Recent content by Kichwas

I recently reached this point too, as a result of three things. Seeing a comment in the Daggerheart book about 'only roll when there's consequence', coupled with the tag system of Legends in the Mist, and then suffering through an otherwise good Pathfinder 2e GM who made us roll for EVERYTHING...

Is there somewhere that lists the exact cut-off date on that? As someone who has not purchased knowing if it's too late or if April 1 is the date would have a big impact. I'm still doubtful because I've never had the kind of players, in over 40 years, that would buy stuff past a tiny fee just...

Yeah that'd be a dead in the water issue for most GMs. GMs have a pain of a time just convincing players to show up for anything other than their system of choice. And that's when you have a regular group. I can't imagine listing a game online somewhere and saying "My game is 'free/paid' -...

That's me. A single image I make with Comfy UI / Gimp and other tools is a process of back and forth between prompts, hand drawing, references, and more. What people think AI Art is and what it actually is are very different. Anyone who is using a copy of Photoshop that is less than 10 years...

I haven't seen a mod to do that, but the mod 'Draw Steel Plus' does at least make the 'Characteristics' always visible so you can click them while looking at any other tab. Maybe this is better, maybe it's worse. This mod author has a similar mod for Daggerheart - that also cleans up their UI a...

Let me ask a followup to that. If I was curious, how much could I glean by buying the Heroes book only. How vital would the Monsters book be? I wouldn't expect to be GMing this as my interest is more towards lighter non-tactical games. I'm open to playing tactical games but have worn out my...

Does Draw Steel have any kind of marketing page? I was thinking of giving it a look, or even passing on some 'cool bits' to some people who I game with that like more tactical games than I do, but all I land on when I go to MCDM is a shopping page that doesn't even have pictures of anything or...

It's a fantasy game. I'd hope for some fantasy in a fantasy game. Long as we're being snarky at each other. But I'd hope for at least more well rounded classes so theming the way I'd want would be easier. I know who their audience is so I don't fault them for it. But I do see that it's where I...

Someone liked this old post today and that got me remembering. That GM never panned out. He offered up Beast Feast which is one of two campaign frames I don't care for and I felt awkward saying I didn't want to play a game focused on meat eating... (I'm a lifelong vegetarian - even as a baby...

As others noted though; Kalamar is on a tipping point. It tells you all the places that are right about to have issues. But it helps you understand why in ways that make sense. So there is drama there. And because the world also makes sense when I encounter a wizard making a power grab I don’t...

EDIT: phone typing may have left odd spelling errors… It felt like a world and not like the usual kitchen soup built out of the session logs of someone’s campaign. Would I want it today? I don’t know. But I am a political science sort (that was my undergraduate degree). So I need a world...

There’s a fascinating video on the history of Del Ret and modern fantasy. Del Rey both made and destroyed the fantasy genre at the same time by forcing all authors to adhere to a very strict formula and then getting their books to sell even as far as in grocery store checkout lines. A lot of...

Kalamar was the best thing about D&D 3.0 and when it got dropped I went out and bought Mutants and Masterminds. Maybe not in a direct line. But that’s essentially my story with the d20/3.x era. If I had to pick between Kalamar and any other D&D or D&D adjacent setting I’d pick Kalamar. Some...

Yeah. Sword of Shannara exists after all. It’s often described as Lord of the Rings with the serial numbers filed off and the logo slightly changed. - It’s that Roelexx watch you bought at the flea market for $19.99. Brooks actually wrote it as a post apocalypse SciFi story and what we got was...

Same here. I can't function with a plan. I need chaos. When I've run published adventures I've found it very frustrating and hard to get into things.