Recent content by Reynard

My kids are in college now, but when they were playground age the things still allowed running pewpew games etc. But it is true that I have not been on a playground in a decade.

I have never regarded or even heard of playgrounds impeding children's creativity. It seems ridiculous on its face, based if nothing else on personal experience on the monkey bars 40 years ago.

I said "Why are the APs so wordy? It would be easier to run there were more bullet points and fewer walls of text." He said "A lot of our customers buy APs to read them so they are written for that purpose." I don't think it is controversial to say that in general APs (and D&D adventures too)...

Here is the text for the first newpaper article I am going to post for my Daggerheart supers convention games to gin up interest as well as introduce villains, pregens, setting elements, and lore: ---------- Arcanopolis Eye 3rd Highward, 2390 Admiral’s Ball Robbed by Vampire Witch, Thwarted by...

I'm not sure it was "meme nonsense." In an exchange on the forums where I said that the wordiness of the APs made them harder to run, James Jacobs replied directly and said that many customers only ever read them and so the prose was important.

It's simple. First you decide how you feel about stabbing people. Then you decide how you feel about stealing from their corpses. And where those overlap, that's your personality!

The distinction I was imagining -- again, this is just spitballing, to see if there is some there there -- was sort of focused on the platonic ideal of the player motivated sandbox combined with player setting input, versus a map with a bunch of points of interest but still player generated...

If it is linear, it isn't any of these things.

I tend to think of "evil" in terms of harm caused. With mind control, there are a few aspects that we can use to measure that. First, is the victim aware that they are being controlled but have no capacity to do otherwise? That is traumatic and harmful and therefore evil. Even if the victim is...

I really like Prestige classes as a concept -- and dome were even well implemented. The only reason I did not suggest them for my theoretical 6E is because I really think talent trees is the way to go. I suppose you could have "Prestige talents" that unlocked in a similar way though.

I think Skyrim is closer to a theme park, since most of those experiences are so simple or linear.

One other 6E demand: make the default campaign length years instead of months again, and no longer have "campaign length" adventures as the main adventure support.

I would be very careful about making extreme changes to home base without explicit player buy in. A home base is less a part of the GM's world than it is an extension of the PCs themselves.

You could flavor the IC discord chat as CRIMR, where criminals go to trade secrets and swipe right on partners for their next heist!

Sure, as long as the character is in as much peril as usual. The thing is, lots of players don't want their character getting killed while they are not at the game, so their character is handwaved to be "watching the horses" or whatever. And last I check, watching the horses was not a challenge.