Recent content by zakael19

It's not my rule, I'm just sharing how quickly the decision making tends to flow at my tables; without counting clarification questions!

5 seconds or whatever to make a decision is not "you have 5 seconds to speak." The players in my PBTA games generally make a decision very quickly on their action when they get spotlighted, but they might ask for a clarification or two on the fiction before launching into their action.

Your outline above sounds good, and coming from the OSR-adjacent direction I think you’re already primed to go usable information dense over prose. I keep playing around with how I organize town/city style stuff, but my goal general is: Keep it to a paragraph. A bit of evocative wording that...

As somebody running a game using the NCS right now, it has nowhere near the scaffolding of, say, Doskvol to really bring the city to life by opening and going. It’s actually a little frustrating how much I need to add in and flesh out, even if it does give a lot of good ideas.

Where I think Doskvol's details really shine are in, well, the Details portion of each district + the way they extend the blurb which tells the GM how to convey that portion really well. It's a super succinct way to share with the table the tenor and vibe of each part of the city in a distinct...

Random thought I had: if you wanted to take DH's core resolution and game-running mechanics and build your own deep hack, are Domains really required? Like, I can conceive of just doing class-build type things where as long as you've got a decent selection at-level to create opportunity costs...

Blades in the Dark’s Doskvol is my top tier example of usable city. I think it’s the way it organizes districts and then gives each a distinct flavor up front, followed by a selection of marquee POIs and a handful of NPCs? Super easy to slot something the group needs in, and when I built a more...

Such joy, her gala performance was also wonderful!

When you're grappling with somebody, you're not picking them up or dragging them around like deadweight. If you were, you wouldn't be grappling. Moving somebody you're actively contesting with as they squirm around and move their feet and try to regain control is a matter of technique and using...

The GMs book itself has a set of chained adventures in it that are aimed at getting a table from 1-3; and another set of short quests tied to the areas in the little valley setting.

Your contention was "its an immense shafting of martials" and I provided a whole list of ways in which instead of that, the "Defense as active option" allows for Nimble's core math and design space to work; while giving each martial class a unique set of options for managing damage while fitting...

Coulda sworn we beat on teh armor thing a bit with some of these same names in the Nimble thread, but the different martial have specific things that let them Take Damage in different ways. Berserkers shrug it off directly when raging using their Fury Dice; Commanders can build to focus on...

Stonetop is final, shipping, and available for retail sale! (link can be toggled between PDF and hardcopy)

According to the US Copyright folks, your contribution is copyrightable (but it's a painted mini, so maybe not...) under the human creation guidelines; the AI portion not. If you provided an underlying coastline sketch & some notional buildings, those would be copyrightable as well. Art is in...

Ok, that makes sense - His Majesty the Worm’s battle zones are like that, I think the author uses the decks of a ship as his analogy.