Recent content by Zetesofos

Best is hard to quantify, and I might give other suggestions depending on what things you need to know. BUT - I might start with Crispy's Basic's of Draw Steel:

Are you the main DM for your group. If so, you can always try "I'm running DS tonight", and don't make it a question :P

Something completely new. Its still in nascant stages (the devs are greyboxing it), but its unclear if it will be 2d6 or 2d10 system. Its being designed purely around classic, low or even no magic dungeon delving survival horror.

Space Fantasy, based on everything I've heard.

As an aside, but James Intracaso (lead designer) is noodling at a new project called Crows that is VERY much that desperate mercenary style game; where you don't have powers, your most valuable tools are your inventory, and dying is VERY likely.

It does. I've got about 50 sessions under my belt as part of a longer form campaign, and while its not a short learning curve - there does seem to be a point where these mechanics become intuitive, and then the players start to focus less on HOW does a rule work, and more about how to make a...

I suppose that's up to the person. A game system won't tell you someone's emotional disposition.

The question there in is "Do you not like those discussions because a) you don't have a good relationship with your players b) there are too many options to consider (decision paralysis) or c) the options don't feel exciting to discuss?

So, Its hard to say exactly where this misconception comes from; but from my experience - being a tactical game doesn't mean that you need to be 'good' at tactics to play it. I would say instead that the nature of the games design helps players who otherwise NOT good thinking in those terms FEEL...

I am. The main reason I feel is how much effort I had to do to build encounters for higher level characters, and how board players were whenever we DID eventually have combat. D&D has lots of character customization, and feels good to 'build' characters - but I've been playing 5e for years (and...

Looking back at the Riggs article, I wonder if the qualifiers of what a 'Golden Age' is might need readjustment. If the idea is that it was booming in economic sales, and zeitgeist online discussion - maybe. But I feel like more people are PLAYING games now than they were before; they're just...

Right, but are people ready to go home because it took to hours, and they only have an hour to play - or is it that the 2 hours was spent watching people do math while people looked at their phones or generally didn't have anything to do for an hour. If people don't like combat - that's one...

Many monsters have damage weakness or immunities that increase or decrease the final totals.

Most playtesters have found that 4-5 is the sweet spot. 3 players can work - though it could end up a little swingy (so Directors may want to go easy on the players for a bit to be safe). 6 or more players I think is doable, but importantly - Draw Steel isn't any FASTER at combat, it aims to...

This sort of psychologizing players for how they play is exactly the thing that makes people NOT want to stream publically. Matt is on record on his twitch streams stating that the delian tomb game is some of the best fun he's had in any rpg in all his years. Take that as you will, but I don't...