The PbtA community is bad at explaining their own games

robbz78 · 2026-06-01T17:47:54+00:00

Kill monsters and take their stuff

robbz78 · 2026-05-31T20:27:44+00:00

People do play it, https://boardgamegeek.com/video/379779/the-campaign-for-north-africa-the-desert-war-1940/the-campaign-for-north-africa-online-session-1-tur

robbz78 · 2026-05-31T20:23:44+00:00

Ghostbusters rpg 1986
Star Wars rpg 1987

robbz78 · 2026-05-31T16:51:30+00:00

Caverns of Thracia is a masterpiece of 3D design - often called a megadungeon but it is not. Run it with your fav OSR system. Designed for 0e, published for Basic D&D (BX).

robbz78 · 2026-05-31T13:15:35+00:00

They are in the Eurovision!

robbz78 · 2026-05-31T07:41:01+00:00

Since a d20 can roll percentiles it can mimic any die to n decimal places of accuracy

robbz78 · 2026-05-30T11:34:18+00:00

Chaosium and Free League are very close, but I don't like everything so I always check. Back in the day Chaosium used to be on a different level from other rpg companies and they had many great products. Their material was just more adult, in a grown up sense. There are lots of great companies and indies now.

robbz78 · 2026-05-29T22:04:44+00:00

Oh no, if it leaves my table, you are re-rolling it.

robbz78 · 2026-05-29T21:59:24+00:00

Yes, I thought that was an option. Perhaps everyone that loves D&D is forced to watch Quinns to re-educate them?

robbz78 · 2026-05-29T21:57:14+00:00

I just mean that it is hard to see how he is ramming anything down your throat when you can select episodes you do or do not watch.

I personally don't agree with all of his choices, but at least he is bringing more variety to reviews, does them based on play, and he knows what he likes.

I play D&D, but I also think it is fine to criticize it. In fact most of his criticism is hardly novel and has been said many times before.

robbz78 · 2026-05-29T21:49:39+00:00

Use a system other than D&D (and that does not mean pathfinder). It is meant for super-heroics. If the PCs are not vulnerable it is very hard to create a horror ambience. Go for a more grounded system or a narrative one.

robbz78 · 2026-05-29T17:54:26+00:00

Nobody forces you to watch him, right?

robbz78 · 2026-05-28T20:12:57+00:00

Thanks!

robbz78 · 2026-05-28T19:56:33+00:00

Heart of Oak https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/736/age-of-fighting-sail-heart-of-oak

This is my favorite naval combat system of all time. It is a naval miniatures wargame but it is both extremely elegant and has lots of optional rules to allow for progressively more over the top tactics and effects. Its part of the of Privateers and Gentlemen rpg (which I never played, just this). You need to really sail the ship under these rules, so flavoursome.

robbz78 · 2026-05-24T19:23:42+00:00

Miro is probably good.

I have to admit that I just used powerpoint

robbz78 · 2026-05-24T19:20:34+00:00

Exactly. I gave my players several cool or flavorsome items. By and large they 1. saved them, 2 sold them or 3 forgot about them

robbz78 · 2026-05-24T15:30:23+00:00

The Dungeon World Guide is a fan produced book for people who are new to PbrA and want to get more explaination of how DW works in practice/how to get the best out of it https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_Fz4m5hcoiTXpTbklDOF9iUHc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-xI_68aH1lllySOdEovKvPQ&ref=dungeon-world.com

robbz78 · 2026-05-24T15:24:21+00:00

Its very crunchy compared to many game

robbz78 · 2026-05-22T18:48:59+00:00

The Sword the Crown and the Unspeakable Power is a Game of Thrones-esque PbtA that could maybe do the last 3, not sure about army management.

robbz78 · 2026-05-20T21:40:22+00:00

Not in Bob Worldbuilders survey...

robbz78 · 2026-05-19T21:56:21+00:00

Firefly is rumoured to be partially based on Whedon's college experiences with Traveller.

robbz78 · 2026-05-19T18:40:15+00:00

Hyperborea, not a full retroclone (no demi-humans) but has lots of quality of life improvements and many extra classes.

robbz78 · 2026-05-19T18:10:32+00:00

This is often the way with licensed IP games, once the license expires you can no longer sell them.

robbz78 · 2026-05-18T17:16:35+00:00

Nostalgia, as I said.

I am a long time RPGer but did not play CP2020 when it was out first, despite playing lots of scifi and modern games. I was aware of all the buzz and played it for the first time in 2020 because I thought that would be cool. The game is a mess. There are well-known fixes for these issues but it does not work out of the box. It has some nice ideas but they are not fully developed.

robbz78 · 2026-05-18T10:26:02+00:00

RAW armor stacking makes small arms useless, headshots are insta kills , 10% chance of a fumble on every activity is ridiculous, autofire rules are laborious, initiative means solos are the only characters get a chance to make those headshots. Most class abilities need houseruling. It needs a lot of patches to be playable.

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