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Welcome, stranger! "Even Tolkien?" Anyway, I'm with you on the green-skins being comical. Congrats. Your ilk are here as well 🤓 Amen. Fare thee well.

This is brilliant. Cocaine instead of adrenaline. This, not so much. The frontline is a great place to lose the smartest Kafers. How about the frontline commanders, instead? . . . but this isn't far from human truth. Hence the brilliance. If Kafers somehow survive the first portion of the...

What's the question here? How do you say a group is warlike without making it a genetic thing? Are you using "species" the D&D way or the normal human way? The old-fashioned "warlike orcs" never made much sense to me anyway. The group that lives by constant fighting gets overrun by the...

I don't know why this sent my brain spinning; I'm sure I've heard it before. Leader is a great name for a fantasy archetype. Communication, buffs (like motivation), mobility - great features for a "leader" that not all of the other types would have. I guess popular fiction just makes the...

Always? I know at least one game that allows static results on dice. When that happens, the combat focus moves squarely from luck to tactics Sure, that might not work for you. But there's an entire video game genre (Souls-like) that expects PCs to live to fight another day. So there are...

I'd buy that for a dollar! And I'm suddenly seeing my attraction to my animal-head helmet!

Metaphysical. Take it from another vanity project that spawned well before the announcement of "not 6e." (Hmm. "Not sexy?")

Skyrim Official Game Guide by Prima Games, and of course, donjon.bin.sh

I'd go with the Owlbear. It has this in the "permissions" documentation: For each layer you can control whether your players can create, update or delete those items. For example if you remove the create option from the maps section. (sic) Your players won't be able to add new maps to the...

Hear, hear! So, ability scores do what, roll-under checks? I'd be surprised if D&D had any "mechanics" before 3rd edition. So, it's Alt-Shadowdark?

Well, that makes it easier for WotC to sell D&D Beyond and whatever their Next Great VTT will be. Don't forget character conditions, reactions used, darkvision, spell slots used, 9 tracking sheets, and knowing how character classes work (because a lot of players don't). Cypher system puts...

Game masters are players of RPGs*, yet their experiences are often significantly different from that of player-characters. The traditional GM supplies the setting and outcomes, while the PCs provide the (hopefully) best intentions of the main characters. Some game designers have found that no...

I haven't played enough Savage Worlds to know what it could do for Golarion, but there's a significant reason that Star Wars felt like the SRD/3RD. One could pull out or modify a handful of SRD rules, and there would still be hundreds of D&D-like rules still at play. The Rules Compendium for...

1 day, 10 hours.

Generic systems? Yes. "Can the GM do that" is a better question. I'd call that the thing with GURPS - not all generic systems. If a generic system shows up with few rules, that leaves room for the GM to add or plug in more if needed and to take the fundamental feel in a different direction...

Better yet: "hmm, your account says 'insufficient funds.' You might want to call the Federated Bureau of Immigration and Identity Affairs. I.e. go on a quest to find whoever stole your ID." I've been too lazy to name most of my weaponsmiths and design their maker's marks. So far . . .

The rest of the genre, as in, the books that have conclusions? That's actually very gamey of him - his series fizzled out like a lot of campaigns do! That doesn't have to be the case. I'd much rather be playing in a story than something that's very obviously a game when the GM says, "um...

I'm sure that it's a great system, given how much work you've put into it! You'll want to streamline that Basics page for the new people. It's hard to understand because it makes a lot of references to topics not covered on the basics page. Also, if Life is the Adventure, is Adventuring a...

Capitaland. It has a Mars colony and electric jetpacks. The PCs get to play billionaires, which is nice, because everyone else's rights are limited to working for minimum wage and then signing over partial ownership of all purchases to the billionaire class (which, yes, is an actual character...

I'm re-reading a Song of Ice and Fire. Not seeing this low rate of protagonist injury. Aragon gets his feelings hurt. Welcome to the "D&D isn't actually the greatest" club!