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An consequently, a infinite number of "unlucky" rolls will allow you to continue to use psionic powers. Yes its a little weird but I really need to see it in play to see how it works. Also the die can't become larger than its starting size.

The psionic die is an interesting feedback loop. I'm looking forward to seeing this in play.

My group had the exact opposite experience. We tried Fantasy Grounds and just could not get everyone to connect, then moved to Roll20 and it worked pretty well. The thing that really hooked us was that we use D&D Beyond and there is a plug in called Beyond 20, which makes the whole process of...

I'm running both Deadlands Classic (in the City of Dodge City) and my homebrew mecha game (basically a complete reboot of the Robotech universe). They are both on Obsidian Portal if anyone is interested in a link.

That is correct, natural 20, baring any other circumstances = dead. My son's character in my campaign has a vorpal moonblade and it has saved the entire group many times but the big drawback is that you can kill someone even if you don't want to. This has happened at least once in the campaign.

A good number of my campaigns have lasted over 1 year, usually 2-3 years. D&D 2E, D&D 3.5E, D&D 5E, Dresden Files, FATE, and my home brew mecha game (4-5 campaigns over the last 10 years). I normally run 2-3 games per week and I would say that 2 of them are usually long term (2+ years)

I agree with most of your points and I have some suggestions that have worked for me. 1) For my games, I think the background features are the best part of each background and I started letting my players select an additional background feature at each tier (so one more at 5th, 11th, and 17th...

Are there any mentions of the Gundwynd noble family? They are a personal favorite of mine.

I think you've already solved your problem. If you want death to occur at 0 HP, then just do it with the understanding that characters are going to go down and stay down. There is nothing wrong with making the game extremely lethal as long as everyone at the table is in agreement. If you feel...

My wife and I run Open Gaming Convention in New Hampshire. We've always had a large number of non-D&D games available. One year we wanted to rename the con due to all of the Cthulhu games that ran. This year I counted only 7 events that were D&D or Pathfinder in our current list (which does...

That looks awesome. I'm going to start doing this for my convention games.

I've been using this system for quite some time in my Mekton game and it works well. I even chose certain cards (Ace of Spades) to give the player's a bonus when drawn. This was because they were members of the Black Aces squadron.

In my current campaign, the player's slew the goddess of Luck (Tymora/Beshaba) and I converted the game mechanics to 2d10. For natural 20s, I just go with rolling doubles on the dice and hitting with the total. For 19-20, I just did any time you roll doubles, hit or miss. As higher level...

I haven't heard anything other than a bunch of my friends who live all over New England have arrived. I definitely feel that I am missing a good con :)

I responded as well. The question about how much I have spent on D&D made me think about my cost of entertainment and its still the cheapest form of entertainment I have.

I really like the dice mechanic, where advantages and disadvantages don't give a numeric bonus or penalty but instead create boons and consequences for the roll. It is all the coolness of the funky dice from FFG without having to decipher them. BTW, I backed the project already.

45 here, started with the D&D Basic Set in summer camp, been playing and running all types of RPGs since. Now its mostly my home brewed mecha game, 5E, and Dresden Files.

I got mine from Vivyx this week and it is awesome, all thanks to OP :)

Well, it only costs them $25 or so since its store credit. Plus they don't have to pay someone to do it and, as someone mentioned, it is a parallel effort.

It is similar to how Star Wars Saga Edition does defenses.