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The first time I ran Fading Suns was supposed to be a one shot. That game went on for two years.

A man of principle and taste. A connoisseur. I love Fading Suns for the same reasons I love Skyrealms of Jorune, and why I'm attracted to Free League's Coriolis: mystic space fantasy.

Fading Suns is a cool RPG I got a House Decados tattoo,i enjoyed it so much

Phenomenal acquisition Matt - I’ve been interested in playing or running this since it was released. I’ve been in a Dolmenwood campaign for awhile now, and the emergent nature of sandbox play has completely won me over.

Thanks for the preview, I had no idea this existed

Oh that is a nice book - I have it only in pdf. What not interested?

that is a mighty pretty book! Love the old school style art!

My written review: matthewjconstantine.com/2024/10/01/tabletop-rpg-review-the-tomb-of-black-sand/

That looks like a beautiful relic from the “before times.”

Not my typical genre but these are cute!

Love the Buc-ee's rep... but yeah, audio is very low, I have noticed the same when I record with my iPhone sometimes.

cheers, mate!

Since recording: There is movement on a new Tunnels & Trolls release. Check out The Gaming Gang Dispatch, as he has talked about it a few times. I am not going to Paris or London (sad trombone).

Super food as opposed to junk food

Always enjoy your musings Matt. An additional upshot of your shoddy, oligarchic local service provider is, as you said, that you actually own these films: no future corporation will revoke your use of it because they need to report additional subscriber growth in a future quarter’s earnings report! _The French Dispatch_ is probably my favorite Wes Anderson film.

Nice video, Constantine!

I’d love to learn more about this. It would help if you got a microphone so we can hear you better, especially since you’re kind of soft spoken.

4e is actually the best designed edition by far, as a set of rules, but was rejected by a noisy faction of older D&D players. However it still may not be your style of play.

I made the swap to flat minins......just EZ to take, store and tthey look FANTASTIC!!! gonna try paper terrain/buildings next.......

HaHa - your recounting of this movie is nearly similar to my own. I was born in the 70s, so this movie was a bit before my time, and it never played on TV, but my brother had seen it at a festival in LA (perhaps when it was restored?) and recommended it to me. But all he had to say was that Gene Tierney was a "hoot" and really good, and I should like it because it was a kind of a heightened, twisted melodrama. We don't like to spoil movies for one another, so he didn't divulge the plot, but even he couldn't pinpoint exactly what the movie was; because I asked him if it was like Hitchcock and he said, yea, a bit, but not really. I asked if it was campy, and he said that would be the wrong word for it. But I eventually I did see it thru Criterion, and Gene Tierney was indeed "a Hoot." The mesmerizing dominance she has in the movie is something to behold, and as the POSSESSIVE melodrama of the plot unfolds (culminating in the lake scene) you just start to go, "This movie is WILD!" So I really like it. And it's worth repeat viewings where the stunning locations and home interiors really start to stand out. It's a great looking film and a well acting film. But the over-the-top aspects, like Tierney's character being introduced galloping broodingly through the desert while scattering her dead father's ashes, make the whole film wonderfully outlandish and deliciously dark.

So looking forward to picking this up, incredible film

5 bux at 5 below, colorized paperback edition.

Why do you keep bringing up things being possibly racist? You're only reviewing a backpack dude. Are you one of those overreacting white liberals with white guilt that sees everything through a racism lens to life?

I have been running RQ for years. I would never consider running dnd ever again [tried 5e once as a dm once hated it]. If you want to run a different game just run it. If the players rebel. Don’t turn the dnd tap back on. Given a choice between the wrong game and no game most players will try the wrong game. I played dnd, because nothing else was on offer at the time. That’s no longer true. I have players who have wanted to play RQ for literally decades, get online and find some. 😊

Matt: "...if you want to get pedantic about..." Internet: "Don't mind if I do." ...keep up the fun, novel content man. I somehow missed _Fatale_ so that's going right to the top of the TBR queue!

I've about 6 sessions into this as a player and like it. We've still working on our first floating island, excavating old skyship hangers. We will be heading to the next one soon and will try some orcery.

An exceptionally weak and childish entity. The last adventure has also been published earlier. In addition, woke has also arrived in Glorantha. Most of the important NPCs are women and their attributes are ridiculously high. The equivalent of heavyweight boxers. I recommend skipping this one.

I always enjoy coming to your channel to get your interests. Hope you recover quickly and fully Matt!

This module was written for BECMI D&D, and specifically for the Companion box set which had rules for characters of level 15 to 25. This version of D&D went up to level 36 in the Masters box set, and then it ends with the Immortals box set where your character becomes a god.

I linked to Rowe's video in the Doobly Doo. Sadly, some life has happened since recording, and it seems I will not be returning to Paris this year.

Yes I saw that video too. Its a good idea. My mind is bad at names and I have no idea how long ago I watched their video. If I find their name I'll add it here.

Not even sure why this showed up in my feed.But pretty useless video to tell the truth. thanks for the try i guess. .

1) When you accidentally shut the Zoom on Saturday I told DJ that I hoped you were fixing a G and T for yourself. ;) 2) Way more permutations on these dice than most sets! One can really mix it up. Both CoC and Traveller are really good with improv, since they are set in "universes" that are quite variable in potential stories. 3) I used the spirit of these dice to come up with the four choices you're currently contending with in Traveller. (You know three of the four.) The two you chose? Rescue + betrayal + environmental hazard + split assets and equipment is way more interesting than "just Rescue." :D Imagine someone who took the dice image literally. LOL Great video. Love the T-shirt.

First of all, love the shirt. Buc-ee’s forever! But also, with the phone, might look at ways to improve the audio, maybe move closer to it?

Did you visit The Compleat Strategist? Something of a TTRPG Gaming Landmark in the heart of the city.

Succession is the HBO show I couldn't pull out of my mush-brain.

So far this is actually a pretty good review but I'm hearing about the same problems that are common even prevalent with seven addition and that's across the board I don't know what gas light is going to look like but it's probably going to look like this. And this sounds overwritten, a little too open-ended, poorly thought through with major concerns like it's the map just a picture map or is it supposed to actually be useful for the players or the or the keeper for that matter and if it's not really useful for the keeper and or the players then it must just be a picture map. But I'm also hearing that some areas were difficult to run because while they were fairly thoroughly written over and and detailed they lacked a storyline Coheed cohesion that made them fit in with the other events. So much of the 7th edition has like this catalog of dramatic personal and I at the beginning sometimes at the end and then a background that the keeper will know but there's no transmission of this information to the players within the campaign or the scenario. And then there's just a kind of jumping around I hear some a paragraph about this faction or person and within this paragraph there are kernels of a story and then there's another paragraph about a place and the history of that place and within the history of that place here's another Colonel of the story and it's it's just to much of an Easter egg hunt to really just pull out the story and make it easy to run the campaign and then plug in the details as the players get to those elements get to those areas get to those people get to those interviews get to those digging around points with spot hidden and snakes and ducking and dodging. It really really really really really really makes me miss second through 4th edition. I love what Paul fricker and Company largely did in 7th edition, especially with the new rules for luck and the pushed roll and spending luck on failed rolls. I do not like the chase system that takes the game out of the RPG and into the board game you almost need a map of pads and spaces and Monopoly pieces to move along in order to accomplish Chase things with the chase rules. I've always found them to be about it's interesting is cardboard. So I describe the same and ask for the roles but tell the story The Mechanics feed the story with speed dexterity obstacles hazards but the story has to be the biggest part. And I think that grabbing the action and plopping it into a board game it might as what we shoot some letters. With monsters granted but still. So every time I have a chase scene to negotiate I look for new ways to keep that going without fogging down the mechanics. This campaign it doesn't sound like something I'm going to spend $35 for a hard copy but I might spend $17 for the PDF file. I'd really like to have a look at more content so I'll go in have a peek at the samples that are available on the chaosium.com website and fish around for more information some people who have actually purchased and run it like you like yourself. Congratulations bill on your first hope campaign! Congratulations for stepping back into the game after you know a long stretch. I did that myself. Raised my kids up into their late 20s before I was actually able to start running the game again had time and and things like that and had a group of people that were largely interested in playing including my daughter and son-in-law! That's a lot of fun and I could I could do a primer myself on having couples at the table and having your own offspring at the table you got to cut all those ties and get them to play for themselves and not protect one another incessantly oh no don't do that you might get hurt LOL or mom quit telling me what to do I am just asking for a roll here LOL I'm not your mom I'm your keeper of Arcane War drop that Mom stuff I'm going to have you make Insanity checks until you're 40 okay I will have her making sanity checks until she's 40 and she's loving every minute of it. I can't recommend the two-headed serpent more enthusiastically enough. I'm actually running it for the second and third time. What? No I don't have a Time Turner but I do have the home group who wanted to play it a second time, and a group about 20 mi away that I'm running at 4:00 every other week. So I'm running it for the second and third time almost simultaneously. Because of some delays and a convention that we all had in the middle and people being sick and other people moving and a lot of other other things we've had enough delays in both groups that they're both almost in the same place now. And what group is only supposed to be playing two-headed serpent every other week but we hit a particular portion of the campaign that takes place in Iceland that's going to take several weeks and we don't want to break away from it and play masks ofNyarlathotep in between so and I'm not ready to run the next portion of masks anyway. This which is deemed the most dangerous campaign written as a 7th edition pulp Cthulhu Adventure is pretty cool but there's that overwritten thing and 30 something pages of drama persona. No. I'm not kidding. I originally ran it in the 90s as a consolidated softback book and honestly I keep reverting to the original from the hugely elaborately presented 7th edition $150 to volume 42 LB book and handout set. I did buy the prop set from things we love her at Historical Society. Seth has a box opening of that. You should check it out other people have done so as well. And it's it's worth buying the handouts are so well done. So there's that but the original is a little under 200 pages no it's not even that! And the 7th edition is 700 pages. Yep. Takes a lot of text to fill up that many sheets of paper. Not that it isn't worth it and it isn't beautiful and that isn't really a lot of fun but I run into the same problems so many pieces of the storyline are sequestered in paragraphs about people places or things meant to give you information but the storyline such as it is has been deconsolidated and Scattered like seeds of grass throughout the campaign which is considerable. Okay thanks again for your comment here for your video review. I'm definitely going to check out this particular book. And see what I think

its definitely hard to find people who want to try different types of fantasy RPG. Every local community I encounter its all D&D and maybe Pathfinder. I want to try Runequest too but not sure how many people play it

super!

Great shout out for Scavengers Reign. A stunning and risky (for these times) choice for visual storytelling.

Dragonbane’s DNA is Basic Roleplaying. Bring out your CoC rule book. Take a look at the original play testing group credits. One (Fred Malmberg) of the founders of ”Äventyrsspel” (Adventure games, creators of “Drakar och Demoner”) is in the list.

I bought my copy earlier this year. I felt I should have it, as CoC is my favorite RPG, but also because it's such a landmark in the evolution of RPGs. That it is highly relevant 40+ years later is a testament to what a robust system it is.

Elric does use BRP! Wish I still had mine! Great video!

I can't believe you missed great one from the 80s...Big Trouble in Little China. It would fit perfectly with the setting, the sction, the magic, the martial arts, and even the plot. Just chsnge the time period from the 80s to 1920s or 1930s San Francisco Chinatown. Then you could even add another element, the Triads/Tongs. The book The Gangs of New York has a chapter or two about the Triads/Tong wars from the late 1800s through the 1930s. The Hop Sings and the On Leongs both had chapers in both New York's and San Francisco's Chinatowns. Those groups could be used as added mooks or red herrings for the major villian.

I also love setting CoC adventures in my area (Dallas); players often comment on how much more "real" the setting feels when I am able to incorporate actual places and little bits that reflect what life is really like in a given area.

Dude, go ahead and get volumes 4,5,6 & 7. It’s just the right thing to do. Forget about the reviews. Everything ElfQuest is amazing 👍

I really like solo RPGs and in fact I'm playing Ker Nethalas while I watch this.

Confirming that Call of Cthulhu 7e (and some of the newer scenarios & campaigns) directly address the issue about missing core clues. That said, I have ToC and quite a few supplements for them, and I've run them with Cthulhu Dark and CoC. At some point, I want to get ToC itself to the table, to be honest. Also, yeah, ToC is under work but not sure when it will be out.

I was pleasantly impressed with the offers at Free RPG Day, notably the _Dragonbane: The Sinking Tower_ and _The Hollows_ quickstarts.

Oh nice, East of West! Been meaning to check that out myself for a while now. Hickman is one of the best writers around. I actually haven't read much of his creator owned stuff (only The Nightly News and The Manhattan Projects). But yeah, his stuff at Marvel is incredible. His runs on FF (Fantastic Four and then Future Foundation), Avengers/New Avengers, and X-Men are all excellent. And now he is killing it on Ultimate Spider-Man.