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Can you provide more details on the "Paths of Courtly Intrigue"? Like, what ARE the subclasses? What sort of things do they do that make them more suited for games with strong political themes?

Love the support for the Exploration pillar, and the encouragement for DMs to think in degrees of success. A couple points, if I may. First, I'm curious what you're assuming adventurers are doing when they're using these rules. If it's traveling between towns (as in most of the examples)...

DELETE POST PLZ, (someone else already made my point and I didn't see it)

"Here's The Drizzt Do'Urden Conception Story" Phrasing?

Here are my first seven concerns, expressed as ideas that seem baked into this and that also seem like bad ideas IMHO 1) "let's take a game community that has been making efforts to be more inclusive and inject into it a good old helping of eSports toxicity and/or the perception thereof" 2)...

I'd check out a let's play of the Dishonored 2 level, "A Crack in the Slab" (I think it's near the endgame) that I'm sure would contain a lot of ideas. Main thing of course is to give the players lots of reasons to want to shift back and forth between the planes, and have each have different...

I totally get the desire to appeal to new players and continue growing the game. And it's even kinda cool that they're going back to the game's roots to appeal to the kind of players who originally migrated to D&D from war-games. My objection to this is not so much that D&D "can't" have...

In that resolution, one could use the "party planning" structure that Justin Alexander lays out here to both frame the heist-y action and possibly seed sidequests and future campaign events.

Since you say this is your first time playing D&D, I'd say pick the class/combination that works thematically. Who is your character? How were they trained? The CoSwords Bard and the swashbuckler do have some similar flavor, but why do you think it might be important to multi-class in order...

This (sadly no longer appears to be updating) blog post provides a solution that combines conditional dice substitution with in-game efforts to deal with the similar meta-game problem of seeing the dice result while making perception checks: http://ludusludorum.com/2016/03/18/cryptochecks/ .

There desperately needs to be an Anonymous Op-Ed themed subclass for this class....

I was wondering what the good RPG advice blogs for GMs/DMs are these days. Here's examples of the sort of thing I'm thinking of: - Angry GM: theangrygm.com - Run a Game: runagame.blogspot.com And also, though it's not advice so much as just really good inspiration: - Trilemma Adventures...

I like the flavor of the themes a lot, too, but some of those feats are really powerful. Which is fine if you're going for a "superspy" genre, which maybe Zeitgeist kind of is. The "problem" (by which I mean I see it as a problem, but I recognize there are valid arguments for doing it) is when...

There are a few references to mechanics of past editions in the en-five-der ( :) ) Zeitgeist campaign guide - e.g. reference to an "Epic Tier". Not a problem, of course, but it got me curious... Given the differences between 4e and 5e (not just tiers, but also differences in assumptions...

I will be intrigued to compare this, gameplay-wise, to Blades in the Dark, since the themes/gameworld are pretty much the same (at least at the 10,000 foot level) and Blades in the Dark got so much notoriety when it entered its "open development" stage. Anyone out there have experience with both?

http://www.runagame.net/2015/06/chase-rules-for-d-5th-edition-part-1.html The series that begins with this post is pretty great.

Seriously: Blades in the Dark

I don't know DCC enough to give concrete suggestions, but if it's helpful I have some general principles for this sort of thing. One thing that game designers (including RPG designers) are really good at is understanding how a rule or mechanic will incentivize or otherwise impact...

When I ran an urban campaign, I would write up a session recap in the form of a news broadsheet (I mean it was just a text email, but it had that tone). This served a couple purposes. I would combine summaries of the PCs' exploits with summaries of things happening elsewhere in the city (i.e...

The 13th Age ruleset around Icons and their warfare is a nice, simple tool for having politics be a source of adventure and plotting in a more traditional high fantasy setting. C.f. (http://www.13thagesrd.com/icons) Also, Blades in the Dark, currently under development after a wildly...