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Storybook character murders London's racists I ran a Rivers of London scenario set during the post Brexit protests in 2016, I wrote which features a dead Nazi witch intentionally killed by wizard Nazi hunter, but the magic he unleashed goes on to murder more than the intended target and the...

Storybook character murders London's racists

Oh you could easily reskin mechanics for sword thrust to instead be witty insults, and swap hit points for reputation, and have practically the same mechanics running underneath. I agree but I don't think your example is a particularly strong one.

To me modern games give players some sort of control over the setting/story beyond just their own character. Be it through some sort of metacurrency or mechanic like Momentum in 2d20 games that allow them to do stuff narratively beyond the influence of their own character, or through working...

And yet earlier you said AI produces "slop", but this slop is at the same time indistinguishable from genuine human writing?

I take it you have never played Dread?

Why would you play only D&D when there is a wealth of different experiences to be had with other genres and systems?

The thing is with point buy they don't need to be balanced, as the player has the choice as to what suits their character best, both mechanically or even if they wanted a more balanced character for RP reasons. If you did random rolls and came up with one of those two you are playing a straight...

Just a very weird one.

You are comparing travelling in Europe to going dungeon crawling? Been watching too much GB News?

I agree esspecially about it being "problematic", ie just something that is difficult to handle, not something that has to necessarily be avoided completely.

Stuff like that is hard to tell if it is going to impact play. I find as a GM while there might be a set plan for the BBEG, having his background and understanding his motivations, means that if that plan needs to change you are better prepared to improvise.

4th Ed which was mainly two page spread for encounters was really designed to make things easier for the DM. There were complaints at the time that it was dull to read, but I found in play it was much more manageble. Also because from the ground up 4th Ed was designed to be very playable, easier...

And it's gone.