Recent content by zakael19

I certainly was confused as heck on forums seeing people referring to "playing APs" before realizing that was a Paizo thing.

If you were inspired by Errant more than MB, I'd be telling you to go see a doctor (and I think Errant does a lot of very cool stuff!) ;). Any game that starts from the inspirations it does (especially the dreamy "mythical" media such as The Green Knight) and then hits that mark should be...

When I built a little setting for my Daggerheart campaign, I simply situated each of the core Ancestries (basically all the core 5e ones and then a few extra, 18? total?) within the world - and suggested that some are pretty rare and we should work together to figure out how and why your...

Update today said they're planning to have the physical books shipping in February. I've already had the most satisfying TTRPG play of my life with this system, hopefully lots of folks who were "waiting until its done" can get to hop in soon!

JINX, lol

@Aldarc is referring to “adventure path” not “actual play” there. DH is no more “made for Actual Play” then D&D 2024 or idk Blades in the Dark is.

Sure, and you’ve got a different background than she does, but I’ve seen various people call out the sparseness of the book in handling different bits of rules as a frustration so I thought you’d appreciate that it’s not just you! Apparently there’s good discussion including with the designer on...

I believe this is pretty squarely a “NSR” game, which generally wander away from old school D&D tropes and mechanics while keeping to or extending some of the philosophical stuff from the OSR blogosphere.

There was some good discussion of how prepping and running the Myths could use a little more bones then the book gives in a Discord I lurk in. Folks eventually linked to this blog post with some solid thoughts. To quote a line that seems to resonate with your reading of the rules: "Overall, I...

Yeah, in context that was quite clearly "Actual Play" and I was also a little baffled by the responses to @Reynard ! Im glad to see that DH is doing well, and driving the additional support. I've been enjoying both of my games quite a bit, and the ease with which it adapts to different game...

As noted, many PBTAs bake this in; from Apocalypse World’s “Hx” which is both positive and negative to represent how you view other characters forward. The “old school D&D” flavored Freebooters on the Frontier HAD bonds, which tracked this with PCs and NPCs alike to reflect relationships and...

First, I was talking about BG1. Second, the module by the former BioWare dev that uses a bunch of stuff (places, NPCs) from BG1 & has some customs (gorgeous) map of the sword coast region etc is in fact available on DMSGuild.

The BG1 setup would make a pretty solid linear adventure, something I’ve had sitting in the back of my head for a good chunk of time. In fact one of the BioWare writers made a kinda “post-game” campaign that hits a lot of the same beats and with a similar structure.

If you're traveling in actual medieval-esque Europe, you can probably find a hamlet to buy fresh rations from basically every day. The "inhospitable and vacant wilds" is a thing we hand wave to make games fun. To say that you can grab some cereals and mildly preserved meats and fresh root veg to...

I was like wait didn't we just talk about this? Yeah, back in May. In fact the OP commented in there a couple of times ;). My comments in there hold true, a number of my games over the last two years have had things that ranged from casual flings through to full-on "me and my boyfriend are...