Recent content by Reynard

Does anyone here have Incredible Creatures? if so, what do you think? https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/544239/incredible-creatures-adversaries-for-daggerheart

I'm not so sure. Remember that LLMs are based on training data, and relative to material by GMs there just isn't that much by or of groups of players. There are actual plays, of course, but in the grand scheme that is a very small data pool and completely lopsided toward professional players.

You are right, but that is what I mean: I want to run a game about adventurers that matches what adventuring really is. D&D adventurers do not have a real world analog because there are no dungeons full of traps and treasure, nor can one simply punch their way to saving the world.

While true, nobility also often wants to associate with the famous scoundrels of the world. Aristocrats in the real world absolutely fawned over the Victorian and Edwardian adventurers of their day. And of course the adventurers embraced it because they always needed funding. That is something...

On Wednesday, I ran a first session of my new monthly Daggerheart campaign. On Thursday I ran like the 30th session of my ongoing D&D 2024 campaign. One thing I really missed during the latter was Hope and Fear from Daggerheart. Not so much the metacurrency aspect, but the narrative informative...

I think it is a reasonable and interesting way for the world to operate, but one thing I have gleaned over 40 years in this hobby is that players can't abide rude NPCs. It almost always turns into a mess. Generally I think it is because players know the commoners are not a threat and so they can...

I totally forgot about the rest generated Fear. In any case, I have never run into a situation where I was devoid of fear, which means even if the PCs are enjoying a run, I could always interrupt.

This just running a normal game.

Any given PC roll in combat has a notably higher chance of handing the spotlight back to.the GM than to another player (the exact chance being dependent on the difficulty). If one experiences a run where the players keep the spotlight and never generate fear, check their dice...

I find this strange because while solo RPGing can be engaging, I don't think it is very much like "roleplaying" at all and is more like either discovery writing, or boardgaming, depending on the sort of solo gaming you are doing.

While this description isn't inaccurate, it does cherry pick the more traditional elements and completely ignores the very long list of weird elements.

I don't think there is any indication that Crows is "retro." It is always dungeon crawler with gear based advancement using a modern game engine as a foundation. Unless you just call any dungeon crawler "retro" that assessment doesn't make any sense. Just by way of example, there are as many...

In a perfect world, conversions are unnecessary because adventures are intentionally designed for the game they are supposed to be used with. I think you must inevitably and necessarily lose something in the conversion, and a well designed thing should be experienced in the system it was made...

I think LevelUp is going to be the most help here. That said, 5E is not a point buy system. You are going to have to wing it a lot.

If Strahd has to go back to print, I could see them updating it.