Having purchased Great White Games Savage Worlds core book a while back, I decided it was time to finally sit down and give it a read. I’ve been spending a lot of my free time reading over the True20 system, and this was the first chance I’ve had to really take a look at [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 21, 2007
True 20: Worlds of Adventure
I recently purchased True20: Worlds of Adventure. It’s essentially the result of Green Ronin’s “True20 Setting Search” contest.
The book consists of five different possible game settings for the True20 system. They include:
Agents of Oblivion: an X-files style modern game
Blood Throne: a fantasy setting
Land of the Crane: an Asian fantasy setting
Nevermore: a dark, [...]
February 17, 2007
True20 Settings
For the most part, the True20 system is streamlined and fairly ergonomic. As it stands, it would be fairly easy to run a generic Medieval game, a modern game, or even a hard Sci-Fi game right out of the box (so to speak). There are, however, a number of situations where you’d need [...]
February 15, 2007
True20 (quick review)
I recently picked up a copy of True20 and wanted to throw out some quick thoughts about the system. It’s amazingly similar (obviously) to the essence of d20. Every action has a target number, and there’s a particular combination of skill, feat, ability, modifier, and die roll necessary to achieve success with that [...]
February 3, 2007
Edition swapping
After a long (long) hiatus from any form of gaming, I decided to jump back into the deep end last spring. I’m no longer living in my old stomping grounds, however, so I knew I was going to need to find a new gaming group. A fresh start as it were.
I [...]
