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I'm seeing traditional players look at how Mercer runs DH and feeling a lot less negative towards the game. I like how mechanically it...

Oh, absolutely. Just look at Vampire the Masquerade. You have layers between the mortal and vampiric worlds. But part of why it worked...

As I recall, there were incarnations of the Round Table where each knight seemed to have an individual superpower either by themselves...

I don't think Zelda games qualify as RPGs, let alone CRPGs.

I agree with @Arilyn here: the "5E style GMs" will still have successful games, while moving toward fiction first play at their own...

Having thought about it more, I think the A5e legendary resistance mechanic is the right approach here. Effectively LRs work the same...

I'm not gatekeeping here like I've seen others.. just remarking on Mercer and this particular campaign. I'm glad the game seems...

Sure. Like I said, mercer runs it like her runs D&D. I am just saying that the game itself is not extremely militant about it in the way...

I'm all for short campaigns. I am working on adapting the Starfinder "Year of Era's End" metaplot into a level 6-10ish 2e adventure path...

I was using them as an example of a non-superhero setting where there are tiers of power as real things in the world of the fiction.

I'm not sure what tone I'm going for. This something that would be played 9 months from now, so I'll have a better idea closer to that...

The Knights of the Round Table in the romances were anime heroes, powers wise. Lots of crazy stuff happening there in a genre that is...

I also think that "campaign" works well even for shorter endeavors if each of those sessions is episodic and/or stand alone.

For me its the difference from running a war with many battles, and running a single battle. Though, if folks only play once a month and...

While I was in college I would move back home during the summers and run short campaigns. They were usually about 6 sessions long. They...