Recent content by Nytmare

These are amazing. I'm glad that I've managed to be a good influence on someone out there. Typically I usually only get mentioned like this when someone's looking for bail money.

They can't stop rolling successes...

I am SO freaking bummed that I no longer have these trades, I was an idiot for gifting them away. I'm not even friends with the person anymore...

Time Zones can be confusing. Explanation: First session with new players from Australia. All geared up to play at 4 PM Eastern time, which we all knew was 7 AM Australian Eastern Time. Unfortunately, Australia is a day ahead, not a day behind, and in our confusion we used words like "today"...

With regards to player death, I've also had a few TPKs, and they almost always fall to new players (myself included) having to break themselves out of the idea that RPG problems need to be solved by killing something. Once the players recognize the other buttons and levers available to them, it...

What I have been having a BLAST doing, is using Mordite Press' "Vagrant's Guide to Surviving the Wild" and using it to populate the empty areas of my map. I've modified thing minusculely but the framework they have is awesome. Essentially what it does is turns overland travel into a Conflict...

Deep meaningful conversations about how the walls of the hallway might have been made and where the stone would have come from. An exciting discussion about a tub of butter and the crestfallen despair when the halfling rolls poorly and discovers that it's gone rancid. A quick aside which turns...

There are a bunch of published and community adventures, but one of my favorite things about the game is how insanely easy it is to convert concepts and other adventures into TB. The scale of what makes an adventure tick is so much smaller than what you need for other games, and introducing...

To expand on what Pemerton said, and go with what my interpretation of what the game is (less than anything specific that might or might not be written in any book) yes you are improvising, but in my experience it's far less "decide in the moment" and way more "what natural story element did I...

GURPS was a game that I was never exactly crazy about, but as my philosophies of design changed over the last 15-20 years, the game definitely soured for me. In the 80s and 90s, the concept of a plug and play framework mistaken for some flavor of "realistic" was something I would have given an...

Failed 2 vs 5 ambush.

Two players sick with Covid.

Swapped brains with a golem

In reading through your old February post, how often do you find yourself using Good Ideas nowadays?

Bravo! One (super) minor quibble: I don't know if I would have had the candle/reagent explosion happen without a failed test of some kind. I find that my GMing style with TB is far more reactive than any other game I've really played, and when I have clever ideas like that I always try to bank...