Recent content by nyvinter

I'd echo class, levels, attributes, and d20+ mod rolls. This make Dungeon World not a D&D despite how much it really wants to be seen as it. It means 13th Age, lots of OSR, NuSR (Beyond the Wall), and Pathfinder are all D&D. Edge case for me is the X Without Number but I still think they're...

In 4e terms Hope is your encounter resource, Stress your daily. And yes martials get daily abilities; in general the fighter-type ones are round either not taking or even healing hit point damage. Yes, I know what they are thank you, you're not alone in having read the rules. I was talking about...

I would say that more powerful things should cost stress since that's a more limited resource than hope, but also if an ability is cool you also kinda want the player to be able to use it. But I see a lot of melee and protective abilities cost stress as well, and I assume it's because they feel...

I think they were selected because, like it or not, this is the standard D&D party of the 2020s. Homemade world, Forgotten Realms, or Ravenloft, it doesn't really matter. If you look at how most people out there play 5e, their party will be the circus (affectionate).

Last selfie was me playing around with bad photocopier effects.

The Barovian gloom and doom hasn't set in yet.

People will get angry if they use D&D 2014, and people will get angry if they use D&D 2024, and other people will get angry if they use Daggerheart. So the best thing they could do what they want because some portion of the fanbase will get upset anyway. They need a shake-up.

100% agreed about the pace. But I also wonder if they've learned some from their own playtest and how WotC do theirs — it's better to have things be playtested for a while rather than a month or two before print. Especially if it has a whole new domain. So this is playtest for a book that comes...

Oh yes. I read the game and told people "this is what we should have played in 2016 rather than the highly modified Dungeon World!" (We had to add social things from Urban Shadows and fix the dungeon parts of the playbooks — we don't do dungeon crawls.) Darrington Press just have the worst...

Well no, he did a few play tests of DH and a Deadlands miniseries too, and occasionally played in a parthfinder oneshot. Most of the other things he's talked about playing was in collage, at least as far as campaign goes. Otherwise it's bite-sized samples that will not change how he play a game...

"Insists on rolling physical dice when everyone else rolls in the VTT" This jsut shows how different tables are. We roll physical dice with VTT rolls optional. Why? Dice are more fun.

If I ran 450 four hour long sessions of D&D (plus how many years before that), and then sometimes did 5 pbta/fitd sessions in total, I'd too probably default to D&D mindset. The only way to break it is by playing other things and getting things wrong — habits don't change right away. (I'm the...

Would also use a custom rule that getting a scar is automatic and not up to a dice roll when you pick the fall unconscious death move — possibly with an exception if you strike a bad deal with whatever entity is on the other side. (I was certain automatic scar was in Age of Umbra already but...

For even further into the narrative than those there's the Cortex Prime game Tales of Xadia (based on the Dragon Prince cartoon). It's also really good.