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Games I've run, as a forever DM. Bold are games I've been a player as well as DM: D&D 3.5 D&D 4e D&D 5e Pathfinder 1e Urban Shadows 1e Kult: Divinity Lost Band of Blades Shadow of the Demon Lord RIFTS Numenera Cypher System (sans Numenera) FATE Core FATE Accelerated Pugmire Traveller Shadowrun*...

I grew up a metalhead. But as I've gotten older, my tastes have evolved. Fortunately, my favorite group has evolved as well. Katatonia started off in the Swedish Death metal scene with albums like Dance of December Souls and Brave Murder Day. However, after the singer Jonas Renkse shredded his...

My group and I had a long talk after a dumb survey of "What Vampire clan do you belong to?" that lead to us deciding to finally make the leap away from Vt:R2e to V5. I had the Corebook already, because I like to keep abreast of the World of Darkness. But my group decided to gift me the Anarch...

Speaking strictly from a compatibility standpoint, nWoD could handle crossovers well enough. CoD seemed to bake some degree of expectation of conflict between the supernatural splats in. For example, the "Clash of Wills" concept in V:tR 1e was not in W:tF 1e, that I could find. However, Clash of...

I lurk here, mostly. But occasionally I'll speak up. Especially for CoD. I've been the forever Storyteller for nWoD/CoD for over a decade now, and I have an abiding love of the system. It has it's quirks, sure. Social Maneuvering and Investigation rules I usually skip over in favor of Roleplay...

I've been looking forward to The Contagion Chronicle finally releasing for a while. And while I'm not necessarily disappointed, I do wish more could have been done with it. Though I cannot realistically quantify what that more is. I enjoy it for what it is, and I got Dark Eras as it's been on...

Block by Bloody Block is good. I use it for my Hunter games or Crossover games, generally. It streamlines districts and is more gameable in the sense that there is more mechanical reward to taking over districts. I personally think that the best thing about Block By Bloody Block is the Rapport...

A few months ago, I finally got my hands on Damnation City for Vampire: The Requiem. That book, and Block by Bloody Block have long been my go-to in PDF format for building out cities, defining territories, and making an open-sandbox Vampire or Hunter game feel lived in and real. Getting my...

I usually am running several PDFs on my PC while I'm running a session. I store them, all organized by system and setting, on my PC and my Kindle Fire. If I'm having a slow day at work, I'll pull down a hard copy to read it. But if I'm out on the couch while the fiance plays a VG or is watching...

Vampire: The Masquerade, Pretty much every edition up to V5 holds a special nostalgia for me. Other than that, every nWod (1st Edition) to Chronicles of Darkness (2nd) Mongoose Traveller 1 & 2 - Even though I do not feel their differences are overwhelming.

If you as the GM have one idea of how things (Plot, Stories, narrative, whatever's happening in the background) are going to go, and the players spitball something better accidentally, feel free to substitute. "Just as planned."

I knew I found a place I belonged.

Ever since I saw it, I knew my life would not be complete till I owned it. While I do not have it just yet, it is in the mail and on it's way to it's new home. This item being the Dallas Television Roleplaying Game.

I have one bookcase by my desk that is dedicated to my TTRPGs. I primarily use PDFs, because I run my games mostly online with Maptool and Discord. I mostly organize by use, or by what I'm reading at the time. Top of the shelf tends to be things I enjoy but my group doesn't play often. Middle...

Hey, awesome. While I live in OH with my fiance, my entire family lives in either Port Neches, Beaumont, Orange, or Houston. Man, Beaumont has the best gaming store. The Book Stan, which is just this lovely warehouse of comics, miniatures, and boxes and boxes of RPG books. I have to make at...