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Admittedly, it’s a bit hyperbolic. The walls are too high, and it’s too narrow. I believe there is a large tray available, but I only have the one that comes with the tower. What happens when I roll is I have to peer up and over into the tray to see the result. It’s annoying enough I’ve stopped...

When I play an a character in an RPG, I try to do what my character would do. Sometimes I know more or less about that up front (versus finding it out as we play). It’s caused problems in the past, so I try to be mindful now of what play is going to be about by avoiding games that are a poor...

I think it was an eBook copy of Goblin Slayer TRPG. If not that, then a PDF of something I bought on DriveThruRPG. I’ve not been spending a lot on RPG stuff lately. 😅

I don’t blame people for not contributing back when the source material is permissively licensed. If the original author didn’t want that, they should have chosen a different license. I do think the way OGC is handled in the OGL is problematic (because the original author may have intended it to...

I have more! 🤪 I supported the Realm Works Kickstarter. The FAQ said they planned to do a Mac version, but then they announced after the Kickstarter that the tech stack they decided to use didn’t support macOS. 😒 I also bought one of the expensive Campaign Cartographer bundles, then I never...

I bought a ton of those tile sets for 4e. I never used them much because they never had the right shapes. I even bought multiple copies! Still not good enough. 😂

I spent over $100 on a used copy of Pathfinder #1 (“Burnt Offerings”) to complete my collection (at the time). I also maintained my Pathfinder subscriptions for a while just to collect them. The dumb part was canceling a year or so before the PF2 announcement because otherwise I could have had a...

It’s only too much when it doesn’t support what one wants play to be about. It’s possible to ignore those extra elements, but I like it when a game doesn’t require me to do that. I do want some since if I’m interested in playing a game since I’m not looking to do freeform RP (otherwise, I’d...

I use the following site to see if there’s anything weird with my DNS. It’ll tell you which DNS servers reply to your queries. It’s more accurate than checking your computer’s or your router’s settings because DNS requests can be redirected to other servers since they’re normally not encrypted...

This is off the top of my head: Hollow’s Last Hope in 4e (partially, we never finished) We Be Goblins Too! in 5e Winter’s Daughter in Pathfinder 2e Halls of the Blood King in Worlds Without Number The Incandescent Grottoes in my homebrew system I have some other OSE adventures I could use with...

I’ve occasionally looked but not really seen those kinds of games at Origins. There are some I wouldn’t want to play in that format (like Blades without the faction game seems pointless), but there has to be others that would work okay as a one-shot. At least there’s some old-school stuff I can...

I just want to note that I stand corrected on my post #20. I think I’ve almost always signed up for organized play events (PF1, PF2, 5e, Call of Cthluhu). which may be why I assumed all events were paid. I did sign up for a Konosuba TRPG event a few years ago, which I enjoyed, but I can’t...

Events have always been paid at Origins for as long as I can remember. I usually spend most of my time hanging out in the Board Room though, which used to be an extra ribbon you had to buy but has been included in the badge price for the last few years.

That was a problem for my players when I ran 5e. The math of advantage is unintuitive: the effective bonus it provides is greater when the DC is near the average. At the extremes, it’s much smaller. A plain bonus is easy to understand: you have X% greater chance to succeed, and that’s it. Edit...

I guess I don’t do enough 5e. I don’t recall that’s being an issue, but it’s been 4~5 years since I last ran 5e.

Like if there are multiple ways to get advantage, they don’t stack, so it can feel bad when something doesn’t pay off because you already got advantage (whereas, e.g., multiple circumstance bonuses would stack in 3e)?

I’m not really following. As noted by @hawkeyefan and @pemerton, isn’t the universal resolution mechanic d20 + mods vs DC? Advantage and disadvantage just tweak how the roll is made (as an alternative to all the different modifiers and stacking rules from previous editions).

The dice mechanic ended up similar to Traveller: 2d6 + method (skill) + approach (attribute) versus 8 + factors. There are twenty skills. Proficiencies (weapons and armor) and specialties also work with the same basic math. The important part though is how checks are initiated and resolved...

I associate it with “skilled play” as typically described by the OSR. My experience is as a GM running OSR games like OSE and WWN. I think my players like having interesting abilities in their sheets. Personally, I don’t like rulings or (lots of) rules. I prefer having a core conflict...

Any suggestions? I tried a bunch (Hexographer, Worldographer, Hex Kit, Tiled) and found them all them lacking in various ways. That’s why I ended up doing my map in Campaign Cartographer. It was more work (and CC really is hard to use), but I wanted more than just symbols on a hex grid. At some...