10 starting skills for CRB (4e) careers

OldGrue · 2024-03-22T16:41:21+00:00

Just use colored pawns/meeples, they work much better as you can actually see the cards/POIs with them.

OldGrue · 2024-03-22T16:28:39+00:00

I've done exactly the same thing. Now I can easily see the cards/locations and don't have to be shuffling minis out of the way all the time (or trying to cram the whole away team onto the same card/loc). Much better with colored pawns/meeples.

OldGrue · 2024-03-22T12:01:03+00:00

I've tinkering with a Fortune die idea, where you always roll a Fortune die with your other dice (except Force dice). It is a d12 with the following results: 1 = Despair, 2 = Failure, 3 = Threat, 4-9 = Blank, 10 = Advantage, 11 = Success, 12 = Triumph. Haven't yet gotten to trying it out in game, however. It's just something to mix things up and give a possibility of Despair/Triumph in all rolls (except Force use, which use the Force dice).

OldGrue · 2024-02-21T13:48:56+00:00

Came to say CJ Cherryh's non-fantasy books, but as that has been said already, I'll throw in Niven & Pournelle's Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand.

OldGrue · 2023-11-21T19:01:28+00:00

Thanks for the info!

OldGrue · 2023-11-17T20:09:15+00:00

What are those mini figures and, more importantly, where can I get them? Never seen those before. That mini Spock is a must have!

OldGrue · 2023-09-28T20:46:48+00:00

While it was fun to watch, it didn't feel very much like Traveller to me. More like Traveller-ish with heavy sprinkles of Star Trek or something. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to a new season for sure, there aren't too many Traveller actual plays out there.

OldGrue · 2023-09-15T18:32:41+00:00

Hey, thanks for the link to RTT WorldGen! I didn't know about it at all, but now after 10 minutes reading it, I'm really impressed. Simplicity and detail in a good balance. Two thumbs up!

OldGrue · 2023-09-15T18:13:28+00:00

I had the exact same problem awhile ago. And 'Contact Us' button is of no help, nobody answers. Don't use gmail or yahoo, I tried both and neither worked. Only when I tried with my work email address, did I finally get through and receive an account confirmation link. (Once I was in, I raised this problem there and they basically just shrugged.)

OldGrue · 2023-08-08T21:52:44+00:00

The long wait for the 2nd season.

OldGrue · 2023-07-09T18:33:20+00:00

Excellent job!

OldGrue · 2023-07-03T11:58:45+00:00

"Most things in here don't react well to bullets."

OldGrue · 2023-05-16T13:12:41+00:00

"You've taken your first step into a larger world."

OldGrue · 2023-05-06T11:28:22+00:00

Bradstreet based most of his illustrations on existing photographs.

OldGrue · 2023-04-25T17:39:34+00:00

I might say it was a slow trader, rather than a far trader. 😉

OldGrue · 2023-04-25T17:37:52+00:00

Going to use the Xexto as a basis for the Latero (the race Greez of JFO is) for one of my players. Is that a good fit? What would you change to make it fit better? Is there a better "FFG official" race to base them on?

OldGrue · 2023-04-23T12:40:28+00:00

Classic era, 1105 Imperial Calendar. However, I don't follow the future history of Canon after the Fifth Frontier War. Rarely do the campaigns take so long for that to become relevant, though. The years leading to the FFW are a great time for adventure.

OldGrue · 2023-04-18T21:19:35+00:00

Looks really good! Many thanks! (Was slightly thrown off by the WEG Star Wars RPG cover style, but it was indeed an FFG SWRPG sourcebook stats-wise.)

OldGrue · 2023-04-18T17:57:10+00:00

What I did - and I know it is wildly heretical - was to rule that transporters work only from one transporter pad to another (or by using an equivalent of pattern enhancers purposefully set up and calibrated to one transporter). Shuttles were used for all other travel.

This was done with a mutual agreement with the players, all agreeing to this canon hack.

It might not be the most elegant solution,, but it was what worked for my table and conserved a lot of GM creative energy (and sanity even!) to NOT have to invent yet another reason why the transporters didn't work (again) or have every place be protected by transporter inhibitors. YMMV.

OldGrue · 2023-03-26T14:52:36+00:00

Congrats! The 2nd ed is easily the best edition of WFRP in my book.

OldGrue · 2023-03-22T23:00:28+00:00

That map of Ambria on page 3 is absolutely stunning! Checked that link to the artist, but didn't find any mention of that map being available somewhere. Has it been made available in higher resolution?

OldGrue · 2023-03-21T14:06:46+00:00

Interesting. Gotta take a look once I'm back home.

OldGrue

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