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You forgot the folk!

Nice game. I come here to see how you run this adventure site and i like it! What is the vtt you use ? But i not understand why your adventurers not goes to the end of this cave and find the scimetar or the powerfull trident and the drake hahahaha!

Could you play this without magic?

AFAIK there is a system for resolving combat on more personal level, aside from the "battle system" Also, about the game not being about money... pressing X to doubt on that. The most recent edition is quite scummy in that regard, compared to the previous one - the core rulebook contains almost no lore content, compared to previous editions.

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Not as good as last episode.

The rhymes and alliteration earned an instant sub. The rest cemented it.

Would be fun to see this series continue - really enjoyed watching your gameplay - and the moment with Yashka throwing the gun to Elizabeth and Elizabeth blowing the 2 guys away - awesome!

Are the previous sessions available for watching?

Greg Stafford described Pendragon as his magnum opus.

That is a great summary! Next on my list to play.

is this an extraction shooter? also its cool that half of it is latin, if i just had friends

Combat "abstracted"? So Pendragon does not use the armor and body part system of the Basic Roleplaying System/Runequest?

This was perfect in helping me understand this game before deciding to delve deeper. Thank you.

Great review!!!

This is incredible wtf

Thank you!

Did you make that example just for the bit? I think I am in love.

This was a really well done rundown. I got a pretty decent idea of this system. Its a real talent to be able to do this kind of thing, and communicate relivent information in an understandable way, kudos!

I'm just now _looking into_ Forbidden Lands. I _hate_ D&D. I started out okay with it, then learned it and became increasingly disenchanted with it until ultimately just coming to hate it. For dozens of reasons. I really, really don't want to play that one particular game ever again if I can help it. And along with D&D, I have a strong dislike for games that tend to imitate it. PF is a no-go for me. I respect the company that makes PF, but that game isn't for me. The upcoming Not-D&D game Daggerheart seems very, very much like just D&D with the serial numbers filed off. I guess we'll see when it's released, but right now it's well within the "yuck" zone. But OSR-style games can often enough bypass that. They're just a different beast. They try different things and aren't as rigid with rules, typically don't push combat as hard. Forbidden Lands might not be a game I wind up playing... but it's certainly something I'm looking at. I like that it's more of a survival game, it's not about being a generic DC comic book hero with a medieval palette swap and none of the fun of playing a comic book superhero. Forbidden Lands (FL) has an innate focus on exploration and an indirect focus on roleplay -- because foregoing RP will probably get your character killed a lot sooner. And I also like that it's smaller scale for power -- as far as I've seen, you're never going to be superhuman. You don't get to a point where the things you were fighting at the start are a non-threat. But you establish yourself and can put up barriers to that threat (your stronghold, allies, etc) to give you breathing room. I also have this morbid curiosity in taking some of the D&D published adventures I have -- where I don't want to play the game they were made for -- and adapt them to another system. Mostly adapt the _gist_ of them. I don't want to copy the exact experience as, again, they tend to focus overly much on just fighting things to the death. Also, I like the challenge of adapting something meant for an entirely different kind of play. So, for instance, how would I adapt, let's say *Storm King's Thunder* to FL? Or *Tomb of Annihilation?* I'll have to bring the over-the-top power levels way down, but that's fine. I'll need to adapt the locations and primary characters to ones that better fit into the FL landscape and theme. Magic items need to be brought down in scope and made rarer and more dangerous. When I'm done with it, I'm not sure anyone would recognize the adventure unless I let them know what it was based on, and then they might start seeing the connections. Of couse, I'd prefer to run FL as intended first. It has a whole history and I love the more viking-esque settlements and people in place of the more English / Western Europe (but cartoonish) setting of D&D.

Really great video. Great DM style. I will be borrowing some ideas for my home game. Cheers for the great content. I look forward to watching the rest.

As a computer science student, Vim is definitely magic

You know it’s a good video when the 6:19 I spent here equated to the entire rest of my day learning about this game. Thank you for the exposure!

"Chump who buys all the books" oof got me there! 🤣 Bundle of Holding has Ars 5 and a TON of expansions for bundles this month (5x bundles total!) I wanted to see if it's worth picking up so thanks for the vid! :D

where did you get the travel mod? to put the char in the right place?

So... as a new channel subscriber I'll say despite the title this is actually Session 27 and is part of their journeys in the basement of Stonegarden.

Im a huge fan of ars magicas magic system but not a massive fan of other parts of it...

The French edition being comparatively more recently produced is blessed with imo better arts. It still doesn't set the tone of the game at all, but at least it's not actively trying to ruin your experience with how ugly it is.

This was helpfull. Thank you.

Ah, Ars Magica. The game that sent me on my quest to make my own TTRPG that evokes many of the same feelings and has just a much flexibility (if not more) while also being way more streamlined. It has been a year since I began, and it will likely be a year hence before I am done. That being said, if anyone reads this do me a favor: reply with what emotions Ars Magica evokes(d) in you that you most enjoyed.

I have an earlier edition. Reading this and then reading Mage: the Acension by WoD about the Order of Hermes does make your metaplot head explode.

Loved that "oh!" of genuine surprise when Amy claimed Zertorme was Zygofer...

Believe it or not, I found your video through Minecraft mod

Ah, so that's the source of the minecraft mod!

oh man! can you make more of these for ars magica?!! I'm about to play for the first time and this little video was so helpful fr, I'd be interested in a lil run down of the houses, more history and any other cool stuff you can make a quick vid on? great vid !

I’m literally over here spending weeks making a system to find it’s pretty much already been done lmfao. This stuff is based off irl magic btw

A gazillion maybe RUclips videos to maybe comment on. But no one needs necroposts to videos from 2018. If you play role games, you've seen plenty of drama from 2023 :) I LIKE D&D, but I would love to see Hasbro fail to survive 2024 as a vender of the game. That all said, I have all the editions, and most of the D&D sort of designs. Big fan of Basic Fantasy Role-playing Game. It's about as nice as it gets for price in hardcover. If you love D&D. But here it is mid Februrary of 2024, and regardless of how much energies I have invested in D&Sish efforts, I am doing what I should have done when I discovered Forbidden Lands. I have put into storage everything (all my rpgs) with the exception of my DM tools and toys and I'm going to stick with Forbidden Lands. 2 only books. Very superior hardcovers. 2 more books if you treat yourself to Raven's Purge or Bitter Reach. 4 only books. I don't see the design doing the Hasbro give us all your money splurge of as many items as is humanly possible. And Hasbro might not be able to do that as well in the future. Why pick Forbidden Lands? Are the awards not convincing enough? It's nice to have a truly fresh start for the usual races and classes in a setting that isn't tired from being used for more than 30 years. Your players will actually need to think before they act. Because all they know from D&D won't do them much good here. The elves and dwarves are not the same. The orcs are different. No that's not a gnoll it's a wolfkin. You might actually get along with that goblin. Magic only seems similar. Nope, no save the world quests, you are just trying to get by. And the best part, your players won't need to buy a pile of books.

The one, the only, arse magic.

Is this tabletop Crusader Kings 3??

Excellent video! What an amazing system

I'm so excited for this I love both your forbidden lands campaigns and Craig is a great gm.

drop the meta and "tongue in cheek" jokes, you aren't funny

Just found your channel. Good stuff, new sub.

We've had an Ars Magica game going as our main game for over three years, playing about one session a week, taking breaks for summers and christmas. We've covered 15 in-game years so far, and we're having a blast. We're taking turns being the storyteller, so every player in our group has their own mage and laboratory. It's probably the game with the greatest longevity our group has ever played.

I feel that full colour books are too expensive and quite frankly sometimes hard to read. I appreciate the legible black and white book.

#FloorHeads!!!!!!!!!!!!

Always wanted to try this game

Thanks a lot for this vid. There is so few material about this great game. Lot of said about this wonderful magic system I want to contribute a different aspect of Ars Magica very few people have in mind when talking about it. Ars Magica 5th Ed has one of the very best combat and wound systems I ever came across. It is fast simple and pretty elegant to cover it up. So much fun and thrill even to play a dungeon crawl with Ars Magica.

Huh i might have to check this out

Thanks, I just ordered this game from Chaosium.