Recent content by Retreater

Yay. I can finally read 5.24. :)

I'm in a strange position when I'm realizing that my primary hobby for the past 20 years maybe hasn't been as enjoyable as I like to think. Of course, I can look back and enjoy a few moments and the friends I met along the way; however, it isn't comparable to the stress and frustration I've had...

So I decided to pivot the group to a dungeon adventure (the Lost City from Goodman's OAR series, if you're curious). There's a degree of roleplaying and faction play to get the more story-interested players, but plenty of traps, puzzles, and combats for the other two. I'm going to save my...

One of the players ran a session of Alice is Missing several months ago. It was mostly GMed by using the app, but it was a nice experience. No one else is interested.

TLG has 18 books in development across 4 crowdfunding campaigns (Codex Infernum, Codex Exaltum, Adventurers Armory, Monstrous Armory, War Mounts, Living Fantasy, Essential Facts and Things, The Canting Crew, Weyland Smith Catalog, Pantheons, Extraordinary Book of Names, Guide to Adventure...

My group is a difficult situation. First, one of my players is my wife. She loves gaming, and basically won't find another group without me because of social anxiety. Second, another player is my next door neighbor. He's a fine enough guy to play with. Third, the two remaining players are...

I started my most recent campaign full of excitement about a month ago. I picked a new campaign setting (Eberron). I left confusing new systems to get back to something more familiar, but with new options (Level Up - A5e). I did research and created interesting NPCs. I designed an...

The "official, plain" character sheet: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f30140933f50e61c794e1a3/t/6174371ed1923915805f3930/1635006238699/Level_Up_CharSheet_BW.pdf

Kyle Brink was the last I heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/has-kyle-brink-left-wotc.705240/

Maybe. They've been hesitant to try OSR games and were really wanting something with tactical play and a lot of options. I talked them back from Pathfinder 2 to play A5E as a compromise.

My response is to create a dungeon so there's a flowchart of somewhat limited options. This will hopefully save me from planning for a multitude of eventualities, at least for a few sessions. Hopefully this will get the players to change their mindset to be more proactive.

I agree. I think that the simplicity of the concept is affecting my ability to explain it.

They're still running from site-to-site, collecting clues and doing nothing. I presented them with a village where the people were being charmed and tortured by fey. Them: "too bad - I guess we're gonna leave." Me: "so you just want to let these people die?" Them: "yeah - it's not really our...

They're still not getting the hang of skills. Ultimately, I think for my own sanity I'm going to default to the 2014 way of doing things just so they can write clear numbers on their character sheets. Every single time we make a die roll, it's "what's my bonus? do I get proficiency on this? do...

I voted for "Psion" in the poll and I'm a little disappointed to not get it. Oh well, maybe a 3rd party will make one.