Broken Compass - RPG Review 

If D&D 5E was your introduction to roleplaying, then Advantage/Disadvantage means rolling an extra die. For the rest of us, and those who don't play D&D 5E, they're just words and don't automatically mean anything mechanical. WoTC doesn't own the terms and telling other companies to surrender them to WotC is just dumb. Don't believe or give in to their hype.

Just found your channel. I’m a fan of your style.

Loving your work. It’s criminal you don’t have more subs. Please keep these coming!

Great video, you hit the right points. Regarding the VTT support you’re right, but you need to know that the game is to unknown in the wide mass, we only could get a few DEVs, who do not know BC, to build a minimum version for to be able to play in Foundry. There was no interest from 2LM, no money and no DEV was to be found playing BC. So it’s the best we could get and we’re happy to have the basic functionality, which works well.

Fun review with great production values and special effects. Thanks! From what you said about advancement and what I read of the rules (though I could be mistaken), it sounds like advancement might have come faster than expected in the games you played? I thought advancement shouldn't happen every session or every other session. That said, I could be misremembering. I only ever played a one shot which didn't involve that mechanic. This is such a high octane game that I would only really want to play it face to face maximise the energy at the table. But I can see how VTT support matters these days. I do love the fact that Broken Compass is all about playing big damn heroes who do cool things and fail forward, like in all fun adventure movies. I haven't found another game that captures that spirit as well. One downside: it's relatively unknown and unavailable for physical purchase. That limits the ability to bring this gem to the table. I want to try and run it as a club or convention one shot though. Players should have a blast.

Epic review! So glad to see it reprinted! As a rookie in ttrpg,I d be really excited if you can recommend some rpgs that in theme like this but more Long term storyline or something that suspense.

great review, good coverage of pros and cons and a good bottom line about what type of adventure game this does well or should try another system.

Are you ever going to cover Outgunned?

Great review!, I really want to learn about the system. A little comment, you say that Advantage is used in Broken Compass to mean "add a bonus die", and you mention that you dont like the terminology because D&D use it to mean "a reroll". But, if you are talking about 5e, that is exactly how advantage work, you roll 2 dice (so "adding a dice") and take the highest (or lowest if disadvantage), I have seen players that do it more for a "reroll" as you said, and maybe that is where your confusion comes from, but RAW, its "adding a dice". I am just discovering your channel and really like the diversity of reviews, will follow closely!

Sounds like a great system for pulp one or two shots

I suspect the skills are broad where the game doesn't care too much and specific where it does. How often do you need to roll to know stuff in an action adventure game? Indie is a really knowledgeable guy; but that knowledge mostly only works to help him get *to* a conflict, rarely *through* a conflict.

I was wondering what are your thoughts about Savage Worlds, for me it's great to run pulp adventures. Great review! ❤️

Wow that does sound fun. I like the coin system.

Excellent comparison with the West End Star Wars system

Thank so much for making this! I had no idea how to play until now, I hope to one day find a group to play with!

Hey, from what you say you like I can imagine you would really love Monster of the Week. It´s a Powered by the Apocalypse game which is based on the idea of playing a group of Monster Hunter in a World that is somewhere between Supernatural and X-Files. It´s one of my favorite games of all time and I can´t recommend this enaugh to everyone.

Really great video. Nice, balanced review!

" I think it could've been really cool if you had a light system where the GM can use coins to do things like save the villain from certain death or add a new complication to the scene." You should have a look at "Don't rest your head.", which has a system like that in it and is also pretty rules light. Certain test outcomes can give the players tokens they can use to heal up or improve their rolls, but if they use them, the GM gets those tokens that they can then use to add difficulties or change the flavor of a test's outcome. The system also has one of the more unique dice rules I've seen in my system collection so far.

This was a fantastic review, thanks JC. I was thinking of buying this system and am definitely going to now I understand it better.

I wonder... do you know the Cogent roleplay system? I would be interested to hear your opinion on that one.