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I started in 2007 with a home brew rules system created by a friend and some of his gaming buddies. It was a generic system, and we used it for a Victorian-era gothic horror action game. (In retrospect, it was kind of like Rippers for Savage Worlds.) I didn't get super into roleplaying, though...

That's fair. Heinsoo and Tweet were definitely very overt about their intentions. I just wasn't sure how picky the OP was being about the definition of "not D&D."

I'm surprised I haven't seen any mention of 13th Age. Is that because it's too similar to D&D for people to consider it, or is it just not that popular? I've personally been wanting to try it out with my group as a possible replacement for 5e because I like a lot of the differences. I think the...

Ooh, that's a cool idea! Thanks!

Holy crap! Thanks!

While I have people's attention, I'm also worried that I'll be having trouble for the very final encounter of the campaign. The way things are set up, the BBEG is yet another lich, in this case Raugilath. That said, the intended final boss is Dendar, The Night Serpent, but the PCs are already...

All characters are level 16 and will be when they face Acererak and the atropal. Okay, so the major damage dealer is the tiefling swashbuckler rogue who recklessly throws himself into danger. Since the characters had previously gone through Curse of Strahd, he's a wereraven. (He volunteered to...

I'd been running the Adventurers League adventures for Tomb of Annihilation, but when I got to the point where the death curse was over, I realized that the players would feel cheated if they weren't the ones to stop it. As such, I had them go to the Tomb of the Nine Gods, and since it's mainly...

I'm a big fan of Numenera. It's technically sci-fi, I suppose, but the technology is so advanced that it seems like magic, and civilization has come back around to a quasi-medieval society. I also really like The Black Hack 2nd Edition. It starts out a bit like D&D, but it uses a roll-under...

I've played and run it a few times, and I really like it. It's what I'd be running right now if I weren't in the middle of a long-running 5e campaign. Unlike others, I actually really like the fact that attribute pools double as HP and XP can be used for rerolls and player intrusions. I think...

I'm not currently playing or running a sci-fi campaign, but I really want to get Esper Genesis to the table. The setting reminds me a lot of Mass Effect, which is one of my all-time favorite settings.

"Beat[ing] it into submission" is kind of the best way I can think of to describe making Roll20 as functional as I'd like it to be. Some of my players have figured out how to write complicated macros that accomplish various actions, but that remains a mystery to me. I really wish Roll20 had the...

In retrospect, it surprises me that Masters of the Universe became as popular as it did because of how friggin' weird it is. It's a very unique blend of fantasy and science-fiction that doesn't feel very mainstream at all. I also feel like none of the fiction based on the property has lived up...

Out of curiosity, what alterations do you make?

Sounds like Peter is confusing City of Mist with Mistborn.

Hot take: Cypher System is a better game engine than 5e.

It came from a Neil Gaiman Tumblr post. https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/43087620460/i-was-reading-a-book-about-interjections-oddly

To which news are you referring, and how does it demonstrate that I am "obviously" wrong? I was quoting you (hence the quotation marks), so it's whatever you consider to be sanitized.

Call me crazy, but it seems to me that a con game in which a GM is running for a group of people s/he has never met before is the perfect place for "safe games" in a "sanitized environment."

I personally wouldn't call The Inbetweeners mature.