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I did my research and I was lucky - a new game store owned up and I kind of jumped on the gaming space that he had available. It's a small shop and he's only got one table avail - I host a private game there which inevitably gets some spectators and a table full of people having fun gaming is a...

Ok, finished ep 2. Yea, it's tedious and slow but it's supposed to be 120+ episodes, I'm fine with building emotional investment in the characters first before the campaign flings them headlong into danger. There's a few people here expecting Tik-Tok videos which, you know, okay. Lots of weird...

Well that's absolutely awful.

At this moment, I can't find confirmation nor denial. Loved his work - he helped bring the tabletop rpg hobby to the mainstream with his journalism. And of course he'll be terribly missed on the forums.

From my original post: If you feel like you hate campaign durations of that length and wouldn't ever do this, good for you and there's no need for you to post in this thread.

Remember, it’s a hypothetical. Assume any game you choose has really good VTT support so don’t make it a consideration. You dismiss some other choices as unrealistic, but I’m curious… What are they?

Mercer is doing what I've seen other forever GMs do which is play antagonistic characters because they're used to being in that role when they run games. It's mildly annoying because in the case of forever GMs I've known who have done this, it's used to undercut the current GM and make...

I had such fun with 3.0, and I love that edition of the game more than 3.5. I know 3.5 fixed lot of things but I rather liked monsters being both deadlier and easier to kill. And I liked magic having... as one YT video put it... a more strategic component and less tactical.

I played in -- didn't run -- a RM2 campaign for a long while about 20 years ago. What a blast. Yea, very sim but I really missed that style of game and the system did a great job of supporting long-term play.

Lots of great thoughtful replies. And it's time I answer my own question. Earthdawn 4th would be my current choice for a long-campaign. It's extremely 'horizontal' in its advancement - PCs get many choices from tons of talents, abilities and spells and are encouraged - both in game, and...

What version? Seems like it's hard to assume 5e anymore what with all the love 4e gets and nostalgia for AD&D nowadays.

It's a hypothetical question, with the following stipulations: 1. The campaign you'll be running will be at least 60 sessions long, more if you wish. 2. It's a fantasy campaign but the subgenre is whatever you want it to be. Heroic, grim-dark, military, whatever. 3. Can be any rpg system since...

Yea, we did play a few games of this last year. Lots of fun, lots of cool subsystems, some gaming technologies that feel fresh and exciting for a heroic fantasy genre. It's a love-letter to JRPGs which I can't fully appreciate because I don't have a nostalgic view of them from back in the day...

I've got to play it but tag bloat seems like a problem, too. Feels like replacing numeric complexity with more descriptive complexity (that you still have to add up anyway?)

That sounds good and promising! I hope the Kickstarter is a huge success for them. Given many financially successful RPGs have borrowed their design from PbtA in the past 15 years, they deserve the success.