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not a review but another world with lots of ideas at incredibly good value... The Fabulous City of Dunromin - The Ultimate Fantasy City...

I wrote a Blog Post about this a while ago. Our fave is OSRIC because it's stripped down but not soulless. The changes they have made...

I'd go as far as to say that in a lot of settings/genres, the players should know quite a bit about it (though as one can assume from my...

After a billion years of doing this, I've found the best setup for me is: #. Plain-English Room Title. Keywords. One-sentence overview...

I dunno- sounds absorbing!

So when it comes to settings and the fiction of the game in general, it is not necessarily exactly novelty I crave for, but it is some...

Mh, in terms of genre and setting I don't expect too much from the games itself, at the end the vibe of the game is largerly dependent...

Novelty is easier for the GM because you get to read the book. For players, while they claim to like novel ideas, often, they have a...

Surely the DM needs to know the setting but the players have to discover it? Although I suppose the characters would know something of...

The majority here seem to be fans of the Tropes and I would tend to agree. There is always space for something different though. I think...

I'd prefer a game that does something well, rather than one that does something new.

Yes. I didn't get into the whole alignment thing but you are quite correct, the d&d format has alignment to the core. I have tried doing...

I think it's inevitable. While they are technically different there's a huge amount of overlap, especially when it comes to the way that...

Not really. In RPG terms, "cosmology" is "how the universe is ordered." So, in D&D, that includes what a world is like, what all the...

In my own game, our universe is one of Nine Realms, and is the only one that functions like ours does. One is Void and home only to...