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As of 2024 is this game still hard to buy/out of print? I’m very interested in playing this game with family/friends but I don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on one game

Does it have anything that is not within the core box set?

Good gameplay! Wanted to say how much I admire your Holo figure in your banner, hope you're enjoying the new season!

Dude, this is fascinating! You should write a book or some kinda sourcebook for an OSR game. I’d play the heck out of it. Your grasp of worldbuilding from just a few words on a page is fascinating.

Currently in the middle of falling asleep when I stumbled across this video, but I’m excited to watch it and give some feedback! Just wanna say I’m happy to see some coverage on this game and some love for an off-the-beaten-path RPG.

I'm definitely interested in Gary Gygax's works post TSR, mainly anything that isnt dnd at this point. It's too bad these old products can't be brought back to life through print and play. It seems Drive Thru RPG has shown it is a viable business model.

Loved it now I am hoping for videos on how to help the RPG player who is blind and yet homebound as well. Which I have in my player group. He has never played 5th Edition D&D only older versions that use the OSR theater of the mind. But distance and ranges in 5th is more codified. How do I work around that when they can't play in person and only via video chat format?

Thanks for the video! I love this game so much. I really like that you have to actually spread your legend to "cash in" on the XP equivalent. A lot of people appreciate how stuff like gold for XP incentivises a certain approach to the game but this is much more elegant.

Thank you for the video. I really enjoy your content about the Prince Valiant Storytelling game. I'd love to see a video going more in-depth on the alternative classes that are offered for those that want a party composed of not just knights. Happy holidays!

Hi i have Calvin Coolidge coin Are you interested in it or not?

For initiative cards, rotating different directions for different moves (or upside down for both) is extremely clunky. What about simply rotating 90 degrees (direction doesn't matter) after using a fast action, and flipping the card over to hide the number after using a slow action? If you've used your slow action you won't be needing to reference your initiative number for the rest of the combat round anyway.

Very neat! These are some nice rules, and the book itself is a great starting point for writing one's own naval game. Also nice to see the Cosmo Navy on an outing that doesn't involve being kicked to pieces by the Gamilas. :)

Super interesting! A lot of really good ideas I'm gonna use rn

Stay alive is one of my favorite micro setting genre books. I use it for more then just horror games. Great video keep them coming. Anthony

Torg Eternity has a similar mechanic for story telling. It's a character Perk that allows a character to gain extra Possibilities for the session when he tells the tales of the PCs' Glorious deed. It's not quite as strong as getting XP from it though.

Hey John I just ordered the book for Prince Valiant Storytelling game off of amazon. 57 Samolians shipped. This is mainly based on your recommendation. Boy I hope its good. Do you play online?

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I'm studying "the Genre" (Cozy/Wholesome/Slice of Life), through others, like your Self right now. That's faster, more heartfelt, and more affordable than just buying anything with those Tags off Itch or Drive Thru. Sadly, there aren't a lot of videos on the Topic. Yours ranks well. I appreciate how well spoken you are and the thought you put into this. If you know of other Systems, I'd take your recommendation. Breath well.

I can't believe I didn't know "Stay Alive!" contains a setting about vampires. It already looked very interesting but now I'll need to get it ASAP. Sidenote: Monte previosly made a WoD book for White Wolf. As constructive criticism, I'm ok with a long video and your pace but for an almost 1hr long video I think you could go a little deeper into the details of the reviewed content.

The gods are gone and when they died they became diamond bits that are spread across the world. That has to be one of tha coolest worldbuilding ideas I've casually thrown while reviewing a book. Great video! I've run Tavern Brawl once and we had a blast. The group was deeply interested in having more magical characters and I was amazed of how effortlessly I could adapt it to suit their needs. That's why I'm in love with the Cypher System.

Thanks for putting this content out. I share your Prince Valiant story. Born in 1981 I would visit my grandparents often who had the 70’s era nostalgia press books and I read them religiously. However, I preferred Garfield as well until I inherited those books and read them with my own daughter!

Thanks for this, LA deserves a lot more attention than what actually gets

I just picked this up from my flgs. The incentive to retire characters is what grabbed my eye, and delving upwards.

I don't think the ones, skulls, cancel out the successes of the sixes

amazing!! i will try this in my rpg!!

The only RPG I've got cards for is Mythras, for its combat maneuvers. I've heard they're handy in play but I've yet to use them as a GM.

I personally very much enjoy the way card mini games were integrated I to the mechanics and narrative of Torg Eternity

In forbidden lands i think players roll the dice, not the DM. Outside of soloplay. It might help to have other players at the table help out reading the dice?

I work on my on system, which uses Fudge/Fate dice, so maybe you want to hang on to them if you like to give that a try... at least if I ever get it finished and printed!

font size, margins and formatting all things I find important. I have a budget for rpgs but unless its a great game im too cheap to buy prio dice. I have been burned too often -looking at you FFG. the dice are difficult for even those without visual impairment

Thank! this is very intresting idea! cant wait to try it!!

Interesting idea! Here's what I'd do, I think: 1. Multiply it by half your level but rounded up. So every odd level you add another die. 2. Give it to all classes, but scale it with the type of hit die they have. So a magic user might deal 3d4 points of damage with their staff at level 5, but fighters would be dealing 3d8! Depending on how your thief class worked (d4 hit die? backstab rules?) you might have to tweak their sneak attack mechanic a bit to work around this system in an elegant manner. For example the thief might treat dice as if they all rolled their highest number or something like that on a backstab. I think that might be pretty cool! I'm not too worried about damage-dealing spells becoming a bit weaker, blasting is recreation only anyway except for when it has other properties that work well for the situation (like large areas or debuffs). And this'd actually make it more fun to bonk things as a wizard, like Gandalf would.

I am not really playing OSR games, but this sounds like spell casters become pretty much pointless, at least the damage spells. Or do you count spells then also as weapons and apply the same logic there? And if healing would not also increase the same way, then it would be a bad decision to waste time on healing, when instead you could damage the opponent. The longer I think about it the worse I feel this is. Combat would sure be faster, but it would be boring as hell, since weapon attacks would always the best choice. No tactics required.

Its an interesting idea but I think it will end in a lot of quick deaths. Maybe something like this could be used for martial type characters.

I'm going to apply this method, but only to critical hits.

Kudos on pronouncing "Karameikos" correctly LOL

Undermountian is the dungeon under Waterdeep.

Great suggestions. These look like they're about the size of a composition notebook, or about a European B5 sized notebook, if it helps in finding them online.

A bit of an off topic question for everyone: I'm interested in playing a TTRPG where the players are all immortal humans that have existed for centuries (but not vampires or gods). I always liked how, in movies and comics, this premise would explore themes of humanity. I was also recently inspired by the movie Old Guard. Ive though about multiple problems this setting can cause for TTRPG (no feeling of danger, boring combat, etc.) and i believe I have interesting solutions for most but one thing I am not sure how to fix is how to do character progression. If you already start out at "high level" with centuries worth of skills and attribute training, what is one or two sessions going to offer that is interesting for the player to develop?

If that graph video was also spiral bound it would be perfect. You didn't convince me about it laying flat 😂 Would enjoy it for other miniature board games I have.

That is a good find. I use a different brand of notebooks that have graph paper rather then standard lines. I find them easier to write in and also sketch out dungeons and such. Surprisingly I found thin note books in the craft section at walmart, pack of 5 thin black and about the size of the OSE books.

I really like these rules overviews. Great job!

As a long time RQ/BRP fan I've always liked hit locations in any game that I wanted to be 'gritty'... WFRP, sword and sorcery, horror, etc. But I never knew they were a feature of early official D&D. I think BRP hit locations are simpler, so not much crunch for the added flavour to battle... and having your character develop some interesting scars/impediments.

Was an interesting listen. Thank you. Hit locations are too crunchy for me. I find even simple combat to be long and boring so this would definitely not be my thing. 😅

I don't know if I would be much inclined to include a hit location table. Seems like complexification without much benefit other than novelty. Is it fun? If you like this sort of thing why not just go full on rolemaster? ever peruse those books? they were built as optional rules for d&d.

hey! i have been straying away from table-top rpgs and you video are really helpfull! and it is very interesting seeing you talk about your passions. Keep the videos coming :). (your cat is so cutee)

Obligatory "First." Keep the videos coming! I enjoy them on my ride home.

A necromancer is simply a level 10 Magic User. They are not necessarily reanimating the dead.

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