Recent content by overgeeked

Yeah, but did you hear it in his voice?

There’s an optional rules checklist on their site. Grab that and fill it out. Give each of your players a copy. It’ll make things dramatically easier.

I remember him most from Doctor Detroit.

“The data collected in this survey is anonymous, and will be used as a part of a capstone project for a group of Library and Information Science graduate students at the University of Washington. The capstone project intends to create a usable TTRPG metadata schema for classifying and cataloging...

It’s true regardless. Clearly.

Because people always want more. Whatever you include won’t be enough until the whole thing is there. Only do monster stat conversions, someone will want PC races. Only do those two, someone will want classes. Only do those three, someone will want spells. Etc.

If that’s what they mean, that’s what they should say, or ask. Two different questions. Which is why it’s generally better to start with characters with that exact description. Trying to download the sum total of all knowledge an adult would have of the world at large into a player’s head is...

That’s one of those persistent myths. It’s still a copyright violation even if you’re not selling anything. Besides, it would cost Gavin sales as a complete fan conversion would make the official books redundant. Not a great way to show support of a creator who’s work you enjoy.

Makes sense though. If the conversion is so complete it replaces the original books, the fans have crossed a line.

I run sandbox games almost exclusively in “worlds that are big and full of things” and I don’t want players to help me world build. I’m not interested in players co-refereeing. If a player asked “what things” I’d tell them to ask around in character to find out, not tell me what things they want...

I dunno. Depends on the post. You post support of bigots, that's literally the only thing I will ever need to know about you and I will block you immediately.

The trick with player-driven gaming is to make sure the PCs each have several really solid, specific, and actionable goals baked in before you start play. Short term, mid term, and long term. Though, of course, they can change and update over time. Just having a solid start and end goal with...

Exactly. A few, sure. All of them, no chance. At last look there's not a single mention of the issues with Goodman Games in the comment section.

Pirate Borg. Playing a ghost is one of the options. Any generic game where it fits the premise. Any superhero game. Phasing is a fairly common power.

Couldn't agree more. If you're making RPG products, the first and most important goal is making them usable as a game at the table. But then that's likely just the publishing side of referees who have worldbuilder's disease or are more interested in running their players through a predefined...