Recent content by TiQuinn

I wouldn't have a problem with it. Some players just do not engage the game in that way. I much prefer to meet the players where they want to be met.

I'm not going to buy your book.

Yeah, that's my stance too. I will buy a game when I know I have a very reasonable chance of playing it in the near future, or unless it's at such a deal of a price (like a HumbleBundle) that it's an easy pickup for me. But once I've reached that criteria, then a few hundred dollars is not...

Prolly a good thing.

Yeah, rat confirmed.

I would say that's the same for virtually any character. Wizards are apprentices, but apprenticeship didn't come for free - why does that never get questioned in games? Fighters probably received training in the military typically, but why is it assumed they have no further obligations? Cleric...

But you also had more spells that had little to do with combat or were useful outside of it: Push, Read Magic, Audible Glamer, ESP, Forget, and the myriad Detection spells. You had racial abilities like Detect Slope, Detect Traps, Detect Concealed Doors, Determine Direction, etc. High stats in...

Yeah, I think there were more rules in the early edition to support the idea that the game wasn’t supposed to be about combat per se - 1e and 2e have stronger exploration “pillars” than 5e, IMO. But if the published modules are an indication - people liked combat even from the early days of the...

This whole “I have the power to kick people from the table” thing sounds very boastful. Hopefully that’s not how people handle such situations in real life.

Oh, now I just smell a rat.

Just my two cents: if you can phrase questions or posts in terms of existing game systems, that’s helpful, even if ultimately you want to apply answers to your own game system. What isn’t generally helpful, at least to me, are threads about a game system that I can’t really see. There have been...

I think D&D has definitely picked a lane and survival simulation is not it.

Games that attempt to strip out bits and pieces of other games and slap them together in a sort of Frankenstein approach rarely work well. Add on top of it, that the charts are completely up to the GM to interpret and this indicates to me that no thought or rigor has been put into the ruleset...

I’m sorry but this sounds like a terrible way to design a game system.

As Payn and Cadence mentioned, check out the community rules - they are the hard and fast guidelines for conduct. As far as alternate systems, I’ve played Shadowdark, Shadow of the Weird Wizard, various PBTA games, Mothership, Forbidden Lands, Lancer, and DCC in the past two years. This was...