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I mean, that’s what Experiences and Help are for. A TN of 13 with a +2 modifier is already a 72% chance of success; just over half the...

That’s entirely a feature of the XP/action system, and not anything inherent to the world design though. Grab a similar pressure cooker...

I’ve been fiddling around with target numbers. I believe the general rule of thumb for success chance in 5e is 70%? Given how crits...

It’s kinda hilarious how Google has both one of the best agentic-LLM solutions out there in gemini-pro, and then routinely shows off one...

FITD games tend to be compact and focused yeah. My Stonetop game is at 62 sessions of player-driven play, and it’s a PBTA (although...

Depends how you define a “campaign,” but generally an arc of play is 20-25 sessions unless you take steps to reduce XP gain (the math...

Elden Ring is an explicit influence, along the recent(ish) The Green Knight movie!

With the huge emphasis on community ties in both mechanics and flavor, it's quite appropriate that Heroes of Tara would add more...

Chapter 2, Rules for Player Characters: Economy and Barter System Given that the setting of Heroes of Tara is very explicitly...

Rules for Player Characters: Backgrounds, Geasa, Feats, and Skills Covering everything else relevant to PCs that isn't equipment or...

Session life?

I've been playing Blades in the Dark lately, and a D&D-esque hack of it I wrote myself. It is very open to player initiatives, and very...

Ok, imma grab one of your adventures for that alone! I also use them everywhere in prep now.

Yup. Tophy and The Between taught be love momenets so they go into everything I do now.

Oh cool, mixing in some DS-esque pattern learning with making it easy for a GM to run. That’s real neat leaning into “this game is a...