Recent content by dbm

Well, my three votes (Broken Empires, Ars Magica, Invincible) all placed so I feel validated 🙂 Congratulations to Professor DM!

They are quite possibly the most longevitous small publisher of RPGs these days?

They have said that SJG (presumably Warehouse23) will offer a book + PDF bundle, which looks like maybe 50% off the PDF price. SJG have always been really strong on the position that the PDFs are a valuable asset and don’t bundle them free with their print products.

They have said that if they launch a fifth edition then they will be pretty much committed to new editions of all the main expansions. And currently there isn’t the demand that shows it would be a viable thing to do. So if 4eR seems to help bring new people to the game and the overall health of...

Sounds like they mistook ghost player characters for ghost player characters…

Savage Worlds has pulp action at its core, and it is one of the few games I have personally found that delivers on that premise. It’s my favourite genre-flexible system because pretty much all the games I want to run are some type of pulp - pulp sci-fi, pulp horror, pulp fantasy and so on. It’s...

Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion has a power stunt mechanic. A character can spend a benny (a meta currency) to use their powers creatively to achieve some non-standard aim. So maybe a character with fire powers might use a power stunt to create an obscuring cloud by blasting water into...

One of the stated aims for the GURPS 4e Revised rulebook is to improve accessibility (though with a constraint of maintaining page numbers for cross referencing) so it will be interesting to see how that turns out. Due March ‘26.

I haven’t played Brindlewood Bay but I know my group would see a very big difference between acquiring clues to solve a pre-designed mystery and acquiring clues to a point where they can roll to see if their theory is correct (which would solve the mystery). While the second option might leave...

Genre and style are definitely different things. You can run noir / horror / four-colour supers / fantasy / sci-fi with Fate, Savage Worlds, GURPS or HERO and each would deliver the same genre with a different feel through their approach. Systems like Cortex and Fudge are more like toolkits in...

GURPS gives you a lot of tools for this in the core books, including advantages and disadvantages for allies, dependents and enemies. There are also a range of different social and influencing skills / ads + disads that can affect NPCs where the player doesn’t have an established relationship...

Boardgames are my secondary hobby, and I’ve gotten in pretty extensively over the last five years or so, building up my own collection. One of my regular gaming buddies also has an extensive board game collection (more extensive than mine). Personally I tend to buy fantasy-themed games (with...

The game still continues… in that video she was a kitten but even now she still likes to wrestle ratty from time to time We have a leather glove inside the hand puppet as those claws got too sharp for plush a long time ago!

We’ve played a fair bit of Savage Pathfinder. Both the ancestries and class edges are slightly up-powered compared to the versions in core Savage Worlds and the Fantasy Companion, so you would potentially want to adjust for that. It probably isn’t a significant factor, especially after the...

I find this, too. Reading how Pinnacle implemented Deadlands, Pathfinder, and Rifts using Savage Worlds taught me a lot about how to home brew and customise the game to better fit a desired campaign concept.