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Cortex Prime does something like this by using it's Challenges module (https://www.talesofxadia.com/compendium/rules-primer/playing-the-game#ChallengesOvercomingExtendedObstacles) and it's Timed Action mode. The later is the more familiar turn-based individual tracking action (aka 'standard'...

That said and in addition, in my experience even a standard 5 orcs in a room can also work and be an engaging encounter with properly chosen orcs (a pair or trio of brutes, a solider, leader, maybe a lurker). The tactical bits can be there to make for a solid base, and then every bit you add on...

The system is very much tied into what makes the game wonderful, facilitating world creation during play and allowing for both lightweight pastoral exploration as well as deeper trauma healing-type experiences. Fortunately, as a separate imprint it can stay fully in its current form w/o needing...

Congrats to Possum, Jay, and Ruby for this! Wanderhome is an amazing piece of work.

Definitively a woot! for the Crooked Floor reference! Maybe it's my nostalgia speaking, but I'd love a variant where it's semi-truce area where everyone trades, run by a group who worships and restores the lights (and hope that the light keeps the dark ones away). Still opportunities for areas...

I put down weekly, though it's closer to 1.23 times per week, as I have a weekly group + a monthly group. :) (Ok, in reality since we do miss some weekly games it averages out to less than weekly... :P)

Suddenly I want to see Honest Ed's miraculously re-emerging from the energies unleashed by the Hodgepocalypse... :D

In my main group, our system choice is dependent on what campaign/world/story we want to play in. Right now for rules we are splitting our time between D&D 4e, Cortex Prime, Troubleshooters, and my own RPG system (called the Aurora RPG engine). Our currently dormant games use(d) 2d20, 5e...

Looking at all the character sheets I have completely-healthily-no-obsession-here designed, I'd say about 400. ;) Oh! For a single character for a single game... well in that case, usually I try to keep it to 1 double-sided letter-sized page, max. This keeps everything handy and only...

IIRC, 1-2 soldiers was the recommended maximum to include. At face value Brutes often look to be tougher/meaner, but their lower defenses means they go down quicker (and more satisfyingly).

Multiclassing in 4e, especially the power-swap feats, is interesting. I've oft toyed with getting rid of needing a feat to swap powers (ie once you take the entry level MC feat you can eventually mimic the swap feats w/o spending them) -- often, swapping the feat may give more flavour and...

Ayup, that's the path to take to create or adjust a non-MM3/MV opponent. The "halve hitpoints, double damage" "fix" that is commonly bandied about was both a) not what MM3-math did and b) if memory serves came from a very specific instance someone was choosing to do for a very specific reason...

I wouldn't go that far. As I noted upstream, a lot of the marketing humour at the time was very inside-baseball/self-referential that would've confused newcomers. They surely misjudged how certain things might land (again, like satire or sarcasm it's likely going to go awry with some), but I...

Hahahahaha... I totally need to make it happen in game sometime now. :D

Bands, satellites, doppelgangers, the loo?

Not yet, anyway... ;) (Now I'm thinking of a Blood-Bowl-esque tabletop soccer game, hmm)

Understandable; I've installed the builder on a few machines at home and there's a bit of a learning curve to do so (I've now got those steps in a text file for easy reference). It's smooth once that's done fortunately.

I'll let the besmirchment of felines slide ;) But, ouch, yeah too close to home, too real. Maybe this is the true, 100%, through line heart of D&D across all editions: the ability to continually flork up in a string of the most mortifying (perhaps literally for the "mort" part for the...

I'm still waiting for time to post my own 'what would you tweak to make a new version of 4e' thing, but adding a core 'controller-y' feature to each controller class would be one of them. The Protector Druid got one with Nature's Growth, so it could be that kind of encounter-level power or a...

I would say a big yes! I had a warlock playing in one of the 4e campaigns that constantly was doing controllery things that even to this day I often have to remind myself that a Warlock is a striker class. :P I will use this as an excuse to drop my favourite description of the 4e roles: A...