I am putting together a homebrew game for my friends and family, and maybe for running play-by-post here. Rules are a mashup of heavily simplified/streamlined PF1/5e, Rogue Genius' Talented supplements, and Dreamscarred Press' entire catalog. Setting is a mashup of Spelljammer, the...
So it got brought up in that Star Wars thread, but Basic Action Game is doing a Kickstarter for a collected print edition of all their Intriguing Options products for Honor + Intrigue. Well, color me honored and intrigued... because I'm a huge fan of the original Barbarians of Lemuria and I own...
A thing I am doing, primarily for my (wife's) sister-in-law who is salivating for some "classic D&D". After some delicate unpacking, it's revealed that this doesn't mean "old school" D&D so much as it means any form of D&D that isn't trying to pretend that it's something else-- so, for instance...
Warrior's Dreams
Summary: Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game, West Marches Style, in a living world built by the players, Tuesdays from 1800 to 2200 (US Mountain Time)
System: Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game 20th Anniversary Edition
Venue: roll20 (game link) for VTT/session text...
The current discussion on the "no politics" rule has actually led me to believe that I can get away with this... so here we go.
First, I want to make my intentions as clear as possible: I am not here to shit on Oriental Adventures. I own the AD&D and 3.0 versions of Oriental Adventures in...
Continuing from this thread; starting a new thread because I've got a strong working title and a clearer picture of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Sagas of the Galaxy Rangers will be a space fantasy game/setting deeply in D&D tradition, planetary romance and space opera, and Japanese RPGs and...
So, I have been occupying myself recently with the idea of a Humanity Fuck Yeah / Heavy Metal styled space fantasy. Action sci-fi, occult horror, biblical angels, DOOM meets Star Wars kinda affair. Gotta admit, I find myself loving the idea of this stuff more than I love actually consuming it...
I am not a reasonable man. This is known. I do not like reasonable things-- I like, specifically, unreasonable things. I like doing whatever I am told should not be done-- I want to write things that people tell me don't make sense, I want to cook food that people say doesn't go together.
At...
I want to run a Star Wars game using the delightful SW5e conversion rules. Catch is... I want to do Star Wars as a genre, with its themes and overall feel, while discarding all but the loosest interpretations of the canon.
A whole hell of a lot of this remix is going to be done round-robin...
So, one of my favorite TV series ever-- but, y'know, sci-fi on Fox-- and ever since I first watched Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles I've dreamed of running a game based on the premise of human resistance fighters from the future preparing for, and trying to avert, the war against SKYNET...
So I mentioned in the "What are you up to?" thread that I'd found an OGL retroclone of the original World of Darkness rules, and that I thought I could bootstrap that into a functional (and marketable) clone of Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game. (Obviously, I have no intention of actually...
I'm told that while the latter is a loving homage to the former, they are not actually that similar, mechanically... and the latter, of course, does not have the former's alien species.
Could someone who owns both enlighten me as to what the differences are, as a sort of top-level breakdown?
Since I am such a very ambitious slacker, failing to make progress on two projects isn't enough for me-- so now, I am failing to make progress on a third.
I've been hanging out on r/HFY (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) a lot lately, and playing Jupiter Hell (the sequel to Doom the Roguelike) a lot...
I'm starting a new play-by-post game-- eXiles style superheroics using the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying rules, modified for the adventure format.
Players are allowed to play an "alternate universe" version of (almost) any canonical Marvel character, hero or villain, who is "recruited" by a...
Inspired by the brief digression from the topic in On the Constant Overestimation of Animals, I think I should like to give a brief primer in the mechanics of firearms for people who know less on this subject than I do. I will note that I'm more of a Bard than a Gunslinger or Artificer, so I...
In order to make the perfect meat sauce, we must start with the perfect meat:
Spam. Three cans, run through the cheese grater. This is even more fun than it sounds.
Two cans of diced tomatoes and green chilies, a heaping tablespoon of minced garlic, and a generous splash of red wine...
https://thepower-con.com/2020/08/panel-schedule/
Well, Cam Banks leading the panel tells me it's going to be a Cortex game-- sorry, for any He-Man fans who don't like the system-- so I'm really excited to see where they go with this.
I remember when I was trying really hard to get this...
Sometime either this weekend (01-02 AUG) or next weekend, I'm planning a livestream double feature showing of two movies that have been foundational to my aesthetic style and my life's work: Super Mario Bros and Masters of the Universe.
Anyone from the Pub who'd like to join us is invited...
Little bit of background, I got started with Dungeons & Dragons with AD&D First Edition in 1993. (Yes, First Edition.) By the time I became aware that Second Edition was a thing, Player's Option was also a thing and I fell in love with it immediately. Player's Option, to this day, is still my...
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