Recent content by Agamon

Yes, there's a mechanism in Start Player to show how many players are needed for the game to get started. Players apply to the game with a short questionnaire, and then there's a back and forth with the GM, who can tell the player more details. The first session, usually session zero, but...

As a forever GM, I've tried at least a dozen times, playing online games with randos, and the last game, which was a paid game from SP, was the only one where either the game made it past session 2, or I didn't drop out by session 2. Granted, it only lasted 8 sessions, due to not being able to...

I was talking about spells specifically, yes.

You have two domain cards, yes. But there are five to choose from when making your character.

Oh, no this wouldn't be a reason to give up on the game. As a forever GM, I have this quirk where I like to play a new game by the book, thus my concern. But it's probably not worth dwelling on.

Coincidentally, I'm playing a sorcerer. A "cyborg" clank/faerie, that was rebulit by a dwarven artificer after getting torn apart by some creature. The clank half of him is powered by a crystal in his chest that generates electrical energy. So he is a lightning elementalist with metal wings that...

I did a session zero yesterday as a player with a group of strangers at the FLGS. Interesting group of people, two of the players were completely new, the GM and another player played another short game earlier in the year. I've played in an online game for 10 sessions before we lost a couple...

That's valid. There's lots of different ways to play, preferences vary. I just see H&F as just more core book. And I think environments are one of the best parts of the game. I see them less as stifling creativity, and more as a way of expressing and differentiating locations in a way that...

Religious connotations? Satanic panic? 60's sitcom dislikers? Fighting Fantasy book haters? Who knows these days...

Buy-it-before-you-try-it sounds very 2025, true.

From what I understand, it's going to be very impressive for an FG module. Lots of automation bells and whistles and custom dice.

I just find Roll20 clunky. This might be from not being as familiar with it as I am FG, but I have used it for D&D in the past and I've run almost a full Marvel campaign now, and it still frustrates me at least once per session. I used to think, "Well, it's free, what do you expect?" But now FG...

Agreed here. I use Roll20 for my Marvel Multiverse game, and I really wish I didn't. Just finished my TotV FG session, and it was fantastic.

I guess, technically, my 2nd was AD&D, as well. Non-D&D 2nd game would be Marvel Super Heroes

I read "Ken Burns" in the thread title. Okay, I want this now. Or at the very least, a Ken Burns odnd documentary.