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Coming from a different design space: Is your game an anime fantasy? Having someone destroy an opponent's plate armor with punches would be valid. Is your game attempting to capture a sense of 15th century violence in Europe? In D&D, it's possible to meaningfully injure an opponent donned in...

One recent example, released in January, 2025. While pinball enthusiasts have expressed legitimate criticisms, it seems like it's been well received and mentioned in the top 100 for the time being. The Tyrant's Eye

For running a new system, compliment for accomplishing as much as you did!

My watched list: Phase 1-3: I think I watched everything except for the 1st Captain America film Phase 4: Shang Chi, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, WandaVision, Loki (1st Season), Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, Guardians Holiday Special Phase 5: Loki (2nd Season), Daredevil: Born Again (1st Season)...

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Here's a prep page for a session that happened last month that I felt good about. It's normally in two columns. This was for a 2.5 hour session, if I remember correctly. Flick was an improv NPC I had to make up on the spot in the last session; the details you see are what spilled out just from...

Appreciate the shares; besides the topic, am paying attention especially to what writing implements ppl are using, as well as what they're choosing to write on!

I feel this is where intentions comes into play (and part of the reason why OP question would be best answered by designers). For a table that is really versed in D&D-style games or fiction first/improv games (e.g. PbtA or the like), Daggerheart may not be a good fit; there will be steps that...

This feels like a good question designers would be suited to answer. If we take combat as one part of a game... I don't like combat that lasts three hours of my gaming time, either as a table runner or a player. Most everyone is familiar with combat as it is run in different iterations of D&D...

I've run Vaesen; YZE works well for investigative/horror genre, just the usual caveats for play to avoid locking clues behind high Investigative or Learning checks. Based on the iteration used in your game, it's possible to grab systems from other YZE games to use in yours. For example, people...

I know WH from WHFP 1e and I've not followed the setting from there to 4e. I'd love to hear ppls' opinion of the setting the designers have chosen for this system. My understanding is that while WH is grimdark, there was a certain hilarity to what was going on throughout the original setting...

Sirlin's Playing to Win feels pertinent here, as well as the casual/hardcore divides in video games that led to negative gatekeeping over what a "gamer" was. While role playing games have been around for a longer period of time, there is overlap between the communities. Only anecdotally, it...

They have a cave troll. -- Boromir, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship (movie) The way this line was delivered, with its black humor and sarcasm, absolutely was a this has become dangerous warning.

I recall ~10-20 years back there was a rebirth of everything old is new again, that was tied by a number of writers at the time to generation. There was a lot of rediscovery by younger ppls in particular fashion styles, retrowave & synthwave in music, ppl learning again that they liked vinyl...

It's interesting to hear this, esp. in light of points Charlaquin mentions. There's other factors involved ofc with inviting into/accepting a place at an at-table game, like: Table fullness. Significant age difference. While I'm aware a lot of DMs/players here have mentioned their age diverse...