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I normally don't review, but I felt the need to do so.
This is really solid stuff. I had honestly no hope for this when this first appeared on my radar when Games Workshop robbed Fanatasy Flight of the license, gave it to *Everybody else*, but took Horus Heresy away from Steam, and uploaded a Talisman Adventure file for sale that was nothing but a few kilobytes photo. I thought this was going to be lazy and thoughtless, and like another reviewer said, just be an OSR clone of DND
My mind was blown. Talisman is a very aggressive PvP game, so I didn't expect to mesh well with playing nice with others, but wow. They took some peoples least favorite characters and made them into compelling classes and ancestries. The Rolling system as some have said feels like Powered by the Apocalypse, with the GM rolling no dice at all, and but you’re going for a target number with 3d6 dice with degrees of success shown by getting past the number alone, or getting doubles or triples as you pas...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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This book was a pleasant surprise. Not for the layout and art, which I expected to be quality, but the system. It is Powered by the Apocalypse in the sense that it is player-facing with Moves, but these are rolled with a 3d6 vs target number: the threat or challenge facing the player. Rather than 6-, 7-9, 10+ or whatever variant, the success level of the Move comes from beating the target number (success with complications), doing so with two die faces matched (no complication) or all three (heightened outcome or a benefit). This is a way to handle scale of difficulty via variable target number, different to the solutions I see in other modern variants (build a die pool, keep one die). One of the three dice is the Kismet die, it earns the player a token of metacurrency (light side) on '6' but gives the GM a dark token on '1'. The Moves themselves are sufficiently distinctive and flavorful so that the genre is baked into the rules. Overall the ruleset has a fa...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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# **Schneller Horror für Halloween - eine Mephisto Rezension**
**Halloween**
Wenn es einen besonderen Tag im Jahr gibt, der perfekt zu ***Cthulhu*** passt, dann ist es vermutlich Halloween. Entsprechend hat Pegasus dieses Jahr rechtzeitig einen kurzen Abenteuerband mit drei Abenteuern herausgebracht, die sich nicht nur dazu eignen, an Halloween gespielt zu werden, sondern deren Handlung auch zu Halloween stattfindet.
Das erste Abenteuer, *Halloween in Dunwich*, führt direkt ins Herz von Lovecraft County. Hier übernehmen die Spieler kindliche Charaktere, die anlässlich einer großen Halloween-Party mit ihrer ganzen Familie auf den Hof ihres Urgroßvaters eingeladen werden. In dieser Nacht kehrt jedoch auch ein alter Fluch zurück, und es liegt ausgerechnet an den Kindern, die dunklen Mächte zu vertreiben.
In *Schule der Toten* haben die Spielercharaktere, die hier jugendliche Schüler sind, Glück im Unglück. Weil sie nachsitzen müssen, fallen sie nicht einem schrecklichen Ritual zum Opfe...
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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