shouldn't be surprised, as it kinda goes with being a grognard, huh?

"Whenever it comes up" seems essentially the same as "Unlimited" to me, but then, I'm not a complete fucking moron apparently.

4. Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first edition. I'd call chargen a war crime, but that would be unduly harsh to many infamous war criminals. I'd love to hear you talk sometimes about RPGs everyone has heard about but nobody actually has but old-timers, like that, or whatever one about al...

In general I'm more concerned that people think "social justice warrior" is a useful pejorative than I am by the idea that some people make dumb, overzealous arguments on the internet. This, a thousand times. Most of the people I've found who use it as an insult have no problem being frie...

Netrunner feels like it was a card game made in a universe where Magic never existed. While for literally every other game you can use some parallels to magic - you can't for netrunner.

The Professor isn't too great - but his style is generally grab 1x a bunch of different neat programs, and use search and rescursion (test run, clone chip, self-modifying code) to find the exact program they need. Here's an example professor decklist: http://stimhack.com/winning-decklists-store-cham...