Recent content by RenleyRenfield

I have a whole PBTA style guide document we have been using for RuneQuest, here ya go! (link)

Wow you took a wrong assumption and ran with it! :) Rando off the street implies very strongly: "not sourced from any community in particular, just a random gamer as random gets". I myself have wandered many big conventions, walked up to random people who were milling about, and offered to...

In regards to the bold = I hear that a lot online here in this forum. "my group will only play D&D" (vampire on occasion) Which is so odd, because its sooo opposite here. My group will may any strange game we come across, like...anything. Getting rando off the street to play something...

Another thing to do when looking for new players - don't start with a campaign. Treat it like a convention game: Set a fun spot to play time box it o 3 or 4 hours. Run pre-generated characters. Run the game as D&D or Apocalypse World, a published game, no house rules (other than a very minor...

Funny side note: i was yesterday years old when I first heard/read the term Crpg... and I am nearly 50 :P For me, until 2020, it was just "RPG" or "JRPG" = computers. And "Roleplaying" was = D&D et al.

Oh gosh you are right! AL didn't restart here either. And then I think that led to downturn of Pathfinder Society... and we also had far more Savage Worlds "Savages" .... ahhhh.... I was never part of any of that (though I was aware of it.) But I was told it has a huge decline year over...

I am late to this, but hey = anytime I look for new players = this helps = C.A.T.S. method of session 0 (link) It does not guarantee I find the perfect player - but it does take those players i do find and let them know pretty much day 1 if our playerstyles and rpg desires are compatible...

Myself personally, I don't know a single person who roleplays on a computer (like roll20). Other than I am aware people on this forum do. I also just ran many games at a local convention and out of at least 50 gamers, none of them used any VTT of any kind. Out of over 1000 there, that was the...

Careful sir! This makes me want to turn this into a Cortex appreciation thread ... ;) I could flood it with things I love about Cortex!

I think maybe there is a lot being lost here, dunno where you got any of that. Let's recap. You wanted an example of how metacurrency was more than mere "player wants extra power/control over game" so I gave that. You wanted to know how MHR tied its meta currency to in-game and in-world...

This is not even remotely true....like not even close. From series to series, sometimes even from comic to comic, we see the Hulk or Wolverine vary in what they can accomplish or suffer. Some vary quite a bit more, like Shadowcat or Gambit... its messy, and MHR mirrors that perfectly. But in...

I dunno how anyone can consider any super hero anything to be 'too narrative'. Considering comic books are kinda the defining factor of "rule of cool who cares about reality" :P As well, the thing to consider about Cortex is that is its one of the only games where its metacurency is also...

Has anyone played much Cortex Primer here? Especially Marvel Heroic Roleplaying.... I have a hack of Cortex for Exalted (here) It was the first game I played where metacurrency was actively fun, i looked forward to the spending and gaining of "Action Points" (or plot points whatever any...

Ohh ohh! Here is another one for ya! = Run a game where combat and harm is not allowed or even possible. Not as in you run away from everything, but that all problems big and small, life and death - are resolved via some other way, one that never causes harm, damage or loss of agency. A...

Fun idea = start with blank paper, then just run an adventure for your group. No character sheets, no rules, not even set dice. As you need to make things matter, write it down. Character does a strong thing? write down 'strong' and give them a bonus for doing strong things. GM need NPC to...