Recent content by Nytmare

Do you like turtles?

SPOILERS AHEAD! GAME TWO: THE DISCUSSION The second game was NOT bad. [I change my mind. Now that I've revisited the entire story, I realize that there were interesting pieces, but that overall it was pretty freaking painful.] It just suffered from having a mix of playstyles that I and (I...

For the first time in a LONG time, I was actually free on Free RPG Day and decided to dig into my bag of tricks and bring something I was figuring few if any of the people there had ever seen before. I had picked up a copy of Fall of Magic after falling in love with a different game from the...

I'm sad that the game didn't click for you. All of the times that I've played it, even when the atmosphere was light, the background stress of the listing tower short circuited perfectly into fear for us. Not like heart pounding "I'm in the dark in an abandoned rotting warehouse and the...

Yeah, I'm not typically a dice guy, but those Dispel dice are freaking beautiful.

You've never heard that nickname before? "misery simulator" torchbearer - Google Search

Misery. Simulator. :D

These are amazing. I'm glad that I've managed to be a good influence on someone out there. Typically I usually only get mentioned like this when someone's looking for bail money.

They can't stop rolling successes...

I am SO freaking bummed that I no longer have these trades, I was an idiot for gifting them away. I'm not even friends with the person anymore...

Time Zones can be confusing. Explanation: First session with new players from Australia. All geared up to play at 4 PM Eastern time, which we all knew was 7 AM Australian Eastern Time. Unfortunately, Australia is a day ahead, not a day behind, and in our confusion we used words like "today"...

With regards to player death, I've also had a few TPKs, and they almost always fall to new players (myself included) having to break themselves out of the idea that RPG problems need to be solved by killing something. Once the players recognize the other buttons and levers available to them, it...

What I have been having a BLAST doing, is using Mordite Press' "Vagrant's Guide to Surviving the Wild" and using it to populate the empty areas of my map. I've modified thing minusculely but the framework they have is awesome. Essentially what it does is turns overland travel into a Conflict...

Deep meaningful conversations about how the walls of the hallway might have been made and where the stone would have come from. An exciting discussion about a tub of butter and the crestfallen despair when the halfling rolls poorly and discovers that it's gone rancid. A quick aside which turns...

There are a bunch of published and community adventures, but one of my favorite things about the game is how insanely easy it is to convert concepts and other adventures into TB. The scale of what makes an adventure tick is so much smaller than what you need for other games, and introducing...