Recent content by Koloth

In addition to paints, minis and brushes, get an X-acto knife set and a few of those diamond coated mini files. Most minis can benefit from some cleanup out of the package. Mold lines and such. One of those 'Third Hand' set of adjustable clamps can really help. 2nd the warning about...

Balance is tricky. At some point, the GM assumes the players will play their characters a certain way. When the players(it only takes one) do something unexpected, an encounter can suddenly get very easy or very deadly for the PCs. If the GM designs an encounter to be deadly slowly with...

One way to simplify the tedium of many die rolls to 'just get there' would be for the GM to make one roll. Success, the ship is there. Fail, something interesting happens. If fail, then the various crew make skill rolls to see what is so interesting. Pirates. Jump malfunction. Passengers...

Setting books that are not hard tied to one system. Example would be Green Ronin's Freeport book. Other examples like World's Biggest City/Dungeon books. Bonus points for including a pdf that recasts any included NPCs for other systems. Don't try to make me buy a $70+ book with D&D NPCs that...

Not all apocalypses result in a bad long term outcome. The Star Trek universe assumed that Earth suffered a WWIII and still had enough tech and ability left to attract the green pointy eared aliens. The TV Buck Rogers show had a similar concept. There are post apocalypse possibilities other...

Information on the Internet isn't always correct. Could be just a typing error in the entry. Or deliberately wrong info placed there by <redacted>. PC entered search terms could be wrong and result in information that seems good but isn't. Phone signal dies shortly after the PCs enter the...

Sounds like a perfect excuse to create an assortment of pre-gen characters complete with G.I Joe quality code names. Let your new players pick from the pre gen pile but make it clear the code names are part of the character background. Bonus, this will save an entire session 0.0 dedicated to...

A lot of SJG's KS are less about funding the creation effort and more about "How many do we need to produce?" In these cases, delivery is often just how long it is from the factory being told 'make this many' to arrival in your mailbox. Unless licensing prohibits, they often produce X amount...

Since Santa is often referred to as "A jolly old elf" it does seem like Santa Elves can grow beards. At least the one that is the Face of the organization. Maybe there is more going on behind the walls of Toy Central that we mere non Santa Elves are not meant to know. As for a D&D...

Short answer, Yes I expect there will be new versions. Depending on how you count D&D versions, there is a new one on average every 6.25 years. The 10 years between 5E and 5E-2024 is on the long side historically. I consider the ORC version of PF2 to be a new version. Even if not a major...

One of the reasons the original Verne character was able to pull off the trip was the near universal presence of the British Empire in some fashion almost everywhere along the trip. Or a country(USA) that was at least semi-friendly to the Brits. Unless you are assuming a similar mostly...

At that time, secret doors, and traps, were all the rage. If a room or corridor didn't have one or the other, players often suspected that something was missed and spent a bunch of time looking for the probably, non existing secret door and/or trap. That map is perfectly normal for the time...

Pathfinder 2(ORC version) Traveller Original - because of the possible death during character generation.... GURPS Some variation of a superhero game. If you combine GURPS + superheros, then Star Wars for #4.

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Another important ship function is troop transport and landing. An orbital battleship might be able to blast a planet to bits(aka Star Wars Deathstar), but to capture a usable planet some type of ground force is needed. While the ship to ship combat in WWII Pacific got a lot of the headlines...