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Oh sure, I understand! I just saw what seemed to be people getting hackles up about a term and just not really meaning the same thing. Earlier someone said “backgrounds in 5E could let you build up NPCs and plot hooks like the DH rogue,” but that’s really not the same play experience as a player...

I’ll let you know in a few months if my players get that far. Definitely didn’t plan on just kicking off a new system at level 8 or whatever haha

That’s actually a really neat, horizontal thinking use of the spell. I love when players bust that kind of application out.

That was one of the questions on the survey and I had to sit and think for a long time on how to answer it. Mechanically, nothing got in the way for us. On the contrary, the mechanics gave us exactly what we wanted. I ended up putting down that in their tier 0 setting of the Sablewood, it...

Classic case of people using a similar word to mean different things. You can play D&D in such a way to focus on narrative, but it’s not going to have something like the Syndicate ability in Daggerheart where the rogue can, in play, invent an NPC and story hook for the GM to implement. That’s...

Played the playtest adventure today with a party of three and myself as the GM. We had an absolute blast! The building of character connections and questions was a great way to start the session, especially because it was my first time meeting one of the players. We had no issues with Fear...

I'm between a 4 and a 5 when trying to visualize most things, but having just say down to try imagining things with other senses, I definitely get a much stronger reaction when trying to imagine food taste and texture. I can easily just think "heavily spiced pumpkin pie" and bam, flavor, crumbly...

I don't think Critical Role would ever come out and say it like Matt Colville has in regards to MCDM's upcoming game, but I think it's really important to be able to see that kind of gap in expectations and just say "this game isn't for you" without it coming across as some kind of attack. I...

"Hey guys, Joe sprained his ankle 3 years ago. I swear if you try to draft him into our league baseball team I'm gonna snap." In a game that has probably 30 minutes to an hour at LEAST during the beginning of a campaign or even one-shot where you spend time building connections between...

On first read through, I definitely also had the thought that the GM will have to be pretty proactive with using Fear, even outside of combat. In combat, were you dumping fear to create action tokens and get all your baddies moving? I'm looking forward to giving this a go here either this...

Tabletop, video games, miniature war games, card games, it doesn’t matter what you do, people are going to get twisted up about it.

I am not personally worried about a lack of initiative, mostly because actually having played Ironsworn and Blades in the Dark with people has shown me it isn’t a problem. But if it does become one, I’ll add one rule: when you place your action token, before you take your turn, tell another...

Having given the PDF a more thorough read and made 10 or so characters in Demiplane, now, I think this is something I’m going to need to try. It hits so much of what I was trying to make myself, but a hell of a lot better. The one shot CR ran is a fun listen, too. The team attack moments in...

To be clear, I think the cards are really neat! Just for those who don't like that presentation, like you say, I don't see them as essential at all.

I could be wildly mistaken based on a very cursory look through, but all of the cards feel like they took features that would just be written onto your typical character sheet and put them onto a card. I don't see why you couldn't write them down as usual with a little tick-mark to denote when...

Even when characters gave armor, they’re taking damage most of the time. That’s why I brought it up as a way I’ve seen “wasted turns” be solved at my table. :)

Character A wants to hit a troll. They’re holding a one-handed melee weapon and a torch. Their one handed melee weapon gives them a d8. The torch, an improvised weapon, gives them a d4. But trolls being weak to fire, they add a d12 to their pool of dice. They roll their pool and come up with...

There are definitely things that I think improve the play experience that RPGs outside of DnD do/have done. On point 9: Dead Turns... The current game I'm in is in a system I cobbled together from Blades in the Dark, Into the Odd, and a smattering of other ideas I grabbed from other games like...

/j The only one keeping knives out of James Introcaso's and John Harper's hands is Hasbro! They go, it's gonna get bloody fast!

Absolutely gorgeous.