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That I actually played a session of was Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

I appreciate the literal answer to my joke comment from a month ago. :)

Seems weird to change my methodology so drastically after all these years of lying to try and get them to make what I like.

I'm fine with them changing the name. That doesn't impact the fact that "Warrior of Intoxication" sounds brutally terrible. :)

Picked up the Stormlight RPG core package at the local game store last week. As a 5e evolution and a source guide to the Stormlight Archive, it's pretty great. And I already have some RPG novices interested in trying a game because of their attachment to the source material.

This is a total tangent (apologies in advance), but this is actually a setting element in my 5e games. Gaining levels in a single class becomes harder and harder as a character advances in tier, to the point where breaking through to level 17 (Tier 4) is something that only happens to less than...

Fun thread, BTW. I remember you participating a lot in the setting thread I made last year, I'm thinking of some ideas right now to attempt to return the favor.

Out of curiosity, is this setting intended to be system-neutral, or is there a lean towards a particular system or type of system? Also, not a ton of specific demographic information, like races and cultures...is that intentional to allow the city to be system-neutral? Or just haven't gotten...

So, just reading through this and attempting to summarize. Probably missing details. Ellidam is a fantastical solarpunk alpha city (a la New York, London), with elemental rifts providing sustainable energy for magitech type effects throughout the city. The city has a long history, with many...

I would agree with this. Even if you were able to do a "follow the story" game for the majority of the game, Tier 4 makes it extremely easy to just ignore that stuff if the players want.

I think quite a few players have either 0 or 1 table, and D&D is by far the easiest game to find a whole table for. Playing a stack of other games requires a table that is willing to be flexible and try new things; there are plenty of gamers like that, but it's definitely not everyone...

Makes sense....book 5 definitely suggests a lot of historically relevant eras. The long time period between the Final Desolation and the Recreance, just as one example, could fit in lots of campaign ideas.

Generally, when I misplace my orcs, I try and think back as to where the last place was I remember having them.

Something like an Era 1.5 (last vestiges of the Empire being pushed away, Elendel just an up-and-coming city) could be an interesting frame.

For sure. Obviously, for elements you're generally looking at either the Platonic 4 (fire, air, earth, water) or the Chinese 5 (wood, metal/gold, fire, water, earth); trying to merge them together weakens a lot of their associations and symbolism. Possibly the green area could be the...

I'm not actually worried about the balance; the Stormlight game seems to work fine even if you make a character that doesn't touch any of the Radiant abilities. I don't see why Mistborn would be different. I'm sure a motivated group could find a campaign frame for Era 1 Mistborn, but I do feel...

Makes sense. In game terms, Vin also just has lots of "protagonist energy" and levels up very quickly, which is why here ability spread is good, plus she just makes a lot of Complication rolls. :) Definitely excited for the Twinborn rules, I always thought they felt the most "PC-like" between...

Oh, for sure. I'm working on the bones of a high-level game right now. The core assumption is that high-level characters are primarily focused on extraplanar concerns, and that hundreds of Prime worlds feed into the planes. So a Tier 4 character is literally a one-in-a-million occurrence, but...

Sure. And the game itself isn't intended to be combat-balanced like a 5e, so it's easier to have a Misting like Breeze control a scene even when there's a Mistborn present. I'd also assume they'd want to make Mistborn accessible at low-level (like Vin), so I'm thinking there's a key talent...

Total tangent, but you really shouldn't have many prisons in a high-level game. By that point, raise dead and resurrect are common enough that high-level "prisoners" are just killed and then have their remains stored in somewhere secure if they're needed. Or, you're just focusing on the...