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Golden Bee replied to the thread Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words..Voice of the Blue Lotus Countless knives raised in conspiracy! Devi’s been invited to her home state of Hyderabad by the Nizam. Who's... -
Golden Bee reacted to Edgar Ironpelt's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with
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I prefer to ban them completely. If you need an auto success/fail rule to hit/miss, that's the rules and the dice telling you that the... -
Golden Bee reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with
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My house rule is that rolling a 2 is an automatic zoink. But double 2s flips that. A natural 4, OTOH, is a quimble that can be saved... -
Golden Bee reacted to Blue's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
Generally, static-chance crit successes and crit failures hurt the PCs more than help them by increasing swinginess. To take D&D for an...
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Golden Bee reacted to Piperken's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with
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Most of the time a crit fail/crit success results in a very favorable or very unfavorable occurrence in the fiction. One time a player... -
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Golden Bee reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
How about: Put a very brief history/backstory at the beginning of the adventure that only has the essential information the GM will...
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Golden Bee replied to the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+].Gumshoe does these a lot. The Conspyramid, Cthulu 1-to-1.
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Golden Bee replied to the thread Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words..Quiet on the Set-Up! A Kiss-Kiss Crisis. Hollywood! A cast of hundreds is on set for the pivotal slave revolt scene of Atlas’s newest...
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Golden Bee reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run? with Like.
It's a little cleaner in the actual layout, and yeah not everybody vibes with Necrotic Gnome's house style - but it gives you a very...
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You seem to be making the case that information can only be presented one way, which is obviously false. If a module (for example) has...
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Golden Bee reacted to BruceWright's post in the thread Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run? with Like.
a reminder that many game designers wish they were Tolkien. And the lesson they learned from reading Tolkien is that his books used a...
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Golden Bee reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run? with Like.
I think you're conflating quantity of content vs. presentation. As an example of what I want, take that four page history of a...
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Golden Bee reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run? with Like.
I think you're maybe not familiar with the newer (by like a general "length of TTRPGs existing" newer) modules that I think many of us...