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The Sword of Cepheus is a 'sword and sandals' RPG based on the 2d6 traveller system. It is available as a pod from dtrpg. Other good fits for Harn could include Chaosium's BRP, Zweihander, or Savage Worlds. I could even see it working with Ironsworn depending on the aspects of the fiction you...

I wish it was like this with Warlords. (Or interesting Fighter archetypes)

And also very wrong. Force is mass x acceleration, not mass x velocity. Force as you describe it, is not a useful metric when discussing damage. When I sit in my chair, my 75kg mass accelerating at 9.8ms^-2 under the effect of gravity puts a force of about 750N through my butt... What causes...

I ran B10 Night's Dark Terror using SPI's Dragonquest rules and it was one of the best modules we ever played.

Yes, SPIs Dragonquest had Endurance and Fatigue (wounds and vitality) which were (pretty much) fixed at character creation. I can't remember off hand when 1e DQ was published, but we played 2e in the early '80s and it had been around a few years then.

Reminds me of playing Car Wars where we sometimes played all day to find that about 10 seconds of game time had elapsed...

$86 shipping to anywhere outside the US/Canada for Hyperborea on a $110 pledge. Glad I noticed that before I got myself all interested.

Yes, and I actually really enjoyed it, although I think that makes me an outlier; it wasn't generally well received.

You can make up examples like this that cut the other way.....what if the enemy had 51HP? I get what you are saying....at least I think I do, and I apologise if I am putting words in your mouth....that Expectation (DPR) isn't the only important measure, but that's why statisticians have well...

One that stuck out for me as particularly bad was Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series. I read and enjoyed the Elric books back in the 80's. They weren't particularly well written, but...ELRIC!! STORMBRINGER!!! (I almost wrote Black Razor there....). I trawled the second hand bookshops in...

That's an interesting perspective (on The First Law trilogy). I've always thought that Abercrombie was focussing on the mundane against the backdrop of the epic sweep of the story. For me, the focus on the very believable and human characters, most of whom are in some way broken, made the world...

I bought the Starfinder book just to take a look. It was about £13 on Amazon. Really good value, but I'm not sure how it would stand up to repeated use.

I'm a fan of the AGE system, but I'd dispute your claim that they've done all the Maths. A common criticism of the game is the relative ease of hitting (and being hit), especially at higher levels. I'm playing around with house rules to help defence to scale better with attack bonuses.

So much that DQ got right back in the early 80s. Fatigue/Endurance, flavourful collages of magic, and skill ranks to name three without going too far off topic.

Thank you for brightening my day.

WotC are, in my opinion, entitled to sell their products in whatever way and at whatever price they want. I personally don't want to pay their prices for a digital copy, but that just makes me more likely to shower my hard-earned on another publisher. I would, however, seem to be in the minority...

That's not really the point that Gygax was making here though. He's making the more dubious argument that any novel's suitability as a setting for any RPG is inversely proportional to the depth of the world building. I can see this point in that in a well developed setting there could be less...

Totally missed that, thanks for pointing it out. I think The Witcher is one of those shows that will benefit from repeated viewing :)

I actually noticed Geralt's costume changing between episodes - in one episode it was worn and dirty, in a later one new and shiny - before I realised about the timeline jumping. I only realised what was happening when I saw a link on pcgamer to an interactive timeline posted by the shows...

I think it's the former too. Comparing the power description (you make a ranged basic attack with a weapon) with other powers in HotFK that lack the weapon keyword, for example the Cavalier's Holy Smite (Trigger: You target an enemy with an at-will weapon attack power), demonstrates the...