Arms and Armor Compendium

I appreciate that. I would like to use more pay-what-you-want on future projects, but it is frankly disheartening when you spend hundreds of hours on a product only to see that less than half of the people that download it, are actually paying for it (estimated based on number of downloads vs. net sales). It might be that they have never used it in actual play, but if you've read it and appreciated the ideas, maybe throw the author a couple of bucks regardless? We don't pay for our books, video games or cinema tickets retroactively based on whether we read it, played it or actually went to the cinema, right?

I get your point and why you like PWYW, and as a consumer I do to, but I think there are too many consumers that see the PWYW-tag and think "free stuff" and never even consider paying the author, even if they base their entire next campaign on their content. I don't know, I am still conflicted on this issue and am still trying to figure it out.

I am working on a hunting...See more compendium for Twilight 2000 right now that will most likely be PWYW. If I can finally get clearance to release my Twilight supplements as Foundry VTT modules, they will also be pay-what-you-want, and I'll keep considering this model for all my future projects as well.

Honestly, if there was another way to fully preview the item, I'd go for it... maybe a full preview with massive watermarks over the pages or something like that?

At least people would have to live with the annoyance of those.

The 1-3 page previews shown on most products here are usually not enough for me to get a decent opinion on whether or not the product is for me. Sure, you can easily see the overall quality, but you can't really see if you agree with the changed/expanded rules or not.

Like I said, I've paid for all the T2k modules you've made so far.

Turns out I won't be playing a Forgotten Lands campaign any time soon, so now I'm out the full cost of the base game with no real use for it. :/

But I'm looking forward to your hunting module for T2k! My players just ran into a major gold-mine of loot (due to massively lucky rolls on the TwilightLoot table, they now have an M113 APC with a .50 cal, an M151 Jeep and they found two containers full...See more of loot. Lucky bastards), but they're basically starving...

EDIT: As a side note, some of your products are tagged as authored by Geir Ove Thorsveen and others as authored by Geir Thorsveen. That makes it hard for people who like your products to see all your products. Might want to fix that if possible. (Submachineguns, Sniper Rifles and Centerfire supplement are under Geir Thorsveen, the rest under Geir Ove Thorsveen)

Yes this is made for Forbidden Lands. I'm not sure why you see it tagged as Symbaroum, I'll look into it.

It looks like everything (or at least those that I have checked) Forbidden Lands Workshop suddenly has the "Other Systems" and "Symbaroum" tags in the metadata. If you try searching for Forbidden Lands under rules systems in the side bar, nothing shows up. This looks like a database error on the part of drivethrurpg, I'll see if I can report it. Thank you for letting me know.

Hi, thank you for downloading and checking out this compendium. In these rules the buckler is counted as a melee weapon with the "parrying" feature. As such it is found under the melee weapons table and under melee weapons in the crafting table. The tower shield is in the crafting table, but again it is under these rules not actually counted as a shield, it is condsidered a portable cover. There is no entry for the tower shield in the weapons or shield table, but its weight, cost and rules are described in the appendix on p.24, since it is counted neither as a shield or a weapon in these rules.

I've had very limited time to playtest this because of the pandemic, but I've had concerns raised that the buckler is a bit weak in its current state. It is usually preferable to either pick a small shield or a short sword for your off-hand needs. One of the reasons the buckler was popular in history was that it was a good self defence option, that wouldn't raise to many eyebrowes in public when...See more going about ones business. I think this isn't much of a concern in even the most civilized of towns in the Forbidden Lands, you'd expect to see people clomping around in armor and with proper shields. I will probably have a look at the buckler again once I get some more testing done.

Ah, thank you for the clarification and reply. Having a good time with this and appreciate the effort. Been adding a lot to my Foundry VTT campaign, making a few modifications here and there to suit my liking. It's been a big help.