Recent content by Piperken

From how you described it, it feels like Home, Common Species, Culture and to a lesser extent, History, would be the categories to spend more time on? (How X met others is something that'd work better when you're with the other players.)

One thing to keep in mind is there are long traditions everywhere for what is described above e.g. in wu xia novels and their derivatives, combat is about this. Oral stories about different gods/goddesses, heroes/heroines etc. carry these elements. Think of The Iliad! And in cultures where...

Yes, the implied setting isn't; my underlying thought for suggesting was it being a Borg (therefore light & modular), characters generated from it + fight rules can be placed easily into a setting the OP wants.

Both of these were great reads. I have to say from this Afterword, that on a surface level there isn't collaboration, but collaboration absolutely occurred between you both! It was a sad irony to read the author exhorts participants to "...respect your opponent...by playing generously," yet...

Two suggestions come immediately to mind; they're both pretty different: Tales of the Old West (Year Zero Engine) Frontier Scum (Borg inspired)

Presently Running: Dragon Heist (a5e/D&D 2014, 2025): Alexandrian (remix) structure; added The Curse of Trollskull Manor to Chapter 2, replaced Dragon Heist faction missions with individual, converted modules. PCs have retrieved the Stone and possess one eye. Brindlewood Bay (Carved from...

Someone was kind enough to link this elsewhere, I thought it'd be of interest for players, GMs, and aspiring game designers when considering the role of gear (in your game) and adjudicating situations: How the Turner Twins are Mythbusting Modern Gear

This likely won't handle all of the issues you mention in your original post, but I recently watched this video by John Harper. While it specifically was done to help D&D GMs with the BitD playloop, I found when I used this scaffolding on occasion for presenting situations, I got much less "I...

Initial thoughts. I don't know if these changes play well with your intention (being in close against multiple opponents = more dangerous, avoiding bogging down in play). There's ofc the fictional position that everyone in the scrum is focused on someone or something different, happens often...

You could peek at ShadowCity: Blood and Neon (Chubby Funster). It approaches V:tM, gazing towards OSR (Shadowdark), with a domain overlay that creates an experience similar to what you might find in the GTA series or similar. Relatively easy to find video read throughs etc. You could keep a lot...

Commenting to highlight a few of Arilyn's points; there's something intrinsic when you pick up a physical book, open it up and use it, just like it is when you make the choice to take notes by hand with a pen or pencil, try your hand at standee drawing, or attempt to draw a map on graph paper...

I would consider a high damage reduction of some kind; I have the same sentiment as Morrus in this regard (Doomsday isn't the only DC character that has straight up pummeled Superman). I'd switch Int/Wis, or at least lower Wis. Superman is very intelligent and comes from an advanced...

Reacher likes to do a lot of punching. :ROFLMAO:

Like Zardnaar + few others, I think CR 2 (or broken up among several monsters) is prudent; like a white room & PCs as you described. I could see CR 3, but if I were putting something like this together, I'd advocate for some environment/feature that could be leveraged by PCs to their benefit.