Andvari's latest activity

The Kickstarter is now live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/quest-for-the-unknown-an-osr-adventure-path

He's doing this instead of finishing Winds of Winter, so he knows the risks.

I've created a rough outline for the campaign: 1. Book One. The Caverns of Anamosa. The party begins exploring a dungeon that was once...

In my experience. 1. Players moving (as in geographically IRL). 2. GM burnout. I often hear scheduling being a major concern, but for...

I have been playing--mostly GMing--ttrpgs since 1981. I've run and played numerous games: D&D (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th), Call of Cthulhu...

Sounds pretty standard GM fare to me.

It means that applying techniques like small world, obdurium walls, false choices, or Schrodinger's maps can be justified if the GM is...

Also, we should not rely on people who are upset, put out, or otherwise emotionally engaged to get language correct. The player calling...

The Void happened when they were already trapped in the faewild. The PCs were looking for someplace that was out of the plane to do...

It may be one of those player kneejerk reactions that are kind of inexplicable. You can beat their PCs up, even kill them, and some...

Being honest, I bristle when players act like I am trying to screw them over instead of trusting me. We have bene playing together since...

This is one of those tricks of how normal procedures are practiced, I suppose. If the players don't have any significant input on the...

HP bloat is real. If I wasn't bound to the VTT I run in, I'd probably house-rule the crap out of 5e/A5E to make it more to my liking...

HP bloat mostly. The campaign I was running got up to 13th level and combats felt like endless back and forths of whittling down each...

I enjoy C&C. I think it's an outstanding system overall and think the Siege system is easy to understand (and 5e blatantly uses it for...