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Well, yea. There’s only three ways to decide the outcome of what happens in an encounter in a roleplaying game. 1) The GM decides. 2)...

the guy who came up with Apocalypse World and probably the mind that influenced TTRPG design the most in the last 10 years, whether your...

I contribute to nixpkgs, which forms the basis of NixOS, but it supports other platforms too. I primarily focus on improving the support...

I think the trick isnt to make it an absolute red herring. By that I mean as long as there is an adventure attached, its fun to explore...

So, last night I dropped the first news bulletin on my PoD players. I make these up as the game goes along. They contain info about...

On this, I definitely see it as different myself. Though I think Hexcrawling is a good way to do sandbox. I am generally more interested...

In your example, there is a place that the players want their PCs to travel to - The Tomb of Wealth and Glory. And the PCs know the way...

For me, "sandbox" RPGing is about players taking the lead. Blind choices aren't very consistent with that. And extensive GM gating of...

Yeah, I call my game a hexcrawl, but they’re mostly a tool for me to determine how long it takes to get somewhere and a currency for...

I use hexes but I wouldn't call my campaigns Hexcrawls. The way I use them is mainly as a way of measuring distance and knowing when to...

The issue I have with hex-ploration is the amount of dead space. I found this particularly when running Tomb of Annihilation. It’s...

For reference of my prep that might be helpful, I have broken the Trojan Reach into 3 parts. The Dust Belt This area of space contains...

Most of my nWoD/CoD games were essentially sandboxes. They were very minimal prep, usually few short bulletpoints, but heavy on improv...

I have to edit a document today, but I thought I would post these before I did. I've shared them on my discord. They maps for my Ogre...

Who is Dungeon World 2 For? My tentative answer after reading this: "not for me." :cry: It's aiming for a 5e D&D, Critical Role, and...