Recent content by Bayushi_seikuro

I've always loved the world of Dominaria, but I didn't like the article they put out for it. I've often kicked around the idea of running a D&D game set there, where the PCs and most of the threats consist of all the low-mana cost original cards.

Listening to the Omnibus podcast before, I believe musician John Roderick told Ken Jennings that 1997 didn't exist because he wasn't sure of any event happening that year.

I like this. I think it was during Superman press where James Gunn talked about Guy, and said he's the guy that, when someone needs a superhero and Guy shows up, they're just like 'Crap. Not THIS guy' and regrets not being more specific when they request a hero.

"Melee fight over a gun." Traveller. Boarding action where we're trying to disable crew, not kill them. PC #1 fails a grapple, NPC grabs PC #1's gauss pistol. NPC shoots my PC after winning a grapple against me. On my turn - all of this is in combat oder - I grab the pistol away from the...

The other day, I watched a video describing the difference between 'I apologize' and 'I'm sorry', and I learned that apology came from apologia, or more of a defense/explanation of one's actions.

Great article as always. I find there can be a lot of interesting history to work into gaming. Salem is always a good scenario given that it purports to be about infernal pacts but usually ends up being so much more of neighbors landgrabbing each other, but I think there are other good...

I don't feel that's railroading as much as plot set-up, and as long as it's not used too often (the GM taking players' abilities away ex machina) it's okay. To me, the example of railroading was, when I was younger, there was a DM. The problem was he was one of those DMs who, instead of being...

Stripping the Esseray stealth ship. (Traveller, two years post-Fall of Tinath)

I don't know if you've seen, but... they explained the disappearance of the Alphas after the Bicentennial Battle in Chicago. When I read it - it blew my mind.

An oldie but a goodie is Brave New World, if you can find it. It's all low level supers, and essentially it's Savage Worlds for a system.

If need be, this should be your party's exit...

I like this. It reminds me of John Wick's Orkworld - an RPG that started out as a 4000 word essay just so he could play an ork bard in a D&D game (the GM's attitude was that orcs are just speedbumps for adventurers) - and the concept of Trouble. Some people are born with a little Trouble, and...

Exactly. Everyone needs to eat, and doesn't have a lord to provide it, so it's often a choice of choosing to be an adventurer or choosing banditry. "I didn't choose the adventuring life. .... it chose me."

I feel adventurers in D&D are a lot like the Magnificent Seven in film. They're not trusted because they're not generally tied down to the community enough for others to vouch for them. They don't have a steady employment - say, being a hired gun for a ranch. They tend to be tougher than the...

I'd agree - a short rest is a worthwhile gamble, unless that time could be used better to get out of the complex. The resource they're lowest on might not just be HP, but information: where the Master is, what the Master is, number and disposition of remaining minions (hell, some may have seen...