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Yesterday evening I bought copies of Alice is Missing and Deathmatch Island, as gifts for a family member and a friend. The shop also...

I don't know how hard or easy it would be to do a S&S version of 5e D&D. But I don't think that there is anything about RPGing per se...

Yup, that's one of the suggestions (among others) he's got in that chapter about slowing things down. I've also encouraged players to...

In my way back when times I ran a few D&D games that didn't have all of the niche roles filled. It is a running joke, or cliche, that...

We've had one death (went through TLD feeling like he'd done a good job setting the next generation up, and the player had pre-written...

Commentary for post #5093. We only had about 45m or so for a prologue today. As I mentioned in post #52 of the “How do you like to...

This issue you have is based on what? Some games, as has already been pointed out, don’t have “holes in the lineup” because they don’t...

Yeah, the whole "people get talked into playing something they don't want to play" thing can't happen at my table because I don't run...

In our Fabula Ultima prologue today, I rolled on the Seekers table and got: Late at night in a warm tavern, you are all discussing your...

I still like 4th. I would still run or play 4th. Didn't get nearly enough time or chance to play most of the character types I was...

In Prince Valiant, by default everyone plays a knight errant. There are two ability scores (distribute 7 points between Brawn and...

Why don't a party of adventuring NPCs recruit a few PCs to fill their gaps? The way you're describing it seems to import a type of...

There are many games where this just isn't a thing, as in "roles;" or there's a wide variety of classes that can fill roles. Eg: in 3/4...

For me, it's not necessarily collaborative PC creation - or, at least, not in a strict sense. But the starting situation has to have...

Most of the games I’ve played over the last few years have some element of collaborative PC creation. It works so well that I don’t...