Cool 😮

Is that where rye bread comes from?

I completely forgot about the Arcana Evolved book! I can't remember if I got to use it. And I'm surprised I didn't know about Diamond Throne. I love that in the Index they put Flavors right after Types which is where they belong. I'll be waiting for the review.

I'm very much looking forward tot he full review of this book and it's system. Great videos, keep up the good work.

Sigo viendo estos juegos de género fantástico que parecen interesantes. Pero estoy en un momento en que quiero probar Cypher System CON TODO antes de aprender un sistema nuevo. Mutant: Year Zero me tienta a probar YZE porque me gusta lo que hicieron con los 3d6 pero ahora tengo Road Redemption. Existiendo Godforsaken y Ptolus, más que CS no es díficl de enseñar, me cuesta pensar en Dragonbane aunque se ve interesante. De todos modos reconozco que para jugadores que busquen su primera experiencia y quieran crear personajes, a primera impresión puede ser menos intimidatorio que la inmensidad de opciones de CS.

Como sistema mola, pero es sólo eso. Un sistema. Estsría bien más hexcrawl, más herramientas para los viajes por tierra y mar… herramientas para eventos sociales como en The One Ring… no sé

Faltan objetos mágicos, más magia, un bestiario mucho más grande (incluyendo el actual), más GM support para construir dungeons (como en Forbidden Lands) o presentar aventuras en ciudades o en sitios que no sean bosques medievales típicos de toda la vida. GM support para construir aventuras (en condiciones)… no sé. Es esperar a que Free League saque libros que arreglen estos vacíos, pero para que Free League lo haga pueden pasar 5-6 años…

You mention adapting this. If someone is not going to use this for 5e but mine it, they may find getting the actual Symbaroum books and mining them an easier route. Or just play it with the native Symbaroum rules rather than the 5e flavoured version.

I would use the 5E version of Ptolus as a guide to adapt it to Cypher System. As for worldbuilding I think works better when not much of your homebrew has been already revealed to the characters. So it's easier to bring new aspects without contradictions or having to roll-back previous revelations.

This review was very revealing...

I’ve been doing this for almost as long as I’ve been in the hobby. I thought about making a how-to-video and found your’s so now I don’t need to! My game boxes are pristine, but I do get made fun of by my friends quite a bit.

I'm interested in the setting, not in 5e. I GM it only to finish my current campaign, but 5e is starting to show cracks and being exposed by other games.

For myself, you spend far too much time on production values and not enough on the actual content.

I'm very interested in this setting as with many others. I wish I had enough groups and available hours to try them all.

Setting sounds interesting, just don’t like FATE as a system. Might have to pick up the old BRP version.

Haven’t had a chance to play the full campaign yet, but it is a really awesome setting 🤙

Starter kit is on the way! But I think they made a poor approach with marketing, since the Zweihänder Revised Rulebook is out since 2017 I think, and this starter box is still based on those rules, as far as I know. That said, the developers wanted to make something new which you can see in the layout and art of the starter kit, which is different from the Zweihänder Revised book, and they just finished a Kickstarter for Zweihänder Reforged which will come in early 2025. I'm really looking forward to that one!!!

Interesting and well-done review. Have you ever done a review of "Lion & Dragon" the RPG I own a copy but have seen very few reviews of it.

Ohhh, I also have the Mindjammer books, but I seem to have missed this one.

I came hoping you had the Cypher System version. Have you tried any of those games?

Dragonbane monsters are so excellently done. Simple, quick statblocks with a special ability and enough in the description to provide a core to get a GM started. What I'm still trying to get a look at are the new pawns. I've seen a picture of the sheets, but I'm curious about the container they come in. Is it a box, or just shrink wrap? Have you seen them or been sent any yet? Must admit, I do prefer a box, even when it increases the price.

Cheers, Paco. I'm really looking forward to getting this as part of my pledge for the Replicant Rebellion and Asset Pack in the latest Kickstarter. Love your enthusiasm! It's definitely easy to be excited by all the great support Free League are giving us for the Blade Runner RPG. It's expanding brilliantly into a game with years of potential.

To answer your question, a number of new kins can be used for player characters. There is a table in the introduction listing all of them.

Thanks Paco and Tycho. <3 Funny how making people roll a d20 (so 5% increments) lulls them into associating Dragonbane with D&D rather than adapted Runequest roll low mechanics with a few excellent modern and Forbidden Lands additions. Maybe it's the Dragon too!? Either way it's a cool game. Well worth the time to learn the mechanics and GM some grotty sewer tunnels, perilous dungeons and borderland keeps! The box set is awesome. I've a feeling from what you've showed of the hardback it might be useful for prolonged use, being less prone to fall apart. Although, I would have liked to see some concise summaries of starter text and more extra content. It comes across as a little underwhelming, like it was an afterthought-and a bit of a no-brainer when people were eager to throw money and requests. And, I guess, it'll sit well against the bestiary.

As a trans person myself, I’d say it depends what we mean by “incorporating gender identity into our games” Maybe gender as a whole isn’t important in your game, and as such it’s not a part of the codified system. Then if a player of atypical gender identity is playing it’s included by the mere fact that they are playing. As long as the GM isn’t an ass about not including people for that fact alone. But if your game has a gender based system like being male does something mechanically, and you’re not acknowledging those players who you know will pick up the game, I believe you’re doing those players a disservice Idk all of what Ernie Gygax said. I assume he said some stuff like people like me aren’t welcome in the gaming sphere or similar. Which isn’t a great image to say the least. My point is I wouldn’t say a game simply not acknowledging gender is necessarily wrong unless they’re explicitly excluding or showing animosity towards these players. People aren’t obligated to cater to certain needs or desires, just don’t be a dick about it. That’s how I feel, being one of the people in question.

In RPGs I imagine myself a warrior, other a cleric others some kind of mage, sometimes I go human and sometimes go for other races. I sometimes play males and sometimes females just because I can. And what we search for in our group is people to laugh with, and we don't care about sexuality because that's not what the meeting or the game is about. Most of us are into computer programming, so we tend to nerd out about the same things. it's a inclusive game, if you don't want that, it speaks about you and not about the game.

I picked this book up a few months back and I absolutely love it. Nice to see an Afrocentric inspired table top rpg. Not only that, but Afrocentric infused with Sci-Fi. I really want to watch someone DM this game. I need to find a group to try this game with me.

Hi and thakns a lot your review. I found solorpg genre just a few Monts ago and have watched this game few times. Good video of yours made me dicide to buy it.. cant wait to try it.. :)

It's an excellent game and well presented. The boxed set is great value for money too, I'd recommended that over the hardback as you get a lot in rhe box (rules, standees, scenarios, dice, map).

Hi, you're indeed correct about the cover having Moorcock'ish vibe, as far as I know that particular picture was meant to be Egerkrans' interpretation of Elric facing a dragon. That come from the fact that the original Drakar och Demoner from 1982 was an hack of Runequest/Stormbringer and the 1991 edition even had Elric on the front cover (see here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakar_och_Demoner). I'm very biased toward Dragonbane, but I think my boss described it perfectly saying that it is the right middle ground between OSR and D&D5e, a really simple old school game with just enough modern twists to work. Also, I pretty convinced that it is set in the same world of Forbidden Lands (or rather the other way around), since there are a number of common elements.

I have never understood why this is a thing for EITHER side. As a DM I don't make my NPCs representative of the LGBT+ community because Im not LGBT+, sure I have some players that are and they can head canon all they want but it has absolutely nothing to do with the game. So I dont get why people push so hard for it or why people push so hard against it. I dont care what others do at their table when it comes to gays, just like i dont care what they do when it comes to homebrew rules or adventures. Its irrelevant to me.

This is cultural marxism. Queer activism is a political viewpoint by its own definition. They try to infiltrate cultural spaces to take them over. It has no respect for or interest in the space (or the people already in it). They’re sole concern is seizing the means of cultural production to normalize their beliefs and shame others who are uncomfortable with their ideas. *Inclusivity and tolerance* is code for *Co-opt and colonize*. It’s not actually about sharing the space with other people. It’s about taking it over and pushing out the people who were already there or forcing them to conform to their way of thinking (which is hardly tolerant or inclusive). This guy proves these points at every point in the video. He comes out the gate insulting everyone including Gary Gygax one of the creators of D&D and literally tells people that they should just leave if they don’t want the LGBTQ+ degeneracy in their hobby. If it was just about sharing the space; then these people wouldn’t be demanding everyone include their depravity in their home games. Instead they say you must have it or you can leave. This is one step away from an *or else* threat.

June is not only Men's Mental Health Month it's Men's Health Month and also encompasses the NHS Mental Health Week if you live in the UK. Anyone may choose to take part or not as they see fit, but there are quite a few battles being fought this month for men and those who care about them.

Thanks for the show, Paco (& Chris). I really enjoy your 'dead channel.' lol

July is straight pride month!

DnD is for everyone but pedos

Gay people don't exist in my campaigns.

We should have gatekept harder.

So pandering & virture-signalling from corperations is something you like? Cuz in my perspective, it seems like WotC is disingenuous in most of their marketing strategies. They've lost my trust years ago as a brand. They're just posting pro-LGBT stuff cuz its pride month and they'd get shit if they didn't post something. If they really cared, they would have more representation in their actual products year-round.

Love you Paco. ♥️ Love your content and you being you! Always great to hear what you say. Seeing so much diversity in gaming is wonderful. It's amazing this hobby survived long enough and got enough exposure for the colourful and 'popular kids' to want to try it, as well as all the grandmas, spa-weekend set and supermarket 'normals.' I tend to think, however, this only happened due to money and a particular financial success moving a broader cultural change. There was definitely a strong intersection between nerdy computer programmers and tabletop gamers, and when those (occasionally social-illiterate) professionals started making lots of money and bestowing large amounts of that cash on the kind of entertainments they enjoyed, it's amazing (but not really unexpected) how attractive they suddenly became. Now it seems, all the lads that were busy at school trying to find my comics-mad friend so they could flush his head (or worse still, his comics!) down the loo at lunchtime - turns out they were 'always' big Marvel and DC superhero fans… yeah, right! It's the weirdest thing now. Back when there was supposed to be all the exclusion, I didn't see it being a particularly pronounced characteristic among roleplayers. Although (at the time), exclusion "from" most other popular forms of social interaction did help a lot of gamers cling together within a subculture that (as subcultures do) had its own in-jokes and jargon - though not quite so tricky to decipher (for clear and sensible self-preservation reasons) as polari and many LGBTQ+ subcultures. Lots of us nerdy fans - of games, fantasy and speculative and superhero fiction, along with various (often derided) music genres - couldn't, didn't want to, daren't, or wouldn't ever be asked to dance at a school or college disco!! It's a generalisation. I'm sure there were a few ballet bun-heads playing D&D, but probably not many. It did tend to be a lot of socially awkward, most frequently white, English speaking (because that was the language in which the bulk of the books-just as frequently-were written), males who had a reasonably high capacity for numeracy and literacy (because: lots of words, technical manuals, tables and math-rocks). Many of those males weren't much good at deodorants and felt a low need or regard for personal grooming. I would argue though, they did feel things and wanted to find love and affection. Again, strong generalisations here… …but I do feel it was backed up by personal experience of sometimes wishing I'd taken an air freshener to a few gaming meetings in the late 80s. And I'm sure a lot of gay guys found many introverted gamers just as big a turn-off as some of the mainstream pop-listening, sports-playing girls did. That's until the good salaries, nice cars and personal hygiene kicked in, at least. Then the special effects in movies became better, because the nerdy filmmakers and newly monied audience could pay for it, and budgets inflated for the previously nerdy genres. Mainstream culture began to embrace the world that had been a safe space for some once quite excluded people. The rich ones did really well with gated mansions or even private islands, but lots weren't well-off and still don't care about gymn-sculpted abs, good haircuts and fashionable clothes - unless it's on their player character. It's easy to see why they might feel squeezed within the only space some ever felt comfortable… even though far too many behave like dicks. And (occasionally) some adopt violently nasty political values that can never be condoned or supported - just treated like any destructive addiction. Identity is a massive divider now. It might be the biggest. Politically, there's loads of money going into the maintenance of the division of us: the 99% - the ultimate in distraction - so that abhorrent and insupportable wealth inequality can be perpetuated. It's the same 'divide and rule' politics implemented throughout all the colonial and imperial systems in history. Shame it's so easily achievable, even among people who spend hours of their spare time worldbuilding!!

Twitter was always a sewage with the worst scum swimming in it. Now it's getting worse with every day

dead channel says obvious most bland thing for views in pride month. Brave and stunning.

Pkease, play game with terrain and fortresses . I have a lots of questions about movement and fighting in fortress. And rules are not clear enough about some topics there.

Love to see ‘The Warriors’ as inspiration for this - that’s all I had in my head up to this point and was hoping that was the vibe

I just wanted to add, as someone who recently picked up PRESSURE & for those of us who like digital format... the Kindle format is fabulous. Osprey built a native Kindle format book rather than forcing the PDF-on-kindle format, which some other publishers have done with Kindle. What does this mean? You can re-size and re-flow the font on your digital device. This means, it is as readable on a mobile phone as it is on an iPad because you can simply resize the text. Yes, the small form factor for Osprey Games' RPGs is FANTASTIC, but the native Kindle books are awesome. You can tell that Osprey are experienced book publishers, not just RPG publishers. 100% pure class, IMO. Also, the game... Same base rules as THOSE DARK PLACES, but modified for more extended play & providing more setting information as well. It's basically a one-dice system where you roll a d6, add your base attribute/skill, and try to exceed a target number (with "7" being the average requirement for success). Very simple, very light, very fast. The skill section isn't long, and the game encourages you to make up skills as you see fit, which is nice. Some people (us Americans) are puzzled by Ranged combat requiring training to use the skill... because many of us know how to handle firearms, whereas Mr. Hicks comes from a background where he wouldn't know what to do with a gun if someone handed one to him. (So... in my house rules, I'd just say that you can use Pistols untrained, and all else requires training. It's a simple compromise, anyway.) It's all very simple, very rules light. I don't know how it'll take to extended campaign play, but it does feel like a good game that you can pick up and just play. And not everything needs to be over-wrought and overly complicated in the gaming space, IMO.

I'm very interested in this game but with the exchange rate it will cost me around $50 (including shipping). I could print the PDF for less but I really love books so I don't think I would like to have it as a PDF. If it was a bit cheaper, i would already own it because it looks really fun. Right now I just can't spend the $50. Maybe someday.

Thank you for this video :) However, I am surprised not to see an Egyptian army in the factions offered in the game. Is this a deliberate oversight?

Fantastic video. Thank you for making it.

Thanks Paco! Quite curious myself about this, so it's nice to see your quick pagethru. It's on my 'complete the set' list anyway - lol - but (like you) I really liked the first three books. Still haven't played the fourth, Elysium, but when I learned of this it seemed they'd make quite good companions for each other. This book does appear a little thin however, especially by comparison with the other books. It's not got many more pages than The Gray Death adventure book, which seems incongruous considering the vastness of the expansion into space. Maybe there'll be an adventure to expand it with some ships and shuttles etc…? My Mutant Year Zero - Zone Wars (skirmish game) boxes should be arriving today, so I'm certain I'll be excitedly distracted from my schedule and diving into those - then doing the shelving shuffle to fit more in the house!

smegmata is the gunk that surrounds poo occasionally when it comes out. smegma is penis cheese, i always assumed that was the origin of the word, especially how they often refer to someone as floating in the toilet bowl of humanity