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Excellent. I'm gonna need a new game shelf.

I've just downloaded the PDF and I think you've done a grand job, the additions and changes are appropriate and tastefully done. I too think the lone rider image is well-suited to being the cover for a setting/exploration supplement.

When I look at some of the products for Whitebox and Whitestar I wonder if they would not be better suited for Core because most of the classes and extra rules seem to be more defined, more suited to variable damage, and less reliant on rulings.

I'm not familiar with Backswords & Bucklers - what is the 'tavern trawling idea' ? In B&B the author suggests using a tavern as a base of operations for hearing rumours and meeting with patrons who may offer the characters jobs. There are brief tables to generate type of job/complications/rewards. ...

We're two sessions into a new sci-fi campaign, set amongst the far colonies of the distant Terran empire. We're rotating Referees and aiming at a Firefly vibe (but with more gunfighters/samurai in the mix) and seeing where it takes us. It's human-centred but there are non-intelligent alien lifeforms...

Hi, I'm Sean 'geordie racer' Wills and I posted on the old S&W forum from 2008 onwards. Thank you for starting this forum, I tried out a range of other retroclones and OSR games (my main gaming group is very fickle) but keep returning to Whitebox.