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Some of you will remember that I wrote Navigator RPG last year, beta tested into the beginning of 2020 and published it in the Spring. The game is PDF, premium softcover and premium hardcover. And it looks really cool, even if I say so myself. One my todo list is Pilot RPG, the natural partner …
but probably slowly. It is great that the ICE site is back up and running, and it looks like they preserved most of the data, everything important at least. It is also great that RMu seems to be still making progress. I think it was about this time two years ago that I last got …
I am coming up to speed with the second wave of 50in50 adventures. I really wanted to do something Robin Hood and/or Arthurian in nature but the subject matter demands more than the short format adventure allows. It could well be a future project, but now is not the time. Last week I spent a …
In December I wrote an encounter. The gist of it was that the characters come across an angel trying to deliver a message to some shepherds but the angel gets attacked by some big tough demons. The characters get to make the choice to intervene or not, if the angel is defeated it will try …
Is it the butterfly effect where some small event begins a chain of events with significantly bigger but unforeseen consequences? I cannot even remember the conversation that started it but I ended up emailing back and forth with Ken Wickham, from the ICE forums and trying out his super light ABS12 game system. Ken got …
I hope 2020 pans out to be a good year for everyone. I have to say that I am a little disappointed that we didn’t see RMu released in 2019. I am not that surprised but I am disappointed. If the game was close to release I would have expected to see a ramping up …
I have a desire to do something Steampunky and I was thinking about how would one do this? I was looking at the image above and thought how would I run that in the session. I came up with two approaches. Many Monsters This approach gives the GM the greatest amount of variety. let me …
This time last month I was talking about 2 page adventures. My thinking was that a book on how to random adventures may be more useful to GMs needing an instant, low prep adventure than try to sell written adventures. I have described adventure writing as a fool errand and a thankless task in the …
Take a look at the post below from Stargazer’s World. SFA is a retro clone of Lord of the Rings, which was a simplified MERP which was a simplified RM. I don’t see SFA as a direct threat to RMu. It is an 18 page free pdf game. The biggest threat is that these games, …
Way back last year sometime I did a direct comparison between RMu, RMSS, RMc/RM2 starting PCs and those of other d100 systems like vsDarkmaster and BRP. In all cases the starting skill bonuses were within a handful of percentage points of each other. To all intents and purposes you could play any adventure from any …