That looks great! You know, I’ve never actually played a TTRPG set with the kind of technology that would be right for star forts, but I want to know what’s out there now

Campaign Cartographer 3+ is indeed only available for Windows. Though I must say that I have it working under WINE just fine. YMMV, ofc.

ha, jackpot now you can prep for the trip to the fae and for the use of your phylactery of phylacteries and can pretend to allways have thought of this

The world is cracked. We seeped through. Now we’re here. In Curseborne, our world is connected to disturbing realms via liminal spaces. Can you taste that emotion in the air? Someone close by is hiding. And they’re scared. In Curseborne, you are damned. Your damnation grants unnatural gifts and terrifying impulses. I never asked for this. An ancestor made a deal with the devil. I bear the consequences. In Curseborne, the sins of the father are visited upon the son. Your accursed family’s pacts and crimes lead to a web of political intrigue and lasting perdition. You think I’m scary now? Wait until you see the beast I become. In Curseborne, monsters are real. And you play as one. This book contains: A setting and huge number of story hooks, varied adversaries, and the complete Storypath Ultra system. The complete guide to playing an Accursed in the world of Curseborne. 31 playable types of Accursed split across five damned Lineages: the vampiric Hungry, the shapeshifting Primal, the otherworldly Outcasts, the spellweaving Sorcerers, and the haunting Dead. A massive number of spells and abilities with which you can customize your character and tailor their journey.

yeah! a bit like Pathfinder! i hadn’t thought of that comparison. Storypath system is clearly a descendant of Storytell*, mechanically. Outcasts are, right now, like Angels and Demons, though thematically they could also one day include things like Prometheans and possibly Changelings. Dead are, well, dead! XD Like Risen, if you remember those. Like the Crow. They are ghosts that inhabit their dead bodies. No Mummies yet, sadly, but I expect they would also fall under Dead in the future. You are right that each WoD game, and I’d say CofD game, have very strong themes, that that has also been an appeal to me. Curseborne is an approach that, at least right now, is more breadth than depth. Each creature shares the same history and cosmology, in that the world is Cursed, and curses manifest in the lives of everyone in small to large ways, including becoming Accursed. Each Lineage will showcase some smaller, unique themes as well, such as The Hunger for Hungry, or Elemental connection for the Primals, but by nature of fitting it all into one book, the themes are a fair bit thinner and less developed. This isn’t necessarily BAD, especially when we have decades of other similar books to pilfer and adapt, but it is different. I do think it’s worth the read, and I’ve never even been a fan of crossover games! But I like what I’m seeing here, and I appreciate the unified underlying systems and cosmology between all the Lineages. I do expect them to be fleshed out more as time goes on, with Lineage books to focus on each Lineage in more depth.

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Curseborne is a spiritual successor to those older Storytell* game lines, World / Chronicles of Darkness. a new Urban Horror game designed with supernatural type crossover baked in from the start. made by some of the old hats from old WW and associated ppl who have been involved in the licensed products over the years. It uses the Storypath Ultra system. it’s made in-house by Onyx Path Publishing so they don’t have to deal with Paradox/White Wolf licensing. addendum: Requiem was actually quite successful as a gameline, even if it could not outright replace Masquerade in public mindshare. but it doesn’t have to since they are different games, even if there’s overlap.

definitely a lightweight game to start with and get into the hobby!

i will say that mostly i will be attempting to run Curseborne with RAW. to lean into the Curseborne approach as much as possible. reading it over, there really isn’t much that i strictly feel i need from VtR that is missing. sure i may drop some names here or there. Daeva / House Bathory, Ventrue / Heirs, Mekhet / Ascetics. really just missing Gangrel and Nosferatu. Nos may be hard for me to lose, so they may be the one i want to pull in. from Kindred mechanics, tho, i think we’re only really missing Blush of Life (which doesn’t seem to be needed in Curseborne), Blood Bond and Predatory Aura. Blush of Life you can port as is, just change it to bleed a Curse die, or Hold 1, depending how often you want it to come up. do the same for Kindred Senses, but build it off of the +1e the Hungry get at night. Blood Bond can actually be incorporated right into the Bond system, so that’s easy The Cleansing is more narrative than anything else. I also haven’t yet seen a Blood Sympathy analog in CB, so that’s something to keep an eye out for. Predatory Aura is a bit more complicated, however. I’ll need more time to mull it over and will post separately about it.

That’s valid, we might have under utilized rituals in replacing much of what I felt was lost in vancian casting. I still feel the homogenization of powers, while very sensible from a mechanical standpoint, stood out to me as very video game. I can see you’re point in spell slots use for environmental vs combat, I think that was part of what I found interesting in caster classes in 3.5, and later pf1. I get that there is a lot of intelligent design in 4e, and I think on a mechanical level it makes a ton of sense, but I think ultimately it comes down to rules vs rulings mentality to the game. I would say it was very much on the side of rules, and for many players that felt much more like the MMOs they knew than a TTRPG.

+1 for Godbound. You play gods, so there is an assumption that it’s high fantasy, but the one shots I’ve played so far had my players tackle interesting dilemmas and generally come away happy that this is not your typical DnD. The game has actual rules to change the world, rules to handle factions with their problems to solve and assets to use and generally what you have is a great sandbox to generate adventures and see what happens when you meddle in the affairs of men. I find it super light on the rules, despite being OSR, which is exactly how I like it.

This is extremely messy, but a quick job to just change the font style really fast. Lots of things dont quite line up, but its a start if this helps. I’ll go through later and fix it up, and add it to the store links. https://1drv.ms/b/c/b78690a9060611f1/EabzhWqET0tHlxmf9hEvJioB0yY35htVXZKpaiq6Vh5GzQ?e=d2PGAX

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Where to start? I’m not sure which option is the most user-friendly, but I have really liked using Typst. I’ve come to use it for all kinds of things, from reports at work to my CV as well as my ongoing TTRPG campaign. To git gud with Typst, I started by reading the tutorial. While reading, I was thinking visibly (look up Project Zero and Visible Thinking Routines) about it. It took a couple of days of reading and thinking visibly and practicing for me to feel that I could use Typst quickly. Are the documents as pretty as Word? I’d say so. I redid my CV with Typst and I think it’s the prettiest CV I’ve ever made. Additionally, my TTRPG dungeon keys are prettier than when I used Libre Office (in part because it’s easier to format stuff, so I format more than before). Are there options for fonts and styles? Absolutely! Fonts are very easy to change. As to styles, it requires a bit of learning, but now I apply styles with functions. I use #set, #show, and custom functions to apply styles. For example, boxed text can be considered a style, and I made a custom function called boxed_text() that I just pass my text to. It takes a bit of setup, but for me it’s ridiculously easy to just pass my text to boxed_text() instead of clicking on stuff to apply styles. If you’re curious about my boxed_text() function, you can check it out here https://lemmy.ml/post/37628567/21680638 Edit: fixed the link

I use an iPad Pro 10" mostly for my ttrpg PDF reading. I also have an Apple Pencil and I use an app to take notes, write the campaign, manage my character sheet. The pro is overkill for this, and if I was getting an iPad for I would go with a normal iPad, which has an 11" screen on the current model starting at $349 USD for the current model. If I did not already have an iPad, I would get one of those color eink readers talked about elsewhere in the thread.

a beautiful VTT that has a focus on presentation. many popular games are supported, with more on the way, and the custom system builder is fairly robust and continuing to grow! i’m excited to see it continue to develop. free to use. subscription is to support the product and get extra voting rights and input into the development future.

The upheaval of the manasphere following the the Disian Shadow War has brought significant changes to magic, changes that aren’t quite yet understood but already being seen and felt. Magic is both familiar and different. This has just dropped in my notifications. It just so happens I recently read some part of Astral Ways and while I haven’t followed Disian plot too closely, now I’m curious what they’ve cooked up. Their vision of metaplanes has some potential IMO A bit too pricy for a curiosity purchase, though Anyone had a chance to peek inside?

It’s yellowed because it has nighttime settings on. It’s quick enough for reading

How expensive is “too expensive”? I have a boox note 3 and read TTRPGs all the time on it. Their color eink screens are really good. You can get the go series for 200~250-ish https://shop.boox.com/products/go7 I can post a picture later today (busy atm) of my boox with a color PDF if you want to see how it looks

In my experience reading PDFs is a really light requirement so you can do it on otherwise ancient hardware. I’ve got an old nexus 9 which is painfully slow for web browsing or games, but I use it for the exact situation you need, reading TTRPG books. Save some ewaste by digging out an old tablet or picking up one for a few quid on eBay!