Recent content by Retreater

We average about 3 hours of actual play per session. I don't include a lot of "fluffy" stuff. I don't use verbose, purple language to describe unimportant details. I handwave extended travel scenes. I don't roleplay shopping sessions. My players don't like to belabor social encounters or...

Maybe my 5e campaigns are also blitzes? I've run campaigns like Rime of the Frostmaiden and Curse of Strahd to completion. They took around 6 months of weekly play - close to 20 sessions.

Well, if you look at the number of resources provided by level, consider the adversaries. These represent all the monsters, skill challenges, and social encounters provided in the game. Level 1: 66 adversaries Levels 2-4: 39 adversaries Levels 5-7: 22 adversaries Levels 8-10: 17 adversaries...

I started running my weekly Daggerheart campaign at the beginning of November. We've missed only a few sessions and play for about 3 hours. The characters are level 6 - in a 10-level game (which would be about equivalent to level 12 in D&D). So they reached level 6 in let's say around 10...

My interpretation after having watched the prequels recently was not that "they're not as bad as I remember." Instead, I think many contemporary Hollywood blockbusters have sunk to their level.

Ben's criticism that many people purchase DCC products "just to read them" - I'm not sure if that is uncommon for other publishers. I have many books across a spectrum of different publishers for different systems that I've never played. Some I have purchased without the intent to play. I don't...

You know, it's not even so much the City State of the Invincible Overlord project that got me. Goodman was honest about his intent behind it - using profits to pay for refunds, etc. I can recognize that the product isn't for me and even consider it "yucky" that Goodman would willingly partner...

He liked the art in DCC and admitted that it was one of the games that got him interested in the OSR. He dislikes the adventure design: wall of text room descriptions, linear adventures, bad layout.

Questing Beast did a "negative" review of Goodman's products - saying he would never play or run them and criticizing the design. I wouldn't call him a fan. However, Bob World Builder went all-in and curated a bundle of DCC products to advertise. For me, Goodman's products now have a ick...

It depends on the number of players we have. For the most part, we play without them. We're all busy adults, and when you start late or begin cancelling sessions for every time a player can't make it, you end up having very little time to play. If it's a planned absence and they want to leave...

Draw Steel was a bit too crunchy for me. I don't think I'll ever play it. I will wait and see what the new dungeon crawler RPG looks like. I'm not as eager these days to throw money at a company just because it's not WotC, so I doubt I'll buy it sight unseen like I did Draw Steel.

As fate would have it, Daggerheart proved to be the solution to many of my issues. I ran a one-shot for a podcast. One of the other guys from the podcast asked if I would run a biweekly campaign of it. He and his wife joined my wife and we have been playing it for a few months now. The game...

I can. But I get most stuff from Kickstarters or directly from the publisher - where I also get the PDFs. Additionally, my gaming purchases have just bottomed out. There's not much I want anymore.

A good Dark Sun book with an exciting implementation of psionics might be what gets me to run 5.24.

This is the first Christmas in probably 20 years I got no gaming-related gifts - well, I did get a t-shirt with a d20 on it. No boardgames, dice, minis, paint, brushes, rulebooks, or video games. I did get a President James Garfield Pez dispenser - so that was nice.