Recent content by AnotherGuy

Because dictatorships should not be caricatured as it is commonly done for a WWE-loving public. Please repeat after me King Solomon was a selfish, self-serving chaotic evil king. The west loves to demonise and caricature dictators because reasons we are disallowed to elaborate on. I'm not...

Hogwash. That is a silly sweeping statement.

You have the benefit of the AL material as well as all the free material on the net, never mind Against the Giants and decent tie-in with ToD. SKT should be a slam dunk for any DM who is willing to put in some fun work. I will say that the conch's really worked for my table - and continue to do...

I find whether you are religious or not any direction far breeds unwell farms of toxicity. But it has been a long time since I was astonished.

I did use it in limited fashion for a solo 3pp adventure I ran for someone which adventure made sense to have something along these lines. It was half baked but fun nevertheless. I will say it is tricky - I certainly need more practice running such a system and I'm sure it would be challenging...

These too are nice ideas for the use of social skills by NPCs! Like I have been saying this space is very unexplored in D&D. I'm likely to poach and find a way to incorporate this thinking for a social encounter. Thanks!

It is wilful by the player that that agency be limited. In the same way one can choose to fail a saving throw or be persuaded. They decide on the scores of their traits, passions etc. That is a knowing risk decided by the player. In the same way that you decide your scores in D&D, it is a...

Freestyling is great with a bunch of thespians, actor-types, creatives etc - but not every player possesses that skill. Some are more tactically minded, combat orientated etc. I find our system helps me to help those players enjoy a part of the game that would have in the past alluded them. Now...

I'm giving XP for a player to have his character ditch the main party, put the entire campaign storyline at risk, for him to attempt to save an NPC. He has had a dozen sessions separate from the rest of the group and they have had about 1/2 as much. They have all levelled up, he has not. In the...

Ah, I wanted to eliminate me as the arbiter of what is good. I do not want that responsibility. I want to stay far away from that as possible. I prefer setting up the dilemma as it ties to their TIBFs and then offer the XP to lean into them (obviously with the fictional or otherwise cost)...

I am always in awe of the amount of varied systems which exist.

I'm missing Goldface, Tattooed Man, Sinestro...and possibly an argument with Ms Ferris

Some players naturally lean that way some do not. The XP system keeps things fair.

Oh to iron out something here. The system I provided as an example for NPC use of Persuastion and Intimidation has absolutely ZERO to do with the TIBF/XP system. These are mutually separate systems. Essentially an interesting situation arises, more often than not I will scan a characters TIBFs...

A PC sat down to negotiate with an NPC in Sigil. The NPC attempted to read the PCs mind and find some specific tidbit of information. The character, who had foreseen this and protected himself somewhat from this, has the Flaw of not being able to keep secrets very well. I offered an XP to the PC...