Recent content by Fenris-77

Of the Gumshoe games Swords of the Serpentine is the one that does 'fantasy' the best. Plus the setting is one of the best I've ever read.

I just started reading the first book. Wonderful

This is where I'm at. I do not like passive skills rolls at all, and like even less adventures written specifically to accommodate them. I'm also not a huge fan of skill systems generally, but they are needed in some genres, and also for some desired play styles. I don't hate skills, I just...

Yeah, I saw that, but thanks for pointing it out. (y) I haven't edited anything there, I'm just getting the layout roughed in. I need to work on the placement of the logo top and bottom too.

New mechanics in the new book means I need a new character sheet. Here's the first draft

I cordially detest 5E and don't run it or play in it, for whatever that's worth.

That's very true, but those work because those systems were designed that way. The core D&D system is not designed that way. IF you want to play D&D you're kind of stuck with levels and the abstraction of XP. Different strokes and all that. Levels have never bothered me personally, but I know...

So, I'll admit to not reading the thread. But I have questions. None of which, I suspect, have much to do the OPs reason for posting. That said, here's a pic of what the inside of a penguin's mouth looks like, if that helps:

The GM agenda is great, and I use it as a rubric for my GMing all the time, pretty much regardless of system.

I wasn't talking about you specifically at all, so sorry if it read like that. I speaking more generally about the constant flood of people who've 'fixed' system X or Y with nonsense mechanic Z and think they've reinvented the wheel. FWIW, 5E has all kinds of problems that a specific GM might...

Meh, XP can be 'explained' as the cumulative effect of actual in-adventure experience without sounding too silly. No sillier than HP anyway. Or levels period. And so on and so forth.

Y'know, if I had a nickel for every time I've heard people yammer on about how they 'fixed' a system that didn't need fixing in the first place I'd have like, maybe, a couple of bucks. People are of course free to house rule however they please, but I also find that the Dunning-Krueger effect is...

It gets very excited, in my experience.