Recent content by nyvinter

Sure it is but in a dramaturgical way rather than random. And it's way more inline with the grimdark literary genre it's inspired by, things go to naughty word and the main character get's mangled but they do survive. The disconnect is that some people believe that death is the only consequence that...

I did see some people complain that Age of Umbra wasn't enough soulslike, and I'm sitting here going "no, it's way more deadly." A soulslike ttrpg should have unlimited respawns when you die.

If deadliness is only defied on character actually dying during the game rather than how the rules interact, then Call of Cthulhu isn't particular deadly at all. Seeing people go "It's gone X sessions and no-one has died!!1!" from the start makes me think people don't care about how players...

Yes. And shares a lot of people with the later show in the same city, the Wire.

It's a bit like when Showtime decided to cancel Odyssey 5 because "we're not interested in science fiction right now" despite it was their number one show ratingswise.

Max Headroom has aged surprisingly well — the channel 4 movie more so than the tv-show. And while I personally don't consider it old, Farscape is 25 years or so now. Still amazing. (A friend and I are currently rewatching Homicide: Life In the Streets. Recommended if you haven't as it deal...

Callan. Edward Woodward as a spy who shouldn't be out in the field because he's already broken as heck. And yet his bosses keep using him. Unfortunately a lot of episodes are missing.

Sandbaggers was the number one inspiration for Greg Rucka's Queen & Country comic — a bit less cold war than the Sandbaggers tv show obviously. Both highly recommended.

Google TV. The older version with less storage and no Ethernet port. It has most of the apps (including Kodi for NAS-access and Deezer/spotify for music) and the remote can handle soundbar and tv on/off. And I can take it with me quite easily.

It doesn't take any money from you and doesn't lock you into one venue so miles better than DM'sGuild.

Depending on how powerful one wants them to be, one could make them behave as specialisations. If you pick that level up, then you choose if you want the one for you class or an available dragonmark.

That's Mercer in all his campaigns. The main campaigns even have magic shops where they can get personalised magical items.

Suggested spends are a good starting guideline. And then see how you need to change it depending on the players and how you run the game, fear spends is so much vibes based that it's silly. :D

Worth noting is that low-level Daggerheart is not the same as in D&D 5e. DH tier 1 character is more first or second level 4e or 3rd level 5e powerwise.

I'm very much in the player buy-in, tension, and atmosphere camp. Lethality? No, then meatgrinders would be horrific but as they've shown, you can just make a new character so after a while you (read: I) stop caring. Sanity? Almost all of them are about removing agency from the players and it...