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It is. I have a somewhat related conversation going on in discord because we noticed that several folks are using the same image of...

Ordered Tangled Blessings this morning. I'll do a playthrough this fall, in time for the new (magical) school year. We'll see if I have...

If Coca-Cola were the size of rpg companies and suffered a hit like this, I might well donate to help. If Jones Soda Company did, ditto.

At least publishers are better about asking for it than they used to be. Back in the GPA days, the fights about raising the prices past...

I mean, this is an existential threat to their continued existence as a publisher: maybe it isb"unseemly", but they aren't in a position...

I'll throw out one more into the mix --- if it was with a group that had never played RPGs before, Tiny D6 would be a very possible...

Yeah, there was a time I could have done that with RuneQuest or Hero without too much of a struggle. Like I said, I'm just rusty.

For my part, the ability to run a quick pickup game -- or any minimal to no prep game -- is familiarity with the system. If you know the...

I haven't run anything with zero prep for a couple of years, but when I did, I had the best results with PtbA games, particularly...

For a one-shot? Fate Accelerated Edition. Some time ago, I put together a short set of questions I can ask a group, from which I can...

I love FAE, but I use a hack for fantasy games - I replace the default six approaches with the six D&D abilities (this is not my own...

FATE Accelerated Give me a Genre and a Setting Give me a Sentence to describe your Character Assign Your Approaches Give me your...

Awfully Cheerful Engine. I can run it easily with zero prep off the top of my head, and players can learn the rules in like 5 minutes max.

For years it was Risus (with The Isle of Dread, but set in the 1930s and repurposed as a "lost world" adventure) or The Window (the...

Back on-topic, "stop looking at your character sheet." This really depends on the system, and how much the PCs care about succeeding-...