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Agreed - I love a good cooking or fishing mechanic. Cozy, slice-of-life games aren't really my cup of tea, or my group's, but we all like having something interesting to decompress with. Yeah... I'm running a Pathfinder 2e Kingmaker game right now, and outside of the one character who is a...

I think Draw Steel is actually stronger than most other games for Downtime Activities, because it gives examples that aren't just crafting, and maybe some generalized way of making money, which is a difficulty (I feel) that exists in many other games, if they even have longer-term downtime...

If you're not already familiar with Foundry (just in general, not for Draw Steel, obviously), and would be starting new with either, I'd go with Codex. Between the automation and the fact that it will definitely get everything that is released by MCDM, it's got a lot going for it. However, if...

I mean, some players, it doesn't matter how simple or complex the system, how new or familiar it may be, they just never learn the basics...

Yeah, partly due to not having a null result, where nothing happens, and partly due to even Level 1 characters being able to have potent abilities, Level 1 in Draw Steel absolutely feels better than Level 1 in a lot of other games.

Can you reskin the Fury to fit that archetype? Sure. It works for the less elemental chaos-fueled powers, but does feel weird once your swordmaster who has studied the blade long enough to cause shockwaves (or whatever) can now start to commune with Quintessence and create a portal to that...

JRPG-inspired in that it leans into many of the tropes and themes of the genre, from character classes that heavily resemble anything you would see in a Final Fantasy game, to an emphasis on bonds between your PCs, and combat which deliberately tries to emulate the classic heroes and enemies...

Yeah, most people playing RPGs have a frame of reference for having MP or some other resource to spend to use abilities. With that in mind, you can probably build a beginner/casual-friendly character in most classes (Fury or Elementalist is probably the easiest) and they focus on just using...

There actually kinda is, but it's not a casual thing that you can just hop into. If you complete the Learn from a Master project, you can learn one Signature Ability from another class, but that is your character spending a pretty significant amount of time learning from an NPC to get a tiny...

It's also worth noting that by having different flavors of heroic resource, it arguably opens up additional design space. For example, Werewolves draw power from a similar source as a Fury, as such, the first time Ferocity is spent in an encounter, the Director gains a bit of Malice, but they...

Assuming I am remembering the same video from Matt, part of it is also MCDM, right now, doesn't seem super interested in another "mundane" (as in completely non-supernatural) class. I'm sure somebody else has, or will, come out with another "mundane" class at some point, but I actually really...

Agreed. It is hard to beat how up front the "What Is This Game?" section in the Introduction is for getting the point across, and I love that there are callouts to other games that might fit what you are looking for instead if you want something adjacent to Draw Steel, but it might not be the...

Sure, but that's more of a table culture thing more than something that can be fixed with game mechanics. It doesn't matter how simple or complex the game or character build is, if a player has no desire to learn the basics of the game and the system, they won't.

That's a really good point. And it also works on both sides of the GM Screen, because as the players have more Victories, the GM has more and more Malice (their meta-resource) at the start of combat, and can also do bigger and bigger effects earlier.

Forge Steel is just as good as Pathbuilder in my opinion, and both make character creation a breeze. Between always having an effect (even if you roll a 2 on the dice, you will still have a Tier 1 effect and do something - you can't whiff and go "well, I guess I wait another round to try to...

Really no W40K RPG players here? Awwwww :(

Recently, I have gotten my hands on a copy of Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader, and plan on eventually getting Deathwatch, and I'm definitely thinking about coming up with a game to run. However, I don't play the tabletop game (I don't have the money for all those minis), and so I figured that I...

First, a Gauntlet doesn't work with FoB. Brass Knuckles do. Second, a -2 to hit, aka a -10% to hit, is NEVER WORTH A MERE TWO POINTS OF DAMAGE!!! Third, if you are blowing a feat to throw Siangham (why, I don't know), sure they might "have the best weight to damage dice ratio", but you...

So I am running a campaign in which there is a heavy presence of wild magic, and I was wondering if there are any really nice tables for wild magic results or rules for dealing with wild magic in a 3.x setting. Any suggestions?

In just about every situation where a PC takes a single prestige class for its entire length, and not when they just take a level or two of it for one or two abilities. Granted, 3.5 didn't help any by releasing PrC's like the Exotic Weapon Master, where the entire point of the class is just to...