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Tamia Roads

GURPS does NOT need a 5e. For those that believe so, I kindly ask that you stay away from our beloved GURPS, and suggest that you go use another of the many systems out there that complement your gaming style.

I was so invested up till the point you said the first 5e

I love GURPS for it's nearly infinite amount of supplements and how well researched the lore and such are but my big hang up that I've never been able to get past is how deadly it is particularly once you get to modern firearms. I always wanted to run different settings like Star Wars or Shadowrun in it but even in playtesting it PC's just don't survive past a few combats. How do you deal with the lethality of the system for long term play?

You've actually been able to play a Kobold in 5e D&D since 2016 when Volo's Guide to Monsters came out.

An exoplanet is a planet outside of our own Solarsystem. A planet without a star is called a rogue planet. The location of this adventure is on a rogue exo-planet

just bought it!

I liked this video showcasing how a campaign can be inspired by a movie. I assume all those rules were from the basic rules, did you consider suggesting supplements that could help with the theme? Or maybe suggest an appropriate point level for a Constantine game? I'd like to see how you could do a more high action game, like the Blade movies, which are also supernatural, or perhaps John Wick/The Matrix for another Keanu movie. Or even how to do a comedy game in GURPS like Bill and Ted.

Great video!

This is great stuff, hell yeah I’m subscribing! Keep up the good work sir.

More than self contain books, I really think that all we need is a better layout in the basic sets, and something that looks like the way a competitor did with basic roleplaying game: simple rules, that can be completed with optional rules if needed, with the simple rules being a fully playable game on its own.

I'm glad youre covering this great publisher, and product. I'm looking forward to playing the board game, Fateforge Chronicles of Kaan

That slow walking mallard, is prime candidate to go on a quest for some boots of speed.

I agree with most everything you said. The only thing I would add is, they need to hire a layout designer for their books. They are really really frustratingly laid out and, formatted. Just walls of text, like they just threw images in a word document.

GURPS gets a bit of a reputation for being complicated, but honestly, it can be pretty simple if you stick to the basics. The core system is just rolling 3d6 and trying to get under your skill or stat, which is super easy to wrap your head around. The complexity really comes from all the optional stuff you can add in, but you don’t have to use it. If you just want a straightforward game, you can keep it light and ignore most of the extras. It’s really as simple or detailed as you want it to be, which is kind of the cool part. You can mod the game to be exactly what you want.

Looking forward to the character creation videos

So cool that you got to talk to him! I forgot that they were coming out with a Divinity board game! I hope the cat is a character in it, I loved befriending him. He was tough to win over but if I didn't succeed in making him my friend (or if something happened to him before he became immortal) I would always restart. The squirrel was amazing too (I loved his devotion to the great acorn), also hope he's featured in the board game.

I'm looking forward to trying this, it sounds really fun!

I was surprised how much fun I had playing this! I've never played a wargame before and honestly don't know much about the genre, so it was way outside my comfort zone and I still thought it was a lot of fun (although I didn't want any of my animal guys to get hurt 😢). And playing it as a co-op using the rules they have for that made it even better for me (especially when i was playing against someone significantly more experienced with these kind of games!)

Only thing 5th edition really needs is to take their own Gurps Diskworld magic system as main (and rules structure) and build base for new edition around it. I wish they SJG could discover that magic system for their Basic set at release of 4th edition... They also should add more character example through the book as Chaosium did for their CoC 7th. They also should work on character progression mechanics and meaningful clear examples of it... even if its classless system, there is almost no info for new players or GMs how progression works... prerequisites for powers, magic or even skills... And of course monsters and encounter construction.

It may seem complicated at first but compared to alot of other wargames its a lot simpler once you play through the format is pretty similiar to most layouts of wargames rules. I also think what makes thos game great is that its written by vertern wargame rules creator Andy Chamber eg. Warhammer 40000, necromunda plus alot of.other games. As for value your spot on is the best value ive come arcoss in a long time especially for its conpleteness. Amazing breakdown of the game aswell cant wait to see more of videos.

This is probably one of the very best everything in one box games I have ever come across. It is nice getting terrain, but I think the play mat is too big. It should be 30" x 30". There are only 5 miniatures in a faction so game sizes are 10/15/20 for 2/3/4 players, which is the lowest model count that I am aware of. I think Moonstone does 6 figures on a side. The second box provides two different factions, another bunch of scenarios that are designed as a campaign, and more terrain. The terrain is really needed to fill out the 36" x 36" game mat. The terrain is pretty good, but not quite as good as what you get with Corvis Belle starter boxes. Only four figures less than what you get with Infinity starters, but at half the cost, with no expectations that you need to buy more figures to really play the game the way it was designed.

Thanks for the mention! Great video!

I love this game. I’ve played it with a bunch of people, none of them wargamers, and all of them really enjoyed it from the get-go.

Do you really think this game is beginner friendly? The video makes the game seem pretty complicated… have you found a wargame that plays like Slay the Spire? The problem with a lot of these tt war games is that a new player needs to know more than they can remember on a first game - every one of these games need to have a cooperative mode.

This is a great explanation video. Well done. Very helpful 🎉. Do you have a favorite system? You said you like crunchy like GURPS - is GURPS your favorite?

Gurps is awesome. It is far better than D%D, SWADE, and PbtA, or any other of that ilk. I loathe the current mantra of "simplify".

I took a shot every time to said vtt

Third party content making D&D the game it is today is not the winning selling point you think it is 😂

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I appreciated having your use of the system displayed behind you while you were talking.

And that is why I play Rolemaster. Way less rules, most stuff just backed into the charts. Skill + Stat bonus + circumstance + d100 and read the chart, done! Super specific results without all the hassle. I like GURPS, I just don‘t like to play it.

Just upgraded to 4th Edition…

I started playing GURPS 5 years ago (2 years after I was introduced to 5e), and I've never looked back. You are absolutely right! GURPS needs a better & more cohesive jumping-on point without sacrificing its greater depth, and some kind of tool to create a basic writeup of all the rules you are using. I love GURPS though, aside from maybe homebrewed to hell FATE, its the only system that can handle my game!

Great review that highlights some of the pros and cons of GURPS! I played and GM'd for about 6 years before switching to FFG Star Wars and now the equivalent setting-agnostic Genesys. How would you compare the "fiction-first" Genesys with the "hardware-store" approach of GURPS?

With GURPS,, you can mix genres. Once I started a cyberpunk game that evolved to a fantasy game. Something like Evil Dead 3 with Akira.

Great stuff and also a very balanced comparison.

Yeah, I'm over subscription services. Foundry VTT: One time $50. Does everything Roll20 can do and does it better.

Didn’t know about this! Thanks for talking about it. Will definitely support them!

One of Alchemy's best features is its flexibility. As an example, if you wanted your players to have personal journals, you could simply create a custom item called Player Journal or whatever you like and place that in your game. Players can add it to their equipment list and then open it and edit it with markdown capabilities. Another approach would be to create a player container, called a module, where in you give them access and control. They can then create articles as journal notes and those could be shared among the whole party. There are lots of ways to get things done in Alchemy that I am discovering as I learn it better and that reminds me a lot of Foundry, but it's a lot simpler.

First. Also check out Dragon Breath/ Dragepust from Spillforlaget- the Gaming Publisher🇧🇻. Its a very new Norwegian ttrpg thats very special and ease of use to get younger peeps to try 😄So Dragonbane/ Drakebane or Dragons and Demons/ Drakar och Demonar from Swedish Free League- Frie Ligan🇸🇪 is just so good. Lovely art by Johan Egerkrans and their own ambient music of same name . Got " Simple " yet deep combat, magic system, boons&banes, VERY easy homebrewing of monsters, new ancestries even classes. Also as with 9/10 Frie Ligan ttrpg games, Its SOLID regarding Solo and and Co-op play aswell as standard GM+players. Still room to expand on with homebrew and official stuff, wish they had official plastic minis along with otherwise awesome standees

First off. Love your content. Could you do a Draconomicon series of all different new and new takes on dragons from Kobold Presses books? Tales of Valiant, Creature Codex, Tome of Beasts 1-3? Im gonna get the ToV PHB and GM Guide soon. But I HAD to grab the Monster Vault book! Why? Oh sure alot of new monsters and in general a new backstory, behaviour+preferences, take/ twist on existing ones from base D&D5e14/24. BUT the creators did something ( Kobold Press in general ) tgat WotC totally draaaags their heels on. And that is to add new types of kinda forgotten dragons of chromatic, metallic ( gems someday too I hope ) and miscellanious ones. They frigging added YELLOW dragons! Behaviour like a reptilian cat with radiant breath weapon ala a gem Crystal dragon! Also a purple Voud dragon! Want to fill in more missing chromatics? Brown sand dragons from Tome of Beasts 3 and orange wasteland dragons from Creature Codex. Sure all but yellows have a different naming than their colored scales but still. THIS also makes me think of using these for inspiration creating dragonborna after these ALONG the original takes on aforementioned chromatics. D&D yellows have salty bludgeoning+blinding breath, lives by the coast. Oranges live in jungles and have oily salvia with sodium mixed in to immolate and explode prey in water and purples have plasma breath and live in Upper underdark, neighbours to Lower u.d deep dragon sub species and Middle u.d 3e/4e purples. Browns in DnD had acidic breath but I rather have ToV browns which does split dmg with fire and piercing sand. Grey are missing but in DnD they are purely physical and tough with draining piercing bite, they have thanks to Tiamat acid breah but just homebrew it to acid dmg at bite instead so it stays unique.

Video is well done, but this system is not for me and I hope everyone plays Shadowdark RPG.

It did not take 4 decades for D&D to add short descriptions in spell lists. The 3E versions did.

I think Tales of the Valiant is better update of 5e than the new players handbook 2024

more of these reviews of classes?

Had a number accidental reveals with dynamic lighting that ruined sessions. Since then i am an advocate of manual fog: the GM controls what is visible the GM sees what players see, everybody sees the same, players do not need to move their tokens to peek around the corner. On top it saves hours of prep time: just drop the map and you are good to go. Not being able to manual handle fog of war has stopped me from using foundryvtt during play. Dynamic Lighting SimpleFog is a foundryvtt module that provides manual painted fog (and the module even has a maintainer again). But it's written by a programmer: too many options that you need to change for each map.

WHat i like about Alchemy is the focus on mood. A visible battlemap primes players for the combat. Less than half of my sessions require a battlemap.

ive used foundry for over 2 years, the fog of war is easiest thing in world to set up. give tokens certain distance and angle of vision and thats that. is very easy, it will be ok homebrew. just because an 8 year old can add or remove fog doesnt mean it is the best out there.