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The obvious model here is Dogs in the Vineyard, though of course it’s not a OSR/NSR game. You escalate through conflict stages (from...

I generally detest multiclassing systems because of stuff like this (and because of how hard actual mastery is); I’d certainly need some...

My sense is that it is 75% over-reaction from white room theorists. Yes, it is strong, but I'd try it at your table with your players...

...was it ever useful?

Not only is the chance of a payoff for all this accounting busy work low, but whatever gameplay fun there is to be had from roleplaying...

I actually do like some of the systems that make “consumable management” a somewhat abstracted thing, like Load in FITD or similar in...

• Freeform traits in a 1-20 scale, with levels of mastery do 21-40, 41-60, etc. anything you can solve problems with can be a trait, and...

Continuing to noodle away at "can I make this work for a 40k Dark Hersey" style game. What Domains do you think would be best suited to...

Darkest Dungeon the TTRPG?

The Mythic Britain & Ireland supplement for Vaesen.

What game is that from?

I have added another Free League cloth map to the walls!

You can play as the GM with a d20 and give the players a standard playing card deck. The "cards as randomizers" does allow for some fun...

Was going to recommend this! I think this is one of the most modern "ground-up" designs specifically to "make dungeon crawling fun" that...

There are two problems with mundane/associated resource; How it's done and what it represents. Stuff like encumbrance or resource die or...