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As mainly a referee I tend to look at that side of things first. So campaign frames, adversaries, countdowns, downtime, etc are all where I've been focusing my attention so far. I absolutely love the modular design so far. Just about everything is designed in a discrete silo that makes for...

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same already tired arguments about Daggerheart and more narrative-focused play. There are plenty of other threads to hate on games and play styles you don’t like. There are a few people on here who play Daggerheart and want to talk about it...

I think that'll go down in history as one of the single most tone-deaf ads ever. Yes, people absolutely 100% would download a car if they could. Are you kidding? Hell, give it a little more time and 3D printers just might make it possible.

It's not even limited to sandboxes. There's seemingly a fairly large minority of players who want RPGs to be life sims. Open a bagel shop and RP that. Run a trading consortium and RP that. Traveling merchants. Etc. A whole lot of people seemingly love the slice-of-life style of play. For the...

I think it's a good general distinction to make, but what's throwing me is this bit: That's absolutely not my experience either running or playing sandboxes. I run open-world sandboxes almost exclusively. I do drop in modules all over the place. But it's never with the intent of pushing the PCs...

Well, both wizards and bards still exist in Dark Sun so you’d still need them. It would likely be easier to make a psionic domain. Could do. The sorcerer sort of has the innate power and elemental theme down. I’m always more a fan of reskinning as much as possible. Thanks.

One thing I always do is look at how you could do something like Dark Sun in whatever fantasy game comes out. Surprisingly there's very little you'd need to homebrew to get Daggerheart to work. Most things are lore choices and renaming or reskinning things. The wide variety of ancestries...

One book for an 11-year-old wanting to GM? For me there's no question the best book is Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master by Sly Flourish, aka Mike Shea. The book takes a minimalist approach of only prepping what you need, understanding that you'll have to improvise so prepping to improvise...

Insert my obligatory rave review of Whizbang Dustyboots introducing me to The Stygian Library.

Actual history, not the Hollywood version.

Mike Underwood is one of the game's designers. His YouTube channel has a few really interesting videos about Daggerheart design. Here's one on campaign frames. He has another on environments.

The only thing I'd honestly want to know at this point is the timing. Were the contracts in place to do CS before he sat next to Jennell Jaquays and denounced Judge's Guild or after. Along with the obvious follow ups either way.

Finally started Playing at the World 2E Volume 1. It's pretty good so far. Definitely an easier read than 1E. I do like the extra resources and citations Peterson is including this go around. Not that 1E lacked citations or resources, only he's since found more and has reworked the book to...

Ah, pedantry at such a level that you haven't seen daylight in months and must subsist on your own fumes. The reason even geeks utterly despise other geeks. Please change. Or get therapy. This is why no one wants to talk to you. "Well, actually..." # Ah, the laziest possible design. Of...

Feels like a good time to remind you that the only Star Trek show currently airing is a prequel to the 1966 series TOS. What's in the past or future, what's done and what's not is really an incredibly mutable thing in fiction. Especially in a franchise with time travel that also botches and...

Yep. And holy hell would I feel better if Asimov's Laws were hardwired into these things. Hell, hardwire it into every piece of technology that's advanced enough to have code.

Yes, and?

It's really a bad analogy because the LLM lacks the life experience and free will of a person at a gaming table. The LLM doesn't have the option to say no, stand up, and refuse to play. It's a program. A tool. Further there's no cognition or emotions behind the LLM's so-called decisions. It...

Or just make enough money to bribe the government to rewrite the laws so it's not illegal. Weird how that works. It's almost like legality and morality are two separate things.

As much as I love the standard planet-of-the-week episodes of ship-based Star Trek, DS9 is far and away my favorite Star Trek because the setup gave us time to really live with the alien cultures presented instead of just getting a single 45-minute episode or the rare return episode a few...