Recent content by Tonguez

Player buy in is the bggest factor, players need to accept theyre playing vunerable chatacters in tense situations. The DM provides the tension but its meaningless if the players dont allow themselves to take the ride

The only one I an think of off hand is Wuthering Heights where PC stats are Rage, Despair and Decrepitude.

Baby Franklin gets sent to a distant planet and lands near a small town in Kansas

Shade-9's optics narrowed as he focussed on Loklafd's every movement, shifting his weight low and centered as they approached the waterfall, leaning back to stabilize, his paddle held flat across the bow to brace and balance the craft... bring it on!

Shade-9 matched the cadence of Loklafd's rhythmic paddling mimicking the subtle shifts in balance and stroke length necessary for optimal glide. Without looking over from his stroke the warforged initiated a low vocal exchange: "you are genasi?" he stated to Aywin, his tone inquisitive, not a...

That pretty much covers every single rpg in existence - your edit cuts it down to maybe 90% of them I suppose "its all D&D" is a valid poisition to take would you place Spelljammer as not DnD or is it still Kitchen-Sink High Fantasy?

I thought it was enjoyable, nowhere near as good as Dardevil but infinitely better than Secret Invasion. Its got a young black urban theme which I'm probably not the audience for, but the storytelling doesnt drag on like some ghetto dramas do. So far I'd rank it as maybe on the level of Luke...

Shade-9 readying the kayak with Aywin nodded his agreement, Loklafd was certainly competent on the water, but there was no need for him to accompany their strike team, at least not beyond the river crossing. The warforged set himself the task of adjusting the kayak loads for efficient weight...

Fantasy focussed game with class and level structure and attributes system

Merlin the Wizard was also a half-demon so that trope is much older than Gandalf and how is it better having a party that all have beaks, horns, tusks or scales but who all behave like humans anyway and are all treated like 'normal people' because prejudice doesn't exist even if your granddaddy...

It would be interesting how they work the dual plane mechanics into a DnD adventure, its just a Feyrealm/Shadowfell equivalent with some extra tribe heritages, but what a transformation means in the middle of play could be impactful. I'd still prefer Eldraine

Determining that Cave Team had formed a well rounded unit, Shade-9 turned his focus to the remaining teams. His negotiation and deception protocols were not optimized and self-analysis told him that direct engagement at the Gatehouse or Watchtower was statistically disadvantageous. Thus after...

So is the choice of character species meaningful/impactful to the story in anyway or were they just selected to be edgy? I dont mind monster parties per se but with Ravenloft gothic sensibilities being so humanocentric, how does it play out? Is it a party of weird but somehow the one 'normal'...

personally I hate the cover - especially the presentation of the 5 characters, it is what is keeping me away from investing in the book/audio until I can find a free version {Do I count as a grumpy old grognard now?}

I've used Torquemada the Mad Inquisitor who gets elected as Grand Hierophant and begins a crusade against magic uses and demi-humans (actually inspired by the 2000AD comic rather than real history) Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell as himself (a Puritanical Tyrant) The Sun King Louis as a...