Recent content by Nytmare

My own playstyle ranges back and forth across the spectrum, though it leans far more heavily on the "play to find out" end of things. But I'm not opposed to pilfering the premise of a published adventure and using its plot as a springboard for possible complications.

My game is a written game in Discord, and I've had a couple players who look back on their adventures with rose-colored glasses, till they go back and read the chat logs and are reminded of how miserable they were.

Played D&D almost exclusively from 1980 till maybe 2010 or thereabouts. My primary campaign nowadays is in Torchbearer, but the current circulation of frequent players include Fall of Magic, City of Winter, Blades in the Dark, Band of Blades, The Quiet Year, Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast, Dread...

I just meant in as much as "We robbed a tomb and the GM made us track how many rations we had left." People always recount dramatic instances from their D&D games, but that drama (as you know) is part of the retelling, not part of the mechanics like it is in TB.

First and foremost: because other games exist. That's like asking why I eat steak when apples exists. Beyond that, in my particular world, I hit the point where I was spending more time wrestling D&D into the game that I wanted and there were other games that met my needs without me having to...

Wanderhome: The Night Market She turned down fey deal.

Throw me in on the Torchbearer train as well. It's been my system of choice since the pandemic.

I'm going to lump the various D&Ds into one pile because we played them interchangeably (and incorrecetly). After that however, I was buying a lot of rpgs and just theorycrafting with my friends about all of the games we were GOING to run. It was all mostly Palladium. Palladium Fantasy...

Do you like turtles?

SPOILERS AHEAD! GAME TWO: THE DISCUSSION The second game was NOT bad. [I change my mind. Now that I've revisited the entire story, I realize that there were interesting pieces, but that overall it was pretty freaking painful.] It just suffered from having a mix of playstyles that I and (I...

For the first time in a LONG time, I was actually free on Free RPG Day and decided to dig into my bag of tricks and bring something I was figuring few if any of the people there had ever seen before. I had picked up a copy of Fall of Magic after falling in love with a different game from the...

I'm sad that the game didn't click for you. All of the times that I've played it, even when the atmosphere was light, the background stress of the listing tower short circuited perfectly into fear for us. Not like heart pounding "I'm in the dark in an abandoned rotting warehouse and the...

Yeah, I'm not typically a dice guy, but those Dispel dice are freaking beautiful.

You've never heard that nickname before? "misery simulator" torchbearer - Google Search

Misery. Simulator. :D