Recent content by payn

Yeap, im seeing it here too. It's examples like this that lead folks to claiming any published adventure is a railroad, when its just an example of bad adventure writing. It's like the cousin of the inexperienced or clumsy GM mentioned earlier in the thread.

Pathfinder Society trained me pretty well how to manage a time slot. Before I just assumed we would go at our pace and finish at our pace. Though, you dont always have that luxury and switching gears is tough if you dont have the skill set. So, planning a fun adventure to fit the time slot, that...

How folks come to frame things generally and culturally is interesting. I play some wargames alongside my RPGs in my gaming hobby. I've run into a few folks who see the popular ideas that have taken hold of wargame design of the last 20-30 years (abstract rules, streamlined for faster play...

Some even have the 3 or 4 replaced with a symbol.

Mixed reactions to games so far. FFG system id rather have numbers than symbols. DCC dice are as a weird as the game itself, which I really like. As long as the dice set is a one time purchase and you dont need like a bunch of sets for factions or every changing rule supplements, it doesn't...

“The best part of your enemy’s ship breaking up, is Folgers in your cup”

It's a tough nut to crack. After a pilot and a gunner, its always a wonder what everyone else does? Traveller gives roles such as comms expert, engineer, and captain. Whether roles fit the PC and players well or not isnt always a smooth process. Most of it seems to just help the gunner shoot...

If realistic is not space aircraft carriers filled with "Starbucks" that do the fighting, then I prefer the realistic side. I play a lot of Traveller games as my preferred Sci-Fi RPG. I enjoy the age of sail in space theme.

We are talking about the worst places to get pizza in America. The list should really be least worst and then folks can quibble about the details from there.

Not as stiff as PF2 should be fine.

Sounds like it which is why I’m glad I passed on it.