Traveller 5 First Impressions
Tweet I have a lot of great things to say about Traveller in general. It was the second role-playing game I ever played (the first being DnD). It was a trail-blazing game in many ways. It boasted an innovative character creation system, which providing players with a randomly generated character history of sorts. The game mechanics were fairly simple (for games from that era), and the eventual setting was rich in history and adventure possibilities. In fact, from … Read entire article »
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Review: Dwellers In Dream
Tweet This time I’m reviewing Dwellers in Dream by TPK Games. It contains five new Fey player races and is Pathfinder compatible. I’m not gonna give too much detail on the five races as I dislike giving away too much in a review, but I’ll mention some highlights. In their respective section, each race has a physical description, a picture, a brief overview of their society, their relations to other races, alignments & religion, examples of male and female names, abilities (racial, defense, etc…), traits and much more. There is A LOT of good, quality information here. Briarborn A race of plant-like humanoids. Described as “nature’s protectors,” they grow up from the ground itself and can have many wild looks as expected. I wasn’t expecting much out of the Briarborn, “plant people” creatures … Read entire article »
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Making Failure Interesting – Part 1
Tweet In a recent post on the Happy Jack’s forums, savagedaddy mentioned that the Bennies in Savage Worlds are rather one dimensional. He notes (and I agree) that they really only exist to turn a failure into a success, and in doing so kind of steer the plot down a specific path; one of character success. For those of you unfamiliar with Bennies (which is impossible if you’re a Happy Jacks RPG podcast listener) players can spend … Read entire article »
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