The Gaming Den

I'm still surprised that they don't bite the ball gag and produce an AD&D with a MtG-flavored default setting. Master of Magic came out 26 years ago . Heroes of M&M IV came out in 2002. You can graft the color-wheel onto ye default fantasy setting very easily, and while Hasbro has been resis...

What kind of goals do different player characters have, and can a mixed party be possible It's assumed that all of the PCs are loyal to the WBA, and will cooperate to achieve various WBA missions, such as: [*] Go expose and kill this alien infiltrator, [*] Prove that those transhumans were framed, ...

Something to remember about player affiliation: no matter how you write the setting, whichever side the PCs on is going to be the sympathetic side. If your game is 'social commentary on the nature of post-colonial societies' and you are having all of the PCs be the armed agents of the former imperi...

Is the world map basically the same countries we have in the real world? How long were the aliens in charge? What were the big strategic advantages that allowed them to conquer the planet? Or what were the soft power carrots and sticks they used to negotiate compliance in collaborator governments? ...

Even on the Necromunda scale, you don't want ten hitboxes per dude, that's too much paperwork. I'm sure I'm rehashing points from Frank's weapon differentiation post, but these are truisms, and most of what looks clever is not an improvement. Let's suppose that you have a roll to hit, penetrate and ...

This sounds a lot like a post X-Com 2 world to me, with the PCs being former members of the ADVENT. The overall backstory elements you've mentioned seem to match up well enough to the events of that game and the War of the Chosen expansion that I'm wondering if you might not be better of just doing...

So the basic premise is that you play as enhanced humans who were the elite of a now-overthrown alien government on Earth. Significant influences include (I need to expand this list): [*] The human-alien hybrids from X-files. [*] The transhuman soldiers of the Combine Overwatch from halflife. [*] al...

Okay, let's resume. L&D pp. 104-160, 'Eavy Metal, Chaos Warbands, Beastmen, Centaurs, Minotaurs, Dragon Ogres, Undead Champions compares to... StD pp. 145-168, Colours of Chaos ... sorta So only the first part of this review has a clear correspondence between StD and L&D at all, and there i...

Magical Industrial Revolution looks most interesting of these.

Does it assume some D&D-like setting?

Those with superior warhammerology know that this has swung back and forth in various novels... the Alpha Marines are agents of the Hydra which is going to be a human hive mind, which makes them secretly good guys in some versions... the fluff gets very convoluted Hey? I thought the Hydra business ...

We're at L&D pp. 161 - 191 - THE EYE OF TERROR; CHAOS CULTS; THE EMPEROR; THE STAR CHILD This compares to StD pp. 209 - 247 - "DARK MILLENIUM" minus the army lists These are largely fluff chapters, but of course they have little bits of rules scattered throughout. For example, pp. 166...

We're at L&D page pp. 193 - 234 - the Armies of Chaos; Chaos Army of Nurgle; Chaos Army of Tzeentch this compares to StD pp. 194 - 208 - Armies of Chaos; Armies of Khorne; Armies of Slaanesh Now the attitude of this era is that your chaos warband is meant to be role playing based with hilarious...

Now the attitude of this era is that your chaos warband is meant to be role playing based with hilarious random rolls, and not a tournament wargame right? I was there but too young to understand it...I was hoping someone would explain it to me. Rogue Trader in the rulebook seems quite RPG/narrative...

Which storyline are you thinking of Dr P? Tzeentch's minions are the protagonists of The Enemy Within in WFRP 1, Khorne's minions are the protagonists of the main campaign in WFRP 2, IIRC. Your Warhammerology is superior - for some reason, I thought Nurgle was the main villain in The Enemy Within. ...

I realize I glossed over an important aspect of that last section - are the demons cool ? Part of the reason I glossed over this is that the demons are actually introduced in more detail (including special rules that they don't bother to repeat here!) earlier in the book. This chapter mostly concer...

Moving backwards through L&D, we next come to: pp. 238, Daemon Legions of Chaos (in L&D) which corresponds to: pp. 176, Daemonic Legions (in StD) no, actually pp. 173, Battles in the Chaos Wastes (in StD) So again, both of these books have an opener that you'll be battling in the Chaos Waste...

So did Bryan Ansell have ghost-writers? Was he taking credit for other people's work? Was he just hard to work with? It doesn't seem like these two books were written by the same person. Re-reading my review above, it occurs to me that anyone who doesn't know how Chaos Champions work in Warhammer , ...

The other thing to remember is that 40K was a fork from second edition, but the people writing this book seem to think you can re-use rules between 40K and 3rd edition? I want to start our comparison here: The Lost and the Damned, pp. 252, Chaos Renegades but we'll also be comparing vs. Slaves to Da...

So, Lost and the Damned - what do you get? Divided roughly into sections: [***] You get ~40 pages of Nurgle and Tzeentch material, including a bit of crunch. You saw Nurgle, but no-one cares what Tzeentch looks like. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/b/ba/MagnusDaemonPrimarch.p...

The first thing you'll notice is that the book has a giant picture of Papa Nergal on the cover who - fun fact! - is now President of these United States. https://cf.geekdo-images.com/opengraph/img/1PtwdIOiwhV5ELuPP4vrtzzjNX0=/fit-in/1200x630/pic505873.jpg Shown here, a MAGA rally Set the wayback mac...

Okay, not only have I read this review - but I've seen people play multiple games of Rage to completion and I still have no idea what is going on. So the Elder Vampire can use any Philodox or Shadow Lord gifts. Suppose there's a Shadow Lord+Dog Fucker gift - can the elder vampire use it? The Elder V...

AH has a Jungian shadow who is totes credulous for Huitzilopochtli and Jesus being the same meta-myth. Anyway: https://frialigan.se/en/news/#/pressreleases/free-league-signs-deal-to-publish-rpgs-in-tolkiens-middle-earth-2979811 so there's a version of this game that uses 5th edition D&D rules in...

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AH has a Jungian shadow who is totes credulous for Hu?tzil?p?chtli and Jesus being the same meta-myth. Anyway: https://frialigan.se/en/news/#/pressreleases/free-league-signs-deal-to-publish-rpgs-in-tolkiens-middle-earth-2979811 so there's a version of this game that uses 5th edition D&D rules in...

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If he dies, I need to pick a religion.

The deity must have a sharp sense of humor, and I'd like some quality ceremony, music, costuming, etc.