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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Thanks for the detailed response. It definitely sounds multifaceted as to why it didn't take off further. I wasn't aware of a Fallout connection to the tabletop rpg (unlike with say Warcraft and Warhammer). As with Cyberpunk and Michael Pondsmith, I can respect an rpg developer for wanting to stay true to his or her vision and "just" earn alot of money but not necessarily "all" the possible money.

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Cyberpunk is another rpg I really enjoy. I've been playing 2020, and you can feel the love through the rough bits.

‘What Lorgar’s fanatics have not seen is that these gods are nothing compared to the power and the majesty of the Machine-God. Already, members of our growing cult are using the grace of the Omnissiah – the true Omnissiah, not Terra’s false prophet – to harness the might of the warp. Geller fields, warp missiles, void shields, all these things you are familiar with. But their underlying principles can be turned to so much more. Through novel exploitations of these technologies we will gain mastery first over the energies of the empyrean, then over the lesser entities, until finally the very gods themselves will bend the knee and recognise the supremacy of the Machine-God"
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MN (Currently in WY)

Unrelated, can someone recommend me a word based or diceless RPG?

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 TheBestBucketHead wrote:
Cyberpunk is another rpg I really enjoy. I've been playing 2020, and you can feel the love through the rough bits.
It's great if you play it casual with a DM familiar with it (or with good reference sheets).
The system (and feel to some degree) falls over if players are more interesting minmax murder-hoboing and/or having characters that are consistently successful.

The local group had a look at the new cyberpunk (red) recently too and it is extraordinarily dry by comparison. In the name of balance everything is boiled down to a handful of generic values - fast to run, easy to understand, but no mechanical depth or discovery.
   
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MN (Currently in WY)

So, the weather is terrible here so our game night was cancelled for the second night in a row. The internet is also threatening to have outages. Yikes!

However, has anyone tried an all text based RPG conducted over SMS that is diceless? What was it? What did you discover?

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

I haven't tried it but I'd imagine that it's a more chaotic and sped up version of play by post.

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However, this is going to be my first actual RPG review. It will follow the normal format my reviews take:

- Things I liked
- Things I did not like
- Meh and other uncertainties
- Final thoughts

Let's get into this with two-fists swingin' and snub-nose .38's blazing!
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/03/rpg-review-hard-city-osprey-games.html

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Thanks and I will take a look.

For those interested in OSR, the Shadowdark rpg kickstarter is in it's final 48 hours and is (at the time of this post) currently at $1.15 million in funding. Just going by the free intro rules, I don't think it's for me personally but lots of people seem to think/hope it's for them!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadowdarkrpg/shadowdark-rpg-old-school-gaming-modernized

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I am a relative newcomer to Legend of the 5 Rings. I have been familiar with it as an Intellectual Property for a long, long time but never really spent much time with it. However, I listened to an actual play of one edition or another on the Happy Jacks Podcast, and was intrigue by what I had heard. I listened to a few more podcasts and was even more interested. Then, one day I was at the Half-Price Bookstore and saw a copy of the Third Edition rulebook. I bought it.

Since then, I have managed to design a short campaign called "One Year in Rokugan" that was edition and stat block agnostic but based on my 3rd Edition knowledge. After all, there are 5 editions of the game! If you are part of my Patreon, you can find this campaign available there for free as a PDF. I have managed to play through the campaign using 3rd edition rules, and we all had a lot of fun. It was a huge difference from our normal D&D 5E games, and I enjoyed introducing the world of Rokugan to my players.



After that enjoyable campaign, there was an interest in updating from 3rd edition to 5th edition. I myself was curious about the differences, but had put off buying it. I all ready had 3rd edition, and figured there was no great need to update to the "newest". However, as I learned more about the new edition the core mechanics seemed markedly different than the AEG versions of the game I owned.

Therefore, with some hesitation; I acquired a copy for myself. Keep in mind Legend of the 5 Rings: 5th edition is NOT the same as Adventures in Rokugan; also by Edge Studios. Adventures is a skin for using Rokugan in D&D 5E. Legend of the 5 Rings: 5th Edition using its own system based on the Fantast Flight Games Genesys system. Genesys is used with games like Edge of Empire. It will be interesting to see where this game maintains and differs from the L5R I am familiar with.

So, let us don our Daisho and prepare to serve our Daimyo.....

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Late to the discussion but I’d give a +1 to GURPS, although it’s been a long time since I looked at it. I didn’t know the Fallout thing.

I’m very intrigued by the new The One Ring, which has a Moria kickstarter now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/moria-through-the-doors-of-durin/description
I have the Strider rules, which allow for GM-less play, and I’m hoping to try that out soon with my significant other. Anyone have thoughts on it?

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Greetings all.

Some of you maybe wondering "why so many RPG Reviews?" I know, I know, this is a wargame design blog! However, I have been dabbling a lot in RPG design, writing adventures, and playing RPGs! As part of this, I have been playing a lot of RPG sessions, and reading a lot of different rules sets. Therefore, that has led to a lot of RPG reviews.

Avatar: Legends is a Powered by the Apocalypse system RPG based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra cartoon series seen originally on Nickelodeon. So, to many of us that sentence might not make any sense! What does it all mean?

Well, let's start with the setting. The book is about half setting details and half-rules for game play. The setting focuses on a mystical world of various elemental powers, a spirit world, and nations built around affinity to these elements. The elements are Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. In addition, there is a martial arts tradition of "bending" these elements by channeling chi. So, basically it is another Fantasy Asian culture leaning much more towards Chinese and Southeast Asian influences as opposed to Legend of the 5 Rings that leans heavily into Japan.

If you want more setting stuff, try here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender

The players are a group of young heroes who have banded together to complete a great quest or adventure. They all have chosen to participate, are all familiar with martial arts, and are all generally good people. For the most part, they are also mostly tweens, teens, and young adults.

Great, now you know a bit about the premise. So, what the devil is Powered by the Apocalypse? This is a very loose philosophy for running an RPG that has a few similar traits. It is not a "mechanics system" per se as many of the rules that use the PbtA "system" have very different mechanics. However, it is more of a philosophy of how to play RPGs using these general ideas:

All dice rolls are determined on a 2d6
-7-9 is a success with complication, and 10+ is a success with some benefits
-The Game master does not roll any dice, only interprets results
-The focus is on Narrative and leaning into the story
-The game is designed to exploit genre conventions and tropes
-There is no Class/Level system, instead using genre archetypes in the form of Playbooks
-There is no Health/Hit points, instead causing conditions to apply to the character
-Players and the Gamemaster use a variety of pre-defined actions known as moves to broadly determine the action, these are designed to highlight the genre of the game.
-If you want to know more, you can look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_by_the_Apocalypse

So, now maybe that opening sentence makes more sense. It does? Great! With that being said, let's mount up on our Air Bison and "Yip, Yip" on our way!



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Whoooooooa I did not know that this is PBTA! I'm far more interested now

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Well, it took almost a year but I finally pressed the button and picked up Zweihander's starter set. I discovered it last year and asked about it in thread as it seemed like a great starter box but I have almost zero experience with either the game genre (horror) and setting (including WFRPG).

Why buy it then? Well, the starter box seems genuinely very well done from unboxings I've seen and I wanted to see it in person and, more importantly I saw it was ridiculously cheap on Amazon in the US (less than $20 shipping and tax included).

Has anyone played the game here? I know it's a knockoff/evolution/whatever of an earlier WFRPG edition but I don't have experience with that either.

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Well, I found out why the starters are so cheap now... because they're coming out with a new edition of Zweihander this year! Lol. I can't win. Regardless, it's a great starter set from a player perspective in terms of completeness and the sheer amount of stuff you get in terms of components for the price (even full price) but the rules aren't for me which I suspected. Same for the art other than the box cover painting. I doubt I'll ever play it and I definitely won't be trying to organize a session/campaign myself.

Any thoughts on or experience with Barbarians of Lemuria RPG? It's a rules light sword and sorcery Conan-inspired 2d6 system that seems pretty complete from a simple read through.

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

It also appears that Cubicle 7 (inheritors of the WFRP and makers of AOS Soulbound rpg) is also now making a WH Old World rpg as well. From their facebook announcement:

Breaking news! We are developing a new roleplaying game based on Games Workshop’s recently launched Warhammer: The Old World.
Our own Dominic McDowall said, “Exploring a new era with Warhammer: The Old World is an honour and a privilege. As huge fans of the classic Warhammer setting we’re thrilled to be working with Games Workshop on the new chapter of such a beloved setting.”
Fans of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay can rest assured it will continue as its own game line, with many, many releases already scheduled for the coming years.

https://www.facebook.com/Cubicle7Entertainment

From the chatter elsewhere, it's reported that it will use the Soulbound mechanics of a d6 dice pool system though I can't find an official source stating that.

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