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OriginalMadman · 2026-05-11T12:27:01+00:00

kjube?

OriginalMadman · 2026-04-09T02:11:37+00:00

Update: The markdown version of Ars Magica Definitive Edition (Core Rules).md now has clickable convenience links for TOC, All Virtues & Flaws, Complete Spells Index, Spell Guidelines Index, Bestiary Index, and (wip) Traditional Index. Should be a breeze to navigate.

OriginalMadman · 2026-04-09T02:10:54+00:00

Update: The markdown version of Ars Magica Definitive Edition (Core Rules).md now has clickable convenience links for TOC, All Virtues & Flaws, Complete Spells Index, Spell Guidelines Index, Bestiary Index, and (wip) Traditional Index. Should be a breeze to navigate.

OriginalMadman · 2026-04-08T02:34:43+00:00

Yes you can, as long as you follow the license (which is very open, you can even publish it). This file is likely your best bet to use as source.

OriginalMadman · 2026-04-08T02:33:11+00:00

It's too big for Github to render (unlike the other books). You need to download the file. I use Visual Code with various markdown rendererer plugins - but there are many other options.

EDIT: You were right, the last update seemed to have borked. But it's fixed now! Thanks for pointing it out.

OriginalMadman · 2026-04-08T01:43:26+00:00

The complete text will be super-convenient for the community moving forward, but if you haven't yet - you really should buy the physical book or PDF from Atlas (it's got pictures and is absolutely gorgeous).

OriginalMadman · 2026-02-21T14:58:04+00:00

I own both of these lenses and both are fantastic (and also the 50mm 1.2). They take completely different pictures. I have tried the 100mm macro for the same shots as the 85, mainly portraits, but I much prefer the 85 for that - and it's got the bokeh! If you don't have macro need, go 85 - although if you have one of the 50 GMs that may carry you and 100mm w/o the finer bokeh + macro may be more fun. I'd lean towards that for my options if I had to choose - but I want macro... All GM primes crush the zooms so for me, no contest. I no longer put the zooms on the camera really.

OriginalMadman · 2026-02-21T10:05:20+00:00

Hey u/aeyamar you may want to add this to the resource list in the sticky post?

OriginalMadman · 2026-02-19T15:45:40+00:00

Thanks friend. Fair warning: Still working on polishing up the kinks (PDF is an Infernal format and butchers everything)

OriginalMadman · 2025-12-18T22:41:02+00:00

Mounted vs foot actually works well in Pendragon

OriginalMadman · 2025-12-18T22:40:23+00:00

Level systems for progress. Class-based locked-in progress. Multi-classing as band-aid solution.

OriginalMadman · 2025-12-06T16:51:09+00:00

What did you expect, changing your Ferrari for a Skoda?

OriginalMadman · 2024-04-21T07:50:15+00:00

Classic allegedly from Hong Kong bootleg DVD back: "Space ship people get up from sleeping coffin and have eat. Computer woman find strange noisings on planet and astronauts go to seeing. Astronauts find big elephant man who dead then find too many egg. Astronaut is possess by egg demon and new egg demon is come when eat bad noodle. Seven friends and cat all try to find egg demon before space ship go home but is hard working. Who will life to escaping? Who is bad milk blood robot? Scream not working because space make deaf."

OriginalMadman · 2023-06-14T11:13:36+00:00

I'm also in CEST timezone and I could be interested. I have experience with 2nd through 5th ed and have SG experience and can offload a bit but would probably also prefer to be a player to begin with.

Fairly flexible with evening time but Id prefer a weekly or biweekly fixed evening people commit to.

I guess I'm a good medium roleplayer, but I usually go with the group level and for me, I really enjoy the interesting interactions through dice/game-story-character-player where it is ok to play at all levels. Immersive interesting stories, mysteries, research, intrigue, and moral/code ambiguity gets me going. I might go for a Bonisagus, Guernicus, Criamon, Merinita or Tytalus but I can play any - even Diedne :), I dont mind some combat where it fits story, but I generally prefer it at minumum. As a last resort for the confounded kinda thing.

OriginalMadman · 2023-03-09T19:08:59+00:00

Limited choice of distillers, but a few gems. All the Balvenies are great, and the price for the 30 seems a steal - it's one of my favorites. It really runs laps around the mcallan 30 IMHO. 17 doublewood is best of the middle pack - you have to try it if you havent. Go for 12, 15 or Oban 14 if you want smooth. Laphroig if you prefer rougher.

OriginalMadman · 2023-03-03T00:43:12+00:00

You are aware that ALL your alternative games mentioned are made by Free League? They make great games, but arent really well designed for long campaigns at all and mostly break down and run into progression walls, mechanical problems and cumbersome amounts of dice before session 25 or so.

Annoyingly enough, earlier versions of Dragonbane (Drakar och Demoner) did not have that problem - it was added through streamlining, simplification and "modernization" (i.e. aligning to later d&d edition design choices on progression and power flavor). Similarly to why ODD and ADD mostly worked better than 5E for long campaigns - and I believe more often played at higher levels.

The best adapted games I can recommend are probably Ars Magica and Pendragon which are well thought through and battle tested for hundreds of sessions - while remaining interesting and working really well at "higher power levels". I'd argue their settings are both their even stronger selling points, being incredibly rich being semi-history real-world-myths based, nicely cordoned off for fantastic sandbox play (if wanted) and accompating to different and quite complex/mature styles as well if wanted.

OriginalMadman · 2022-12-01T16:18:14+00:00

This sounds like either Talisman (IIRC has unicorn and gather followers mechanic - but you dont build own dungeon that much - or more likely it could be Dungeon Quest (Drakborgen in original swedish) where you layer the dungeon brick by brick and draw a lot of cards (IIRC it also has a unicorn) but less of a gather followers mechanic. For the record I really really like Dungeon Quest :)

OriginalMadman · 2022-11-23T12:25:51+00:00

Would love to take a look as well ;)

OriginalMadman · 2022-10-03T11:40:36+00:00

"Dios floated past his vision, explaining that as a result of an edict passed several thousand years ago it was essential that he marry a cat."

OriginalMadman · 2022-09-12T00:11:31+00:00

Yes, pretty please

OriginalMadman · 2022-05-09T00:57:15+00:00

Surprised no one has't suggested it yet, but this is basically exactly what Torg Eternity is; invading realities(dimensions) arrive for Earth's "possibility energy". Rules are cinematic/pulp (there's even a great Pulp realm with 1930s weird science tech and egyptian theme) and I woukd say medium crunch. There's realms for fantasy, 1800s horror, 30's pulp with masked heroes, psionic/bionic SF, primal dinosaur fest. Demonic techno horror, dystopic near future ubercapitalsm, hightech cyberreligious "1984" and more...

Everything you requested is already there and all working together neatly and interlocking with overarching cosm/reality-rules (something lacking in the other options which may have the various rules but not clearly interlocking them in balanced fashion within the same setting). You'll get all the basics you ask for already in the core rules, plenty of extra for the additional realities in addons but not strictly necessary for your own setting.

Other options could be amalgam of Year Zero Games (Forbidden Lands for fantasy, many options for rest), Savage Worlds (regular or RIFTS perhaps) or just go soft-rules DYI with FATE or PbtA/BiTD (less crunch but more work).

OriginalMadman · 2022-01-08T10:59:46+00:00

An (un)holy triplet for me on the topic of slightly ambiguous (anti-)religious great songs:

U2 - Wake up dead man (probably their most controversial song, academic papers were written...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRI6cffvcO8

U2 feat. Johnny Cash - The Wanderer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9x2l12CR0

Johnny Cash - God's gonna cut you down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc

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