RPGPundit Presents 100 is finally here! You can pick up Star Adventurer, (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308685/RPGPundit-Presents-100-Star-Adventurer) an OSR space-opera ttrpg for just $9.99 print + pdf!
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I love old school space games!
Can you explain how exactly this game works? Like -- the aesthetic, the inspirations, what you can expect it to play like. Is this going to be like Traveller, etc.
Looks very nice! Can't wait for the physical copy to arrive, but I have to! Darned Covid!
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1129466I love old school space games!
Can you explain how exactly this game works? Like -- the aesthetic, the inspirations, what you can expect it to play like. Is this going to be like Traveller, etc.
I've explained all that in my latest livestream!
[video=youtube_share;Y7u2bvAFAYU]https://youtu.be/Y7u2bvAFAYU[/youtube]
Quote from: Jamfke;1129481Looks very nice! Can't wait for the physical copy to arrive, but I have to! Darned Covid!
Tell me about it!
Looks interesting. Are you going to do a Horror OSR RPG?
I'd probably grab this and a Horror RPG if you did them.
I use SWN quite a bit and use the Horror book, Silent Legions with it to run Scifi RPGs at times.
Either way, at $10 USD (an impulse buy price range for me), I'll probably grab it at some stage, if at least to give it a read.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1129516I've explained all that in my latest livestream!
[video=youtube_share;Y7u2bvAFAYU]https://youtu.be/Y7u2bvAFAYU[/youtube]
Care to provide a timestamp?
I don't know how to do timestamps really, but after the first few minutes setting up the livestream, it's the very first topic I cover.
Quote from: danskmacabre;1129522Looks interesting. Are you going to do a Horror OSR RPG?
I'd probably grab this and a Horror RPG if you did them.
I use SWN quite a bit and use the Horror book, Silent Legions with it to run Scifi RPGs at times.
Either way, at $10 USD (an impulse buy price range for me), I'll probably grab it at some stage, if at least to give it a read.
Thank you!
As for horror, not quite, but I had planned to eventually do an Occult-themed OSR game.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1129788As for horror, not quite, but I had planned to eventually do an Occult-themed OSR game.
Oh an Occult based RPG would be great too.
The last decent one I know of was way back in the 90s with Nephilim and that was a pretty niche product, what with you have to play Immortal reincarnating spirit beings.
A good RPG though.
Silent Legions has a very high level approach to the Occult, alluding to Kabbalah/Jewish Mysticism. It doesn't go into much detail though, leaving that up to the GM.
The beasties are very Lovecraft influenced, although it can be heavily customised too.
An Occult-themed OSR game, best decision you could take !
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Quote from: RPGPundit;1129787I don't know how to do timestamps really, but after the first few minutes setting up the livestream, it's the very first topic I cover.
There is a copy URL at current time function but you can just tell him the time it starts, eg 4:06
Just got my hard copy in the mail this morning. Looks good. Only one minor quibble, the color cover isn't as vibrant as the images in the PDF, and it almost appears as if the lady and her bot pal are stairing out into the tootsie roll center of a black hole instead of a field of stars. I realize that's due to printing choice in order to minimize overhead, so no biggie. Excellent work Pundit!
Quote from: RPGPundit;1129787I don't know how to do timestamps really, but after the first few minutes setting up the livestream, it's the very first topic I cover.
You just right-click the youtube video and select "Copy URL at current time" or whatever.
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Better than Star Frontiers?
Quote from: Jamfke;1129956Just got my hard copy in the mail this morning. Looks good.
Please post a review!!
Quote from: Theory of Games;1130020Better than Star Frontiers?
My favorite space RPG races ever! But damn, I tried running it after a couple decades and the system felt a mess.
I continue to wonder why we don't have a Star Frontiers 5e.
Quote from: Jamfke;1129956Just got my hard copy in the mail this morning. Looks good. Only one minor quibble, the color cover isn't as vibrant as the images in the PDF, and it almost appears as if the lady and her bot pal are stairing out into the tootsie roll center of a black hole instead of a field of stars. I realize that's due to printing choice in order to minimize overhead, so no biggie. Excellent work Pundit!
That's actually the fault of DTRPG (or whoever they have doing the printing). One of the reasons Star Adventurer took so long to go live was that there were MULTIPLE attempted printing tests to fix the mess that the pod company made of the cover, art and general look, and finally we gave up at this as the best possible result we're going to get. There's something seriously wrong with that printer, maybe because they have no competition?
Quote from: Theory of Games;1130020Better than Star Frontiers?
Definitely more playable.
So, in less than a week, Star Adventurer (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308685/RPGPundit-Presents-100-Star-Adventurer)has gone to SILVER BESTSELLER! That's really fast.
Be sure to buy it and find out what the fuss is about!
See, this right here is why I stopped by this forum!! Good news Pundit! Hey, I got a hardcopy of the Presents compilation for Lion & Dragon. Super pleased with it!
Quote from: RPGPundit;1129465RPGPundit Presents 100 is finally here! You can pick up Star Adventurer, (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308685/RPGPundit-Presents-100-Star-Adventurer) an OSR space-opera ttrpg for just $9.99 print + pdf!
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Buying the PDF tomorrow, I hope!
Quote from: Kuroth;1130160See, this right here is why I stopped by this forum!! Good news Pundit! Hey, I got a hardcopy of the Presents compilation for Lion & Dragon. Super pleased with it!
I'm very glad to hear it! And of course I appreciate your patronage. Hope you enjoy Star Adventurer too.
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1130254Buying the PDF tomorrow, I hope!
Great, thanks. I really hope you like it!
Quote from: RPGPundit;1130266Great, thanks. I really hope you like it!
Got it, reading it, so far so good liking what I see, might even play it! :D
Post a review when you're done reading it!
Quote from: Spinachcat;1130388Post a review when you're done reading it!
You talking to me?
Yes Travis Bickle, I'm talking to you.
Quote from: Spinachcat;1130418Yes Travis Bickle, I'm talking to you.
Just wanted to be sure :D
Will do so, written reviews in English I can do, not true for video reviews.
Bought.
Great work mate. A lot of good stuff packed into 39 pages.
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1130354Got it, reading it, so far so good liking what I see, might even play it! :D
I like it as well, even though my homebrew Star Wars campaign isn't d20 system based, it is still good to rip ideas from.
That's actually what I use Pundit's stuff for. Not a fan of d20 based systems, but anyone can convert stuff over to a different system if you understand what the game is trying to do mechanically. I find it rather straight forward to then mimic a
similar effect in my system of choice.
I already have Lion and Dragon, and So I did a bit of a bundle buy with star adventurer, getting cults of chaos, and the medieval old school companion as well. While I'll be translating what I use to a different system, Pundit is really the only one putting out medieval-authentic stuff, so for me they serve as good references that save me LOTS of time rather than having to do the research myself.
Quote from: The Exploited.;1130453Bought.
Great work mate. A lot of good stuff packed into 39 pages.
Thank you very much! I felt it was really tightly packed.
Quote from: Jaeger;1130499I like it as well, even though my homebrew Star Wars campaign isn't d20 system based, it is still good to rip ideas from.
That's actually what I use Pundit's stuff for. Not a fan of d20 based systems, but anyone can convert stuff over to a different system if you understand what the game is trying to do mechanically. I find it rather straight forward to then mimic a similar effect in my system of choice.
I already have Lion and Dragon, and So I did a bit of a bundle buy with star adventurer, getting cults of chaos, and the medieval old school companion as well. While I'll be translating what I use to a different system, Pundit is really the only one putting out medieval-authentic stuff, so for me they serve as good references that save me LOTS of time rather than having to do the research myself.
Thank you very kindly!
Also, some big news: Star Adventurer went Copper Bestseller in under 24 hours, and then went SILVER BESTSELLER in a week!
I got this tonight in PDF format, as it's only 39 pages.
I printed it out as well, as it's black and white and I have a Laser printer, which is cost effective for printing out that low amount of pages vs ordering a physical copy and getting it delivered to Australia.
I was in 2 minds about getting this, as I already run Stars without Number and associated RPGs. So wasn't sure if there was much point in getting it.
Still, at a $4 (about $6 AUD) price point for a PDF, who cares really. I spent more than that on a cheap lunch today.
I was pleasantly surprised. I was a bit skeptical at first, given the low amount of pages.
But once I read through it and saw there's no setting information or bestiary, I understood why a OSR game like this would have such a low page count.
The information for races is very high level, giving you a short description of each race, leaving most of the fluff detail up the GM. Which is fine given the brevity of this system.
I like how the classes are described and giving an option for a very random element for advancement, Psychic abilities and so on.
The equipment lists also suffice, leaving a lot of the detail up the the imagination of the GM, but having a sound and simple mechanics system there to be used.
I like how the space combat is largely narrative too. SWN has a simple (although more complex than this) space combat system too.
There's some great critical hit results, which will make space combat interesting.
There's critical hits for personal combat too, which is nice. It's possible to get limbs blown off or one shotted with a shot to the head for example.
There's a possibility to take damage to CON as well for crits, which are slower to heal, which I like too.
There's a decent but not huge list of Psychic powers, which seem pretty well balanced I think. So if you're running a game with Psychic powers, they look a lot of fun.
The skill system is very simple and has just enough skills to get by with, which I like given the OSR nature of this RPG.
I could see myself running this for impromtu RPG sessions, one offs or just a campaign that's run whenever and have players drop in and out, as character gen is super simple.
I'll Probably generate an adventure using the adventure generator in SWN.
I notice this doesn't have anything like that at all. No GM table tools at all. Which is ok given the price point and I have LOADS of SWN material to work with, which would work fine with this.
This is a pretty bare bones system only RPG, which I quite like for what the intent is I think.
I'll probably try to get a few people around to try this out soonish, given our lockdown status is relaxed quite a bit here in Australia.
Quote from: danskmacabre;1131080I got this tonight in PDF format, as it's only 39 pages.
I printed it out as well, as it's black and white and I have a Laser printer, which is cost effective for printing out that low amount of pages vs ordering a physical copy and getting it delivered to Australia.
I was in 2 minds about getting this, as I already run Stars without Number and associated RPGs. So wasn't sure if there was much point in getting it.
Still, at a $4 (about $6 AUD) price point for a PDF, who cares really. I spent more than that on a cheap lunch today.
I was pleasantly surprised. I was a bit skeptical at first, given the low amount of pages.
But once I read through it and saw there's no setting information or bestiary, I understood why a OSR game like this would have such a low page count.
The information for races is very high level, giving you a short description of each race, leaving most of the fluff detail up the GM. Which is fine given the brevity of this system.
I like how the classes are described and giving an option for a very random element for advancement, Psychic abilities and so on.
The equipment lists also suffice, leaving a lot of the detail up the the imagination of the GM, but having a sound and simple mechanics system there to be used.
I like how the space combat is largely narrative too. SWN has a simple (although more complex than this) space combat system too.
There's some great critical hit results, which will make space combat interesting.
There's critical hits for personal combat too, which is nice. It's possible to get limbs blown off or one shotted with a shot to the head for example.
There's a possibility to take damage to CON as well for crits, which are slower to heal, which I like too.
There's a decent but not huge list of Psychic powers, which seem pretty well balanced I think. So if you're running a game with Psychic powers, they look a lot of fun.
The skill system is very simple and has just enough skills to get by with, which I like given the OSR nature of this RPG.
I could see myself running this for impromtu RPG sessions, one offs or just a campaign that's run whenever and have players drop in and out, as character gen is super simple.
I'll Probably generate an adventure using the adventure generator in SWN.
I notice this doesn't have anything like that at all. No GM table tools at all. Which is ok given the price point and I have LOADS of SWN material to work with, which would work fine with this.
This is a pretty bare bones system only RPG, which I quite like for what the intent is I think.
I'll probably try to get a few people around to try this out soonish, given our lockdown status is relaxed quite a bit here in Australia.
Thanks for this mini-review. I'm very glad that you liked it!