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Peril Planet’s Freeform Universal RPG – Action Tales!
Having got excited about 1981’s best RPG, DragonQuest, to show my eclectic side, I have really got excited about Peril Planet’s Freeform Universal RPG, more generically known as ‘Action Tales! RPG’. In particular the 2e of the game, currently in … Continue reading
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Dragonbane: Trudvang
It seems like an obvious connection, pairing the most up-to-date iteration of Drakar och Demoner, Free League’s Dragonbane, to the rich game world of Riot Mind’s previous system expression, Trudvang Chronicles. I have wanted to explore the Trudvang setting for … Continue reading
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DragonQuest Characters
A quick update on DragonQuest Characters. They are mostly done for now. I’ve used a simple pro-rate method to give them starting Ranks in two professions, profession skills and adventurer skills. There’s some more fluff text to add, but … Continue reading
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Pro Rating DragonQuest Characters
Perhaps one of my more specialist blog posts! I’m planning some convention DragonQuest, and wanted a method to uplift starter characters to a higher degree of competance, edging into the ‘adventurer level’. Initially I looked at generating a pool of … Continue reading
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DragonQuest: The Fifth Book – Worldly Endeavour
Having recently jumped into DragonQuest, I am testing its edges and expanding the game where it expects and encourages. With no practical experience of the game, I’m running on instinct and the GMing Rank 4 ability: Table Sense. To be … Continue reading
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A rumble through SPI’s DragonQuest – play like it’s 1981!
As happens every time a Grogmeet emerges, I scurry off to bury myself in a game from ‘back in the day’. Today, I have taken a joyful canter through the densely enumerated DragonQuest (2e), to look in some depth at … Continue reading
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Roleplaying in the Ashes of an Empire
Twilight Imperium Embers of the Imperium A Genesys RPG Space Opera Campaign Setting This sourcebook delivers a galaxy spanning space opera for Genesys, taken from the strategic board game. In 290 attractively laid out pages, a GM is given all … Continue reading
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More Hjältarnas Tid Actual Play
Not quite a once and done then! It was nice to get Hjältarnas tid out to the table once more at TavernCon. The game ran very smoothly, demonstrating most of the key concepts, or at least as many as I could … Continue reading
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2023 – Half Way There Games Tally
Can it be July?! As I try not to look at the Free League games sale on their store, I have opportunity to reflect on where I have got to with 2023 games. With both the D&D campaigns ending during … Continue reading
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Shadow of the Sorcerer – Session #2
With a Session 0/1 under our belts, and some intriguing characters needing adventure, our Conan 2D20 RPG mini-campaign got properly underway last night. Our heroes, of appropriately loose character, are off to steal a jewel artefact from the house of … Continue reading
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