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Tye mechanics make it easier to learn. There arent feats or special abilities (until you get into spells later)that new players need to remember. Great video.

Mechanics are actually really good, but again D&D monster kills another IP. There would be far more games thriving if D&D had died like it was suppose to at 4E. Pathfinder 2E is another rendition of that horrid system by Logan Bonner. AND yet is likley the 3rd best selling game. But if you go look at people who have played some a lot of PF2 (and not cody) the math is so tight it breaks the game. You have to use all the mechanics RAW or it breaks super easy. The Dark Eye feels a lot looser, not freeform by any means, but easier to homebrew within the aventuria setting. Char creation is more like Rolemaster or Runequest. Lots of skills and buying advantages and disadvantages. With a little thought the profession can be modified fairly easily.

Great vid, probably the best one on explaining what this game is that I watched so far. Thank you

I like a game that has enough in the basic book. I also prefer a game to be playable with a single book, not a players' guide, GMs' guide & world book or monster book. If that basic book gives me enough to run with on my own, I'm happy. However, I absolutely LOVE "splat-books" that dive deeper into the lore. Fading Suns is a prime example. I thought the basic book was enough to get started. If I'd never picked up another, and was up for a bunch of my own world building (I typically am), I could run a campaign with just that book. However, I really enjoyed reading each new volume of expanded setting and lore as they came out. Did I NEED them? No. But I liked having them. Heck, I still did a lot of my own world-building anyway, because I have a tendency to throw out any canon that I'm not at least like 95% onboard with. Where I do run in to frustration is with games that have some kind of "meta-plot." Fading Suns being one of those. They released two out of three books in their War in Heaven series, which were meant to set up all the factions in their giant plot, including the return (maybe?) of the Annunaki. Except, the third and arguably most important book didn't come out. Almost 30 years and at least two editions later, and it still hasn't come out as far as I know. Cyberpunk 2020 had a similar thing, if I'm remembering right. It's metaplot of the next Corp War was left hanging. I guess it's been wrapped up with Cyberpunk Red, but I'm pretty sure you were supposed to be able to play through it, originally. I think it's why I'm not usually a big fan of metaplot campaigns. Though of course, that may vary by game. After all, that's what the Great Pendragon Campaign is, and I'm still very interested in that. With Fading Suns, the first two books in their War in Heaven also served as sourcebooks, so they were still useful. But again, not getting the Annunaki sourcebook, even if I was going to jettison the meta-plot in my own game (I likely would have), was frustrating. Could I make up my own background for them? Yes. And I did. I ran a two year campaign back around the turn of the century. But I wanted to see what their take on it was going to be.

Would you be so kind as to share your scenario notes please.

Thanks for mentioning it's woke, I won't touch it.

I bought it, but when I realized that my beginning character would be favored against a wight, I realized it's going to require a lot of hacking to get something that looks like balance. You need to give your NPCs professions to compete against PCs. PCs being able to add 6 to the base combat skill from the start is too much, too soon compared to a base human, orc, goblin, dwarf, etc. Consider everything in the creature section to be babies or novices and scale up. I use the Warhammer FRP 1e mana pool system instead of using stamina to cast magic.

Use Optolith for character creation. Its free and very convenient. Just a bit slow sometimes.

Great review - thanks!

Elegant explanation choomba

how did you adapt scourge to m20?

Earthdawn originally implied that the Shadowrun world was umknowingly on its way to having a very serious problem with horrors invading further down the timeline.

Thanks!

I would call you captain obvious but I like you too much to be so rude.

One of the things I've noticed is that it kinda seems to be relying a tiny bit on grabbing the bestiary and Aventuria Almanac to get a full picture of the world. I am likely just going to be doing a homebrew game myself... Since I'm not sure if I'd change the world itself... though the idea of the world changing outside the players' purview is kinda cool.

But how crunchy is it? I hope it isn't a crunch fest.

Honestly, I don't really feel like the battle game and rpg settings are that hard to reconsile. It's just a question "where" in the universe it is set. WHFB deals with millitary conflict, lords and generals on the front lines. Naturally this represents an amalgamation of these larger than life characters as they are naturallly drawn to regional (and above) conflicts. The RPG on the other hands deals with civilan life on the streets and roads, behind the front lines. Here the big concerns of the martial elite don't factor in as much as what plagues the everyman. As Karl Franz is smashing the next big WAAAGH coming over Blackfire Pass, with all the concentration of power that entails, people on the streets of Altdorf naturally have to deal with more creeping and hidden threads. Not every group of Beastmen is the Warherd of the One-Eye and most Greenskins encountered by the people of the empire are small raiding parties of forest gobbos. Chaos naturally takes the form of both subtle infiltration and ravaging hordes, both explored in different games. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the subtle and big can appear in the same setting, just in different contexts (locations, time, social sphere,...)

Black Sails had a gay pirate captain, I did not see anyone say anything about that.

I don't understand why you don't just play Warhammer 1st Edition? Just because a game has gone out of print is no reason to stop laying it if you love it.

I am sooooo agree with you. This is why I'm starting with this game before D&D

Had it recommended by a friend, but heck, I am not into PDFs (I really like having a rulebook!), and drive through...it is in bloody USA! I live in England...

I have always seen the alignment language as body language and secret hand signal kind of thing. But BECMI is by far the best version of D&D.

Been eyeballing this game recently and very much unsure if I should get it -- it does sound really great, though it's more free-flowing nature and minimalized danger/failure makes it seem quite akin to Fate by with a thematic focus and an existent setting. And I don't know that that's a bad thing except that I already have Fate and have gotten pretty darn comfortable with it... I don't know, I could go either way. One member of my standard gaming group has a low-key obsession with pirates, though I think they would prefer some more grit. Which is probably possible to work into the game depending on how you implement some things... maybe? ... I'll probably get it at some point, just not sure when. Meanwhile, the "yuck, forced adversity" folks are generally people you want to stay away from. Since even historically there was more diversity than is popularly accepted and depicted for most of the modern age, and _most_ European people weren't considered "white" for the majority of history. Including the Irish and the Nordic people, folks with incredibly pale skin tones but generally disliked or outright hated by the wealthy Anglos in Britain

What a great tool for shadowrun where the players abillity to impact the story is so open to creativity and diffrent paths the quick thinking on th e dm is always needed!

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How does healing work in this game?

Thanks for this video. It is very compley, but its very immersiv and fells realistic. Please guys, give it a try :)

Which skill is used for lock picking? Also does the plus 5 attacker bonus apply for the entire battle or just the first round of combat? Thanks!

There was deomon the fallen wraith the oblivion as well as the old world vampire and werewolf wildwest. Kindred of 5he East was a great look at eaten folk lore for vampires so the game wasn't just set in a jeda/Christian mith setting.

100% agree with all you,ve said in this vid Lee. Would also add to this : Delta Green; perhaps even more familiar - the modern era, pitched with an X Files angle. Love COC & DG ; great antidotes to the high fantasy horseshit of D&D! ( subtle dig I know)

I feel it is the definitive version. It's what is best in life.

I love this system! Great channel, BTW.

In what game is finding the missing person the hardest part? Why is it as easy as walking down the road to get to their location once they've learned it?

Very interesting and useful. In psychic cold reading (mentalism), the name of the person is often used in this way. I never thought to use it to create ideas for NPCs etc based on their name.

This sounds like the type of game I absolutely love. Thanks for the review!

This rpg has a humble bundle. This video seems appropriate

My group ran an ED campaign that ran about 8 yrs. We probably lost about 10 characters in total. ED is the best...not perfect but so cool.

I hope you make some more vids soon. Really good content.

Very good work. It's hard to find a Zweihander game to play in. (I'm GMed out for the moment.)

IIRC the German name was literally just chosen because it sounded mysterious and cool. (Das schwarze Auge in German sounds a bit cooler than the dark eye in English, at least to me). I believe the actual dark eyes in the world were only invented later to give context to the name.

Another excellent summary. Thanks again!

This is a great synopsis. I'm about to play in a game of Mage in a few days, and this gives me much more idea about what to expect than a couple of other reviews I've seen.

Hey, could you run me through a Mage chronicle??? Would love to learn how to play and my character could reflect this as an upcoming Mage. I have an email if you'd be okay with running me through a game.

Still got my original books 😎 remember going down to the local John menzies newsagents to buy them as each book was released

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I really dont like D&D much.

I will check out the rules. Hope you are back making vids soon.

I shall do buy this.

Really enjoyed your vids on this. Thank you.