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A roll low mechanic has the advantage of creating a limited or closed range, which means you can usually have a more "realistic" result...

When you take your vehicle in for scheduled maintenance, the guy who tells you a story about how you need a new $5,000 transmission that...

As I couldn't get my players onboard for Forbidden campaign so I used Dragonbane to run a mash up campaign using the Raven Valley map...

my kids (8yo, 12yo, and 13yo) would disagree. lethality is very much a given if you fail to prepare and rush blindly into combat...

I've had two campaigns and only 1.75 deaths. One true death by combat rolls and the other two were player inspired (one sacrificed...

Rest assured, we played tactically and sensibly before getting slaughtered by the basilisk. But our “couple rounds of combat” ended up...

The one dinosaur related picture that sort of came out okay was this one. I think it tried to create a passenger and then gave up.

Chiming in here that I’m currently running the Secrets of the Dragon Emperor campaign and the group has done most of the adventures in...

Theoretically, there would be a couple rounds of combat and the PCs would realize they can't hurt it and they would flee. perhaps they...

But yeah, if you don't figure out the basilisk's weakness, then it's pretty much a TPK.

It depends on how your group plays. I've not had TPK with Dragonbane. My players are methodical and prudent. They don't attack...

Well, we Swedes grew up with a BRP game (Drakar och Demoner, now known as Dragonbane) being as dominant in Sweden as D&D in the States...

One of the main things with roll-over systems is that you can often obscure the difficulty by not telling the players the target number...

Here's a post I made on the Dragonbane general thread about flipping the math. There's also a handy chart included...

Yes, but I'm sure it also has some flaws.