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The best thing about Cypher/Numenera for me was it was easy to learn and run. It requires very little preparation and the GM is basically just deciding difficulty numbers from 1-10. It requires the least prep of any system I've encountered. This is a big plus. My short-term experiences with...

With Numenera I picked up the basics very quickly. Within 2-3 sessions I understood it. I played a whole campaign of Shadowrun and never understood the rules. Everyone was constantly trying to explain to me. Four years later we started another Shadowrun campaign. I still don't understand it.

Yeah, this is one reason why I dislike Tier 4 and upper Tier 3 play. The slowness of getting through turns due to multiple actions per character and analysis paralysis becomes acute. And I myself have sometimes been guilty when running very high level characters.

That's impressive. I started with 5E in 2015 after sitting out 4E. I have never played in an ongoing 5E campaign that reached 19th-20th level. The closest we ever came was a campaign which started at 3rd level and ran to 15th. Then the DM jumped us to 17th level for a final story arc which...

Level 1 passes quickly in our games too (thank god) but we tend to sit at Levels 2-4 for quite some time. Level 4 in particular seems to take forever but maybe that is partially because it is right before the game gets interesting for me. I would say on average we hit Level 5 after a dozen...

Yikes, if I had to spend four sessions at Level 1 I think I would start screaming and or quit. lol

There has long been a sacred cow in D&D of starting at Level 1 (or at least in Tier 1). Campaigns burn out before the high levels of play are reached. Since people are not playing it WoTC spends little time developing high level play. It feels unfinished. I dislike both Tier 1 and Tier 4...

I like point buy because it gives the player more control and starts all PCs on an equal playing field.

Max at first level. After that the player has the option to take the average or roll (no rerolls).

I prefer when all players are working from an equitable set of numbers. While this can most easily be achieved with point buy it is also possible with rolling. 4d6 drop lowest placed and those scores are used for all PCs instead of everyone rolling individually.

Generally speaking we use point buy. When we have rolled it has been some variation on 4d6 drop lowest placed. The results which have caused the most unhappiness is when there is a big disparity between the scores of one PC and another. Such as when one player rolls 18 17 15 14 14 11 and...

We created our own characters the first time I played GURPS. To make matters worse, I am caster obsessed and insisted on making a caster. I realize that was my choice but it was what I wanted to play. The character creation process took many, many hours and gave me a headache. Only one...

If you like an extremely complex TTRPG you will probably like it. For me it was too much -- I didn't understand it and didn't like playing it.

I was wondering how BG3 players like to compose their party. What I have found works for me is: 1. Front line warrior -- Battlemaster Fighter 12 (Lae'zel) or Berserker Barbarian 5/Thief Rogue 4/Champion Fighter 3 with tavern brawler feat (Karlach). 2. High dexterity archer with sleight of...

I really want to play a heartrender.

Fine for the group but poorly for me. This was our first session back after 3 months because the person hosting the game had a subdural hematoma. I went down in combat twice and struggled to remember the rules. Everyone else was at 50% of their HP or better.

I've never gotten her because I have always killed Minthara. But from what I understand you can potentially find her in Moonrise Tower in Act 2 where she is being sentenced to death by Ketheric Thorm for her failure at the Druid's Grove. You pretend you are a true soul and then head down to...

That is interesting that the British peerage have an accent distinct from the non-peerage upper classes. As an American, I have never noticed the difference between the accent of the peerage upper class vs. non-peerage British solicitors/professors/business executives, etc. But I can hear the...

The discussion about the companions accents is interesting. As an American I am not as familiar with British accents as some here. But I did start wondering about how the companions accents match their class background (and I mean social class not D&D character class lol). Astarion (a former...

Raphael's theme and Alfira's "Weeping Dawn" were my favorite musical moments in the game.