Recent content by gban007

And another thought sorry! While not one of my favorites these days, Spellfire really gave be an early feel of the atmosphere- that there are plenty of dangerous places, and lots of adventurers getting in and out of trouble, not all of whom will survive.

While I understand this, especially if making tweaks, one of the reasons I like DMing in published settings is that the players could know as much as I, and we explore it all together. They may as a result know more than a PC does, but at same time have a better likelihood of knowing what a PC...

I also shouldn't understate impact of Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, coming out around when I first started playing in the Realms, and both great games that also got me hooked.

1. Maybe comfort and familiarity, but I just enjoy the setting. 2. Everything is in, I use 5e info, but a lot of my general descriptions etc are probably based more around my 3e understanding than anything else. 3. Maybe 28 years? 4. The 3e FRCS, 3e serpent kingdoms, 3e silver marches. 5...

The best thing about using this nebulous average as some sort of benchmark, is that everyone can improve, and still the same percentage would be bad. Or some would improve, and someone who was good a month ago would now be bad with no change in behavior. And apparently you would be justified to...

I think this highlights issue with DMG in general, that it sort of serves two purposes: 1. a guide to DMing which by its nature is best suited for people new to the system or even role playing in general ( and here i feel that even moving from 1e to 5e is basically still same system for an...

Just finished second book, and will read third shortly. Yes was a bit of a step down, as didnt have the inter weaving thread showing the world, but still built well on the prior book I thought in showing how a Fifth Season impacts on the world, along with continuing to show both the bleakness...

No, I'm saying I dont see the problem with rulesets putting more guidance in, or even explicit rules binding on the DM. I already said in my post (albeit not the most well formatted) that I dont expect it to address the problem with bad DMs, as you say, they will ignore it anyway. But if may...

Not really no sorry. Maybe for burning wheel it is quite explicit, and hss no rooms for house rules, and so the system is very much take it as is or leave it ( which i dont necessarily see as a problem, to me is a bit like some video games are customisable and moddable, others arent ). But for...

Almost all rpg rules limit what a GM can do, whether things like how many hp a PC has before can be taken down, how spells cast by or against DM controlled characters etc work, how AC works, how classes, subclasses, levels etc work. But a GM can then house rule any of those if they want. I...

Bit of an update on some books read ? (Not going well on keeping things updated, my goodreads updates have been poor this year, maybe only 20% of books read). Finished the Fifth Season, a strong book that has led to me already starting the next one. Quite a bleak world/ cultures, especially...

Possibly also depends on circumstances. With my current role playing group where we've been playing on and off together for 20 plus years across various systems and winnowed out the couple of people who didn't suit the overall group (one as a player, the other as both player and DM) we tend to...

Feels to me if can't use prior work as inspiration, then presumably a new moral rpg would not have: Classes Levels 6 attributes A percentile roll under type system A d20 resolution system A 2d20 or 2d6 resolution system Advantage/ disadvantage Feats Metacurrencies And a whole list more. And I...

I guess from my perspective, if you don't care what Micah said, why did you jump in on a response to Micah? As it stands by choosing to only read the one line response without without the context of what it was replying to, is why you thought it was attacking a preference when I dont think...

Just started reading the Fifth Season by N.K.Jemison, been on my to read list for a while but also found out been mixing it up with A Memory Called Empire, so another one I'll have to read at some point too.