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I ran a westmarches style game in high school (long before the term west marches existed) i was mostly running games in the after school games club so I had 2 hours once a week for a discreet adventure. The formula was the same 1) start at base location university, village, pub, castle...

Same, been doing this so long I am not even sure I could run or play in a game with other adults anymore.

or Dragonbane or any of the other systems that have a single universal meta currency for powering abilities (yes DH has stress too but its used a bit differently than hope).

Harnmaster has to be the king of simulation systems, is there another game where PCs have sense of smell as an attribute? Such a great system some what hampered by confusing use of unnecessary acronyms.

Classic traveller did a good job modeling skill development with rapid skill advancement from early training, a new skill/point per year and then slower progression of 1 point of new skill/improvement per four years or so of life experience. Since a skill level of 3 was the equivalent of a...

This right here is where I am at, ditching social Media is making my life better a little bit at a time. I still get sucked into stupid arguments with people who are half my age and a 10th of my experience but c'est la vie. i am down to Reddit and Bluesky now but I am about to cut out all the...

This sub forum is literally the only part of ENWorld I use, I vastly prefer forums to discord or 99% of reddit so my choices are limited but the people on here (for the most part) are good folks and knowledgable too.

my kids (8yo, 12yo, and 13yo) would disagree. lethality is very much a given if you fail to prepare and rush blindly into combat. However even then with con based death saves, rallying, and the first aid skill we have had zero killed PCs through most of the misty vale.

This is my main issue with discord, if its popular and busy its pretty much unusable unless you live on it 24-7.

Moderation is 100% on the sub reddit owners and most of the smaller ones are very well run. As for longevity I can still find posts from 10 years ago so not sure thats a problem.

Something I didn’t see anybody else mention on here is the dot community pages hosted by discourse. The only one I frequent is for mausritter and its quite good ( Tiny Tails: Mice & Dice Adventures ) it has all the forum discussions with some modern touches. Patreon integration is a big bonus.

You make it look easy though…

I find discord to be all but useless for anything other than sh*t posting and memes, actual discussion is nearly impossible. Reddit (really just a collection of forums) is better but forums are still the best IMHO for community building and discussions of any depth.

The lists on bluesky have been great for separating my often competing intrests.

Any company that uses paper is getting hit by tariffs, any company that produces in Canada, Mexico, China or Europe is getting hit by tariffs. That pretty much covers 99% of the hobby.