Recent content by Temperantia

Not very 40Kish to me. I ran a Degenesis campaign for three years, using both official and homebrew material. It's mostly focused on humanity as a theme, if this makes sense - what humans do to survive, what humans do to thrive, and what humans do to each other, the good and the very worst. The...

Degenesis checks basically all of these boxes. Set in Europe/North Africa. Dense Metaplot. 21st century technology (but sparingly available, most people have to deal with less.) There is a whole 300-page book of NPCs.

Voted 10-20 years. The localized version of 3E D&D has been my entry into the hobby in 2001 iirc and remained my only game until 5E came around, save for a single foray into Shadowrun as a player that I didn't enjoy much. I started to pick up other games around 2016, dropped D&D entirely soon...

This is a fair thought, and (official) support of a game system for one or another VTT certainly would influence the individual usability for a given group. I can give my perspective on GM'ing in Foundry only, but I've usually done non-D&D stuff here: My longest campaign was a Degenesis...

I've been running my online games on Foundry over the past 3 years now and for reasons already mentioned (pricing, modules, vast array of tools that may be used but don't have to in order to get a good experience) there is no real need for alternatives on my end. The Foundry community is quite...

Preamble: I don't believe D&D in general, or 5E/5E24 in particular, to be a bad game in principle or a failure at what it sets out to do. If played with the right group of people, most RPGs are fun. I'm currently running 2014 5E for a group of newbies that specifically looked for a D&D game...

I've been playing 3E D&D exclusively for 10 years, then moved on to other games. My own experience with this: In general, trying to pick up the rules of different games from a book has been a bit harder for me than to pick them up during play. The more different games you already played or at...

Twilight 2000: Your Alternate History Game that's uncomfortably close to not being very alternate. Pathfinder: Find your Math! Lex Arcana: A Dice Pool Game for the greater gifted. Dark Heresy: The only constant is the quest-giving NPC. Runequest: Going out on a limb. The Dark Eye: It's not...

Not a Warhammer lore expert, but as far as I understand it: Warhammer Fantasy = "Old world" = blew up. Gods drift through time and space and find a new set of worlds called the Mortal Realms. Essentially flat, infinite, archetypical planes (A realm of Light, a Realm of Metal, a Realm of Death...

Just recently I had the opportunity to get together a small group to try out AOS Soulbound. It was pretty fun, I'd recommend it! The system is noticeably different from WHFRP, it's a D6 dice-pool system that borrows some ideas from the tabletop wargame (such as comparing an attacker's and...

Re - doing it justice from a GMs perspective; common wisdom on the Degenesis Discord is that you are better off starting small. Don't bring 8 cults into the mix at once. Limit your opposing faction to one or at most two. Don't look at Sleepers, Marauders, Amsumos and maybe also not at Homo...

I didn't. I looked for another group of people that were up for the game I wanted to play and was lucky enough to find them. If your group needs "convincing" to switch systems, maybe that's already starting off on the wrong foot and you're better off not to switch at all. If they're interested...

So the idea is that there should be no impossible rolls even if the characters Dice pool is smaller than the Difficulty? Maybe give the characters then a separate dice pool for the ones that they miss, but on those, only the 6s are counted as successes, not 4-6. So if Player A has a pool of 2D...

"You're the GM, roll behind your screen and fudge the dice / the monster stats if necessary for your story to work / dramatic effect etc." If the quality of your story or encounter is defined by a single dice roll that you as a GM must either succeed at or fail, chances are they need some more...

Hi. First post here, but I have followed the community here for some time :) I've run Degenesis for the past 1 1/2 years on a biweekly schedule and we're having a great time with it. The gist is: I would recommend it if (and only if) the world and lore is catching your attention; and you are...