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All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

One of the reasons I like GM facing metacurrencies is because it helps alleviate the question of whether the GM was acting fairly. Don't...

I like meta-currencies. I also like the idea of having an interplay between the GM meta-currency and the player meta-currency, though...

[This is another htread in my ongoing exploration of foundational TTRPG elements to consider for Bucket: The RPG, my personal RPG design...

if you don’t mind doing some conversion, The Chronicles of Darkness books had slightly more combat systems, as I recall (like static...

Wow that’s very cool! Many, many years ago some friends and I threw together a very primitive MtG rpg together as a lark. It was...

Johnathan Tweet--who you will know from Ars Magica, D&D 3E, and 13th Age--worked on a Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game while at...

It depends a bit, I get big fae vibes from the Keepers of the Vine (who are very forest witch coded) and from the Prenderghasts (which...

Er, yes. I should have been more clear. I meant in terms of finding similar enough powers and capabilities. Using the families as...

Thanks for all the insights @The-Magic-Sword ! That was very helpful! Venators sound like they will be an interesting take on the...

Hell yeah! The book does have a lot of that lore/storytelling thing going on in it, but it's a lot more streamlined than the COFD...

It's 2am and I can't sleep so have bardthoughts. Bards are supposed to be the 5th man. In 5e, they're a spellcaster who can do social...

There are hidden costs to AI that I thing business overlook. There are the large data centers with expensive hardware and power draw...

As we argue about AI (AI is evil, AI is the future, etc.) here is a thought about what "AI" actually cannot do for RPG art. And then...

I'm in the process of more thoroughly reading Curseborn, so I'll check on both of these when I get to the combat chapter.