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While it might take some re-learning if you're coming from a traditional tabletop background, if you're after narrative-driven roleplaying where a character's actions can heavily dictate the course of a scene, no one does it quite like **Schema**. It's light, it's unique, it's flexible (if you're willing to be a little creative and take the time to set up your own variations of the rules), and the depth of things that can happen from a given roll is immense. Think Apocalypse World's engine, but without the limitation of specific moves and rigid character roles. What's more, you can add just about anything you want and make it work if you try. For example, the system doesn't track health naturally, but if you want to, it doesn't require rewiring the rules. Just track it with some tokens and you're good to go!
The real beauty of Schema is that you can make most any task as complex or as simple as you want, and you can do anything you want without the need for an exhaustive list of spe...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
This supplement clocks in at 31 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page inside of front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages of introduction, 1 page ToC, 2 pages of SRD, 1 page advertisement, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 21 pages of content, though, as always for Legendary Games, these are cock-full with content – many other publishers wouldn’t have crammed this much text on a given page.
Okay, so, in a way, this pdf represents partially a player’s option booklet, partially a GM’s toolkit that also is somewhat relevant for players…but in order to explain that, we should take one step at a time.
Upon opening the pdf, we are greeted with something I did not expect, but very much enjoyed: The book presents us with a variety of ecologies for the respective elementals for the 4 core elements. This may sound like a small thing, but to me, text like this helps getting the creative juices going, and indeed, few beings require this little help as much as elementa...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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Review from **Mephisto 69 Online Add-On** (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261389/Mephisto-69-Onl-
ine-AddOn), translated from German (find orignal German review below)
**Vagabonds of Dyfed** is the roleplaying game that comes out when you combine the rules of *Powered by the Apocalypse* (PbtA) with *Old School Roleplaying* (OSR). **Vagabonds of Dyfed** modifies the concepts of PbtA a lot: The game offers no playbooks and only one move. The players describe their characters by a concept, six tags, their core flaws and different techniques. In addition there is the lineage, the origin, if the character is a human, an elf etc.. The techniques are typical OSR class skills. There you will find the possibility to work magic, to execute treacherous attacks or to heal by laying on hands. Instead of assigning these abilities to classes and levels, the player can individually craft his character. The core flaw, on the other hand, has the task of causing the player difficulties once per r...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
The #ZERO issue of the Night Soil ‚zine for DCC clocks in at 24 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisement, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 19 pages of content, laid out in approximately 6’’ by 9’’ (A5), meaning that you can theoretically fit up to 4 pages on a given sheet of paper when printing this.
As the editorial page makes clear, the theme of Night Soil as a ‘zine would be art – or, to be more precise, the art of the 4th printing of the DCC core rules. Basically, we get rules that correspond to the artworks in that book. Thus, content herein is not governed by type of material, but instead, in its sequence of the artworks that inspired their respective creation. While I do get the notion here, from a purely practical point of view, I am not particularly happy with this decision, as it ultimately makes finding a specific bit of content harder if you’re e.g. looking for a magic item. On the other hand, if you’re...
Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!] |
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Fae Noir (originally published in 2005) is an example of a very simple urban fantasy game executed in a very straightforward way. As such, it's definitely worth your time.
In the world of Fae Noir, after three hundred years of exile, the world of Faery returns to Earth in the midst of World War I, somewhat naively picking their promises and treaties back up as if they had never left, which embroiled them immediately in the battlefield. Now that the war is over (the game is set between 1922 and 1925, depending on how well established and well known you want Faery to be in the world's mind), faeries are slipping into the cracks in the underclass of human cities. And there, at least in the fictional 1920s, they will be dealing with gangsters, speakeasies, flappers, and tommy guns.
The book does a solid job of saying that racial prejudice and segregation are dramatic in America, mentions the rise of the "new" KKK in that time period, but also doesn't overlook the remarkable cultur...
Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!] |
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Would you like a mage for a neighbour? The wizards who live here certainly do, there are no less than four traditional wizard's towers here, although one has fallen into ruin. The introductory notes provide a few ideas for using them 'as is' - or of course you can use them individually whenever you have need of a residence for a mage. It also provides a key to common items on the maps, and directions on how to operate the customisation tools to show or hide numbers, grid, furniture and heavy fill on the black and blue versions of each plan.
First up, an overview of the valley, which has a Y-shaped river - the eddies suggest that the two branches entering from the bottom of the page join to flow off to the top-left, but that's up to you to decide. There are paths, woods, and bridges to enable the mages to visit each other without getting their feet wet or having to expend flying magic.
Next is a round tower described as the Old Wizard Tower. This has three levels plus a cellar and...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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