Recent content by zakael19

Had asked one of my players who I knew was in another game or two with local folks if anybody there might be interested in joining our game. One guy is, and although he wasn’t done with character creation and didn’t want to just jump in he came and spectated all 3 hours last night - which meant...

At least one person is running it besdies the writer, over at Deeper in the Game he did a series on Errant in 2024 talking about the classes and then how he approaches running it. I'm torn between this FITD / D20 fusion and Freebooters on the Frontier (PBTA/ B/X fusion) on the dungeon-crawly...

Your group sounds fascinating.

Stonetop tends to present “everybody knows / some might know / very few if anybody knows” levels of world details for things that recede into the deep past or esoteric topics. I find that’s a nice way to bin things, like of course everybody knows there’s demons that lurk in dark water but few...

Hash browns like a real home fries hash? the shredded Waffle House style? Blocks that are basically a big freaking tater tot? I went with fries. There's a bunch of different ways that can go, and they're almost all amazing.

I was literally cracking a joke dude. I know you really enjoy showing up in threads and staking out your personal preference position and hammering away at it to let us know that these specific opinions are out there, but you do almost always come across as an outlier even in a relatively...

It's still there for me...

I see Matt channeling his love of the ideas behind Red Hand of Doom into half of the core of his game's signature adventure.

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"average TTRPG is deeply invested in simulation and lore" factoid actually just statistical error. average TTRPG player cares minimally about lore and simulationism. Simulations Micah who lives on ENW & reads 3000 pages of lore a day is an outlier adn should not have be counted.

You're not really "tracking" that per se in that it's not ongoing. It becomes part of the action resolution, in the same way as calculating damage or hit/miss. DS! does have a lot more potential for cascading actions though, between forced move into circumstances + triggered actions (sometimes...

Yeah but while there’s a handful of people like you, threads like this wouldn’t exist if this was a common paradigm in the hobby.

This is a bit of an aside, One of the coolest PBTA “knowledge” moves is from Freebooters on the Frontier: “Establish When you introduce a potential fact and the Judge agrees that it might be true, say how you heard about it. When its truth is tested (now or later), roll +INT: on a 10+, it’s...

Sure, so it’s cool I didn’t say that! I just said that the wing of play which spends a lot of time and focus on the idea both in its community & actual rule-books generally in drawing a distinction for the newer player who may not be familiar is mainly the OSR+ in my experience. What you did...

This too, kinda going along @RenleyRenfield 's point WRT Tengu. I'll contrast this with a Forged in the Dark game I've run called Songs for the Dusk. It has 3 types of "people" in its post-post apocalyptic setting (heavy Destiny 2 vibes with some other stuff mixed in): Radiants (humans)...