Recent content by Retros_x

This feels almost insulting, at least quite the patronizing gatekeeping. "You are not actually playing, you are playtesting" lol wtf. Short campaigns still can evolve character development, "real" storytelling, and "real" character exploration. You don't need a multi-year heavily plotted...

Well, Part 2 is not just about Joel and Ellie anymore, so evidently the story is not just about that. Although in my opinion Part 2 is still a lot about Joel and Ellie, even if he dies at the beginning. In the game the flashbacks about their relationship spread over the full game and the talk on...

The series used "Seattle Day One/Two/Three" in each episode to clarify the timeline of Ellies actions in Seattle. The ending starting all over again with "Day One" indicates we are now back in time. The dream sequence... I guess you mean the scenes with Joel and Ellie in episode 6? They were not...

When I was a student subs where definitely worth it - But as a real adult I quit almost all my subscriptions recently because I realized I just can't manage to play so many games and watch so many movies. And often the stuff I want to play or watch is NOT included or I have to wait multiple...

I think that was the best approach so non-game viewers know what to expect and will not be completely surprised by Abby centric episodes for half of the season.

Exactly this - but this is also the reason why homebrews like @Reynard suggests here are working better. Basically each hitbox is a single encounter that taxes the party and no matter how much your burst damage is, it will be only enough for one of these.

Knowledge skills don't get any love from me haha. If I could I would abandon them in total. I describe the world incl. monsters, if a PC might know about it due to background I tell them the information they need. I only roll on knowledge skills if there is an actual action and stake involved -...

This makes me a bit more curious again about Daggerheart because I am one of these in the middle of that Venn diagram. As a player I like to powergame while going deep into roleplay (its not mutually exclusive). As a DM I like fulfilling narratives, like to include player input into...

If you don't find any reason to try out new stuff, than of course be happy with the usual. But there are people who complain about D&D, are not happy with it, homebrew it to death, but refuse to try out new systems because "they don't have time to learn them" and I don't understand that. I think...

If you both follow the discussion upthread you will see that I am 100% with you. I love the mix of aesthethics and styles in Eberron and damn right in my Sharn people run with chain/plate and swords/javelins while solving noir crimes. I thought you dislike armor in the setting of Eberron...

Frodo who famously did live in a 1920 art nouveau setting. Ok but so to understand correctly - you actually have fighter in plate armor running around in your fantasy 1920 new york.

Unfortunately WotC did exactly this with an official bestselling module :) Siderant about Tomb of Annihilation, has nothing to do with SD: But what you write is ultimately the downfall of this module where the last dungeon is based on ToH. I am a player in a ToA campaign that ran for two years...

So you forbid armor in your Eberron game? Or flavor the chainmal as a trenchcoat that can catch bullets? Players with armor are forbidden to take the train because of optics? How did you deal with the fact that all pseudo-medieval gameplay elements (swords, armor, bows, crossbows etc.) are still...

Because 99,5% of all combats will not be airborne in 5e. You definitely will need 3rd party supplements for that. IMO i would go for an abstract system that doesn't try to measure height differences in feet and also doesn't try to involve real physics too much. Players and DMs often already...

Its a fantasy setting so we easily can just grab aesthetics and world building elements and mix them wildly. As you say it has 1920 elements, but also huge influences from other eras too and thats fine. We don't need the setting to have one specific real earth era connected to it, its a kitchen...