Recent content by zakael19

ok if we're bringing AO3 into this...

One of my biggest struggles with GMing games is trying to get the incredibly well formed image of what's happening in teh fiction right this instant I have playing out verbally conveyed. Yet somehow, when I work with a real artist I can give them a general gist of what I'm looking for and in a...

There's a lot of advice out there from actual authors about writing, most of it tends to start with "just start writing."

I’m curious what the bundle pricing will look like. If it’s like $20 for additional licenses, I paid more then that total to support my table in a year of Roll20 D&D play and got a product that was endlessly frustrating.

YMMV, but I ran a WOTC campaign for a group that had played BG3 & were all “Critters” and wanted to play a D&D game for the first time. Most of them wanted to say cool stuff and I sometimes had to figure out exactly what skill they were trying to get to! Even just “I take a look around the room...

I've had players buy me roll20 subscription time; most of my Daggerheart players across (2) groups had bought the book before we started playing (significantly more $!) including some with Collectors Editions; folks have offered to defray costs across a wide variety of outlays I've done. For...

I really need to play a round of MFZ with some of my players who'd fit its vibe. The prompts are so cool, and really not the sort of thing I'd commonly see as the conversational structure in most games.

That’s interesting. The rules would make a great basis for a tactical CRPG as well.

Even in cases where we might take some time in a BITD etc game to discover what's happening next, that's been in the context of "what opportunities do we want to pursue" or "hey, did you want to follow up on faction A or B next time we play?" Typically in the context of framing out the next...

People pay $20-30 a session for paid DMing. If Codex truly makes it easier to run and play DS! then all the other VTTs (the "killer app" style thing), I would absolutely require players to pony up. I had players shelling out $40+ for individual books in D&D just for the hell of it, plus their...

I'm ok with MCDM trying something different than endless freaking subscriptions and purchases falling on the GM's shoulders. It's a Bold Move Cotton & etc, but if it's truly a premium experience that Just Works with quality automation and such it might change the paradigm. Our modern...

I can see them doing demo codes. That would be a perfect way to try a one-shot of like Road to Broadhurst or whatever and see if the players are committed enough (and find the VTT to be of enough value). IME, GMs are likely to spend $20-30 fairly casually on stuff. Otherwise they're clearly...

They mention having some sort of code bundle in the post which lets you do a "me and my 5 friends are all going to play DS! together." It also looks like it comes loaded with the full Delian Tomb adventure, and all the monster book stuff? For $15 or 20 per person that's a solid amount of fun...

Simply setting out ground rules and guidelines for the entire table with a clear statement of some sort of check-in procedure during a session 0 seems to go a long way to creating teh expectation that such dialogue will a) happen and b) be addressed as required over the course of play. Since I...

Big Patreon post about their Codex VTT. TLDR: going into EA on Steam, will be $30 full price single buy eventually, book & PDF purchasers / patrons / etc will get coupon codes. Does a ton of rules validation & assistance while playing, but will not prevent you from breaking the rules (or...