Recent content by Lord_Blacksteel

Meow Wolf is a cool experience - I live near the TX location - but I never really contemplated an RPG of it. It's not something like a book or a movie that has a coherent or linear experience but it's an interesting idea. Now if there was an opportunity to play something somewhere inside one -...

A fair number of RPGs these days have "chase rules" that put some mechanics on pursuit and evasion. That's probably a good place to start. Savage Worlds has them among the games mentioned in this thread.

You're going to find that outside of 3E and later versions of D&D most RPGs do not have "encounter balance" as an area of focus. Even recent games, outside of D&D and offshoots of it, do not really get into this. Players and GMS just have to pay attention to what's going on in-game and realize...

Why not just run it at Level 0 using the DCC rules as-is? It's not like there's a lot of "system" at zero level anyway. After the adventure whoever survives gets to move into 1st level 5E picking a class etc. and maybe getting a stat bump somewhere in there as well. Also if you are running this...

Studios and production companies mainly care about ratings and viewership. Online discussion is a fairly small part of it except as promotional hype at the start or between seasons or as a bullet point on a list of why something performed below expectations. If a show is hitting big numbers they...

If you want to reinforce that it's the same 6 seconds for everyone then you should try using something like the speed chart from hero - players have to decide what they're doing second by second, in order of say, highest dex first. Some people are waiting for their actions to finish, some are...

There will always be a new edition if a game develops any kind of following - the only question is how long it will take.

Yes - old school Runequest has a "must make skill checks to advance skills" type system and this is exactly what we used to see in those campaigns. I think OP is trying to solve a problem most people aren't that concerned about 20+ years on. Also this: Going from Rank 2 to Rank 3 in a...

The Gygax Memorial Fund has been talking and posting and showing plans for various memorials since at least 2013. None of them have yielded anything of substance despite funds coming and going. Why should anyone believe that this latest effort will be different than the previous once?

As a review it would be very helpful to include more specific examples - what are the character stats? Is it point buy or roll or something else? How do skills work? Where do those complication dice come in? Are there feats or something similar? Is there some kind of Luck/Fate...

I am familiar with the concept but let's remember that these people are choosing their own delivery dates when they set these things up and most of them are not first-time crowdfunding efforts.

I backed it too and I'm not going to agree with that "understandably" part - the original quote for delivery was September 2024. If they had been 3 or 4 or even 5 months late there would have been no additional complication. Now it's a full year late and they have yet to start shipping to the...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned 50 Fathoms for Savage Worlds. It's a great setup for a fantasy seafaring campaign, piracy included, and the old Pirates of the Spanish Main works nicely as a supplement for it too. Ship combat, cargo & trade tables, an interesting setting, and some larger...

Every class can have some heavy "DM and Campaign" dependencies as can multiclassing. There may be limits on using spells from other books. There may be limits on particular subclasses. Are we playing a dungeon heavy campaign, one with a lot of cross-country travel/hexcrawling, or a social-heavy...

I mean the grid is not particularly limiting in play - no one is counting squares with superhuman movement. You use the rank table for distance and time, particularly outdoors and long distances. Flight 10 = 2000 mph or 2 miles per round so 5' here or there is nothing. The grid only really...