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I love Fate; I think Fate is great for general stories and ones of indefinite length. In games that you wanna run for a long time without players increasing in power, it’s very hard to do in d20 but trivial in fate. Lateral change is easy. The free codexes, the boatloads of original...

On Air sounds fun!

Phew!

My spirit of 77 games were weekly, so I would be puttering around. I used Discord to share footage of 1970s commercials, to get people in the mood. Players really liked this. My weekly Discord Sunday game starts officially at 2, with some players consistently early, and one or two almost always...

Good luck, Framingham rules.

Get nutty with it!

I've only done L5R one-shots. 18 months is enough for a true epic.

They cost $169 a box, so it feels like a hard flip.

I just can’t play slow combat systems anymore. Saps my focus. I run weekly games* with whoever shows up, so we have a few recurring players but almost always someone new or who hasn’t played in a while. 4 hours a week with two breaks, ~three set pieces. Adventure of the Week is a great format...

Good news, this is the free starting adventure for spirit of 77! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/SpiritOfSeventySeven

All of your initial criteria might be true, but none of them define a main character. The main character of a story is often the one with the most screen time. But they are defined by the fact that they change in reaction to the world. (Or if they don’t, they are tragic protagonists, like Don...

RE The original topic: In my experience, the best way to make sure a player is unavail is to prep an adventure around them. I’ve been running ensemble, drop in drop out Pulp in Fate for months and months now. The expectation is amazing circumstances and action setpieces. I run every other...

You run 11 games? How? Like, PBP, live, a mix? Annually, monthly, weekly?

Wonder if I playtested this...