Recent content by Obryn

Looking at dm-side compatibility is a smokescreen. The dm side can be convincingly smoke-and-mirrored across edition gaps with minimal fudging. Adventures, monsters, etc - the small differences for the brief time they're present in a campaign pales to the things players interact with many times...

Don't forget David and Leigh Eddings.

No mention of Pinkertons? They're losing their edge!

I think that's plausible. I'm sure crypto grift is much more lucrative.

It's astonishing to me how out of touch all of this is. Nobody wants any of this. Nobody is going to buy some magic sword NFT on some corporate marketplace for $200 - or even $2 - for use in a ttrpg. The whole point of a ttrpg is that you just make naughty word up and pretend to be elves with your...

This honestly reads like a teenager sad that D&D is making a new edition. Really overdramatic and makes me wonder how he had enough perspective to write a history book.

I don't suspend mine :) I think if you've paid close enough attention in the past few years (and no criticism to those who don't - it's pretty depressing), it was pretty clear Phoenix and Stone were not who they publicly presented themselves as. Zak, yup. But also "Grim" Desbrough; she had a...

Why not go on and look into it, and then get back to everyone with your results, instead of throwing around rhetorical questions?

This just all looks like they've ignored the past 20-30 years of game design and have settled on a very 90's kind of system. It's really looking bad so far.

I'm a big fan of DCC, and ran two of these adventures - The Old God's Return and Frozen in Time - just in the past few weeks. They're really spectacular adventures, but I'd suggest running them in DCC as opposed to 5e. DCC's a fantastic system, with some good (and surprisingly) modern design...

Ideally, I prefer consistency as much as possible. I love players-always-roll. Second place is "active do-er of a thing rolls." My least favorite is the D&D way of doing it, but I've internalized it so much it works anyway.

I remember when WotC was talking about eSports and everyone said, "No way they *really* meant eSports, that would be dumb. I'm sure it's an analogy of some kind!" Welp! I remember the D&D Open at Gen Cons of old - competitive dungeoncrawling isn't a new thing - but 5e is such a floofy rules...

This post is dumb in profound ways.

BitD is a refinement and progression of the PbtA system. It takes the best parts and further expands the framework. To me, this trend of paring down RPGs to their essential cores and streamlining them to put the desired genre front & center is what defines modern design. There's not a thing in...

Any joker can take a d20 table and expand it to a d100 or d1000 table. Anyone can add in stuff about wind speed, etc. True artistry is when you can distill the theme down into a concise set of rules that enhances the sort of play desired, without getting in the way. One of the best examples I...