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Yeah, I noticed the Retro version had that too. I havent tried that yet but seems like it'd work pretty well.

You guys can respond in Swedish btw if its easier, I can read it, just not really type it :) There are some broken individual spells but those are easier to kick out (EXPLOSION springs to mind) or adjust. That seems like it'd be pretty good. I did ponder something like that. You could even...

Apologies for English. Any house rules for Drakar och Demoner Expert or 91 to make magic users a bit more capable early on? Kicked around ideas like spending extra magic points to boost the skill chance, reducing spell experience point costs or even just throwing out that spells are skills and...

I can suss it out in Swedish, I was just hoping to avoid Roll20 is all :) Thanks though, this may still work for us.

Apologies for English. There's a number of dice rolling bots for Discord but is there one out there that can do Eon dice?

The problem here is that this isn't how RPG combat works. Players want an exchange of blows with "tactical choices" to calmly pick from a menu and they want those actions to have a measurable impact, but realistic fighting between armored opponents is more likely to be two guys rolling in the...

Apologies for writing in English. I think the question of armor ultimately comes down to a realism question. Realistically, an opponent wearing good armor is going to be highly resilient to most attacks. A coat of mail makes you basically immune to sword slashes beyond a few bruises and even a...

In today's internet age, I don't know if there's a lot of difference between players based on nationality, especially when consider how homogenous nerd culture tends to be. I've gamed with people from all over the globe, and they aren't much different. Sometimes there's social questions but...

If nothing else, it can lead to a dramatic location for a gun battle :) "Which of the brightly colored containers are you taking cover behind?"

Apologies for English, feel free to respond in Swedish. The piece is interesting, but I feel it strains a little to reach its conclusions, using and discarding examples that might otherwise contradict. It references Arthur but I wonder if the author has any actual experience with Arthurian...

It doubles as a research station / shipping facility / storage facility for highly volatile chemicals / compounds / minerals that are too dangerous / toxic / corrosive / mutative to handle by organics. As the players arrive, pirates / gangsters / terrorists decide to raid the station.

Usual apologies for typing in English. Burning Wheel I feel is an interesting case, because it has all the trappings of a hard-as-nails simulation game (blow by blow combat, tracking experience for individual skills etc) merged with the trappings of indie game outlooks (character motivation...

Chock (as Chill before it) benefited I suppose from being "Call of Cthulhu but what if Hammer horror films?" Whether that works as a horror RPG today, I am not so sure about but honestly, I'm hard pressed to think of the last time I met a gamer who found Cthulhu scary either. What does work...

I hope you'll forgive writing in English: For me, the defining games were: Drager og Dæmoner + Expert. Yes, the Danish version :) While the adventures didnt always live up to the premise, It established fantasy gaming as something other than just chopping up monsters. That characters could...

Apologies for English: Having written quite a lot, the problem I find is: A: Most companies pay little attention to editing, since it's an added expense. Indie companies pay VERY little attention and anything you get from drivethru by an unknown will be "my brother read through it" at most...

Pardon for typing in English. I've had players that had ADD/ADHD and where letting them do something on the side actually helped them pay attention, because it kept them at the table. However, in most cases it's a bad idea and the moment someone wants to show off youtube videos or wanders off...

I appreciate the insights. So that sounds very similar to something like the Black Company fantasy novels. I think you are right that you have to make the world actually feel like a place the characters wish to exist in. Otherwise, why bother fighting for it?

I hope you'll forgive me writing in English. How bleak/grim/dark is your personal take on Mundana at your gaming table? There's a lot of dark fantasy aspects in the books both setting and rules wise, but at the same time, it doesn't feel as over-the-top mega-grim as WFRP. More rooted in reality...

Oh, sorry, you are fine in Swedish if it's easier. I can read it just fine, I just aren't proficient enough to speak it (and I don't have a Swedish keyboard in any event so I'd have to switch the keyboard settings every time which is a pain :) ). And nice, I'll definitely give that a look...

While "romans on the Germanic/British frontier" is kind of overdone in film lately, running a scenario that was a pastiche of the "13th warrior" film with Roman soldiers going into the foggy German forests could be a lot of fun :)