Recent content by thullgrim

There quite a bit of condensing as well. Room descriptions, loot, lots of things get removed but not the encounters themselves. The number of combatants might change but as a general rule if the AP had an encounter the conversion will as well. Sometimes there are obvious solutions. In Burnt...

I typically hand be. It’s out after every scene. Bennies are also health, not just re-rolls of other bonuses. I find ‘low level’ Savage Worlds on par with PF 1 for encounter time. I find ‘high level’ Savage Worlds on par with ‘low level’ Savage Worlds for encounter time. That is to say it’s...

About twice a year I get the urge to look at Shadowrun. I’ve got all of 4 and 5 and about a third of 6. If I were going to run it I’d use Savage Worlds and the SR setting. Both Sprawlrunner and Interface 0 for Savage Worlds would do the job at least as well as anything Catalyst has done. I...

I recently read the Morhership Players Guide and it was awesome to via pdf. Easy on the eyes, great integration of graphics with text. Just a real joy to work through. Not sure it qualifies as pure OSR but is definitely inspired.

I’m another PF1 GM. I’ve tried PF2 three different times running the game from 1-5. It’s just too tight. It wasn’t for me or my players. I was really disappointed I could not make it work for us. In a marketing meeting I’m the target audience. We really love PF1 and return to it frequently...

1975. Another X’er.

I run GURPS when I want something closer to real people. I’m gearing up for a Weird War 2 game using it. I run Savage Worlds when I want something more kinetic and action oriented. Best game I’ve run in the last five years was a Nights Black Agents game run using SWADE. If it’s five games...

I’m not sure why, but I find it interesting that both GURPS and Savage Worlds are “#2” in the survivor list with exactly the same percentage. I’d be curious about the overlap between the people whose chose those two systems. It might be the same 11 people. I know the last couple of years my...

GM Burnout. New Shiny. I get bored a want to change things up. I’ve gotten better the last couple of year though. Rigorously cutting down the systems I run has helped. I think the shortest thing I ran in the past 2-3 years 12 sessions and that was Blades in the Dark. Sometimes it’s...

Player vs GM expectation mismatch. I want to run an immersive dungeon and the players all buy in up front. Three sessions in that agreement gets tossed and it’s back to beer and pretzels smash and grab. I hate having to prep for the VTT. Tokens aren’t hard but mapping and walls sucks. These...

Tentatively April according to January’s GURPS news post.

GURPS DF 24: Finer Points. Have not had a chance to look through it though. I am really looking forward to the forthcoming skills book for GURPS too.

Same. My initial thought was to use Tzeentch but I’m leaning more and more towards Nurgle at the moment. My “original missing party’’ is another set of acolytes gone missing. Unbeknownst to the party patron they were led astray by a radical =I= who happens to be his superior. I’ve got a few...

My taste tend towards 6-7 at the low end (maybe 5 depending on where you put Blades in the Dark) to 8-9 at the upper end. I run a lot of GURPS and PF1 these days.

SWADE and Pinnacle. SWADE works for pulpy action and multi-genre games and Star Wars fits that bill.