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The first RPG-ish things I would have bought are the original Fighting Fantasy books. They were my gateway into the hobby. I learned...

I haven’t got it the table yet myself, only read it. But it reads really well as a more grounded fantasy game. It gives me The Fantasy...

The current Dragonbane crowdfunder is for a new city book - Arkand (and an expanded magic book, too).

Babylon 5 is probably the model I reference back to as well in most campaigns. A degree of long term overarching ‘plot’ for want of a...

I use Babylon 5 as my role model. I love the are multiple layers of story lines. There is the big-picture metaplot, long term factions...

It works fine for me. :) Just as in the Game of Thrones books, you run it in chapters - play one party for a while, then put them on...

I like the PCs to be exceptional because I like asymmetrical design for RPGs, The PCs should work on a different paradigm to most NPCs...

Boardgames are one of the secondary activities of my gaming group. We aim to meet weekly, and the #1 plan is to play an RPG. If the GM...

Per the BGS discord: Thanks for all your excitement and feedback since the launch of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered! We are...

Right. If you want to "interrupt" the players without them failing or rolling with fear, you have to spend a fear(if I understand it...

My understanding is that you get the spotlight and get a point of fear as the GM if a players rolls with Fear on an action roll. You...

I suspect GMs will need to do this regardless, as spending Fear allows the GM to take the spotlight. So managing spotlight will be a key...

I’m coming at this from a theoretical perspective as I haven’t run it yet, so take my ideas with a pinch of salt… It seems to me that...

I'm trying to decide if that is courage or folly.

I have a setting where the world orbits a sun that orbits the World Tree, and there is a big festival when the worlds align to make...