Recent content by HaroldTheHobbit

In all systems I GM, it’s RP first, and then rolls may modify it a little bit.

For the impact it’s had on my gaming, probably Runequest 2ed core.

I have an ad in the bottom of my iPad screen while reading this thread. It’s in Swedish and want me to buy very high end stove fan ventilation 😂

I spent uncountable hours on Classic Car Wars in my teens, even though we didn't do any serious roleplaying with it. I even bought the GURPS Auto-dueling book just for the fluff. So of course it's my favorite tactical system, even if we played it with corps or auto-dueling teams as characters...

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One of the reasons Savage Worlds is my main game is that while there are levels, kinda, that create a familiar sense of progress for the players, a fresh character can kill a very powerful foe, and vice versa. It's a sweet take on character progression imho, without the D&D style level rigidity...

Like the OP, I am monogamous towards Savage Worlds, but have some flings on the side with WHFRP, CoC etc. But SW is flexible enough to do everything me and my players want, while the systems mid crunch has become very transparent for us. So I see no reason for a divorce in the foreseeable...

For D&D-style fantasy, the frames for the bard are defined but wide enough for me, so no change needed. For other systems it's impossible to answer - we have cyberpunk rockstars, space opera psionic singers, scholars and madmen trading stories about the eldritch evil in the dark between the...

I seriously dislike japanese style cartoons, moving or not. It’s probably an age thing. Nevertheless, I get really grumpy when explicit and implicit anime thingy stuff infects and poison otherwise good nerd media and games.

Skavens and warpstone under Absalom.

I agree. D&D5e supports the very specific D&D5e style of fantasy, mainly because of system design and presumptions. One can twist and turn it a bit with player buy-in, but in the end it will still be D&D.

Savage Worlds hit my crunch sweetspot. It’s there, but in the right places that make it easy for a GM to improvise and wing it, and the right amount of ruling-not-rules. As others have said, a high crunch system can be very playable with good VTT support. I also GM WarhammerFRP on Foundry and...

For me and my table d20 high fantasy style gaming includes a flow of magic items. To eliminate using encumbrance I always throw the party a bag of holding or two at session 0 or 1. For us no magic items means a different play style, and then we don’t use d20/D&D.

As a GM for a table of players that really enjoy and focus on the roleplaying and social aspect, and are adept at developing their characters, I try to keep the challenges reasonably tough but the deadliness low - since they invest a lot in their characters. In grimdark systems like WFRP the...

If I was short of time, came from rules-for-everything systems, wanted good premade adventures and had three permanent groups, I would try to convert the players to Pathfinder 2e. In my limited experience it is - after an initial learning hump - probably the least time and prep consuming system...