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That depends on if you're a health-is-meat or health-is-moxie person. Meat should be pretty easy to track. Not so with moxie. You might swap "annoying" for "immersive" if it's learning to get a feel for how much health/mana you have without looking at it. I still check my levels after a...

Can you just turn off the compass? I play Skyrim with no HUD.

Yup. If the mountain is flat, what are we really climbing? The Rainbow Six Siege system is fun: leave during a game and you get banned for 24 hours. Fortunately, there's a "quick game" mode that avoids this penalty. Have you tried changing the game's difficulty level? Watch some Angry Video...

That's admirable, and what I'd use if I ran a home D&D game. By the way, I know D&D can run steampunk. I mean, isn't that basically what Eberron is?

Love the promo art! But, can D&D handle steampunk?

Huh. Using a mixed outcome to tell mixed outcome proponents they're wrong? That's a logic puzzle. I'm pretty happy with my "ask the player what happened" system for making binary rolls more interesting.

I do: "PC, I'm going to roll. If the result looks like death, you take all the damage."

The 20 on a six-sider is a nice touch (nicer than the 10, even).

Still editing, but I think the damage rules are in their final form: Pretty streamlined, if I do say so myself.

Should a game engine be telling you how close you are to killing a baby were-seal? So step 1 is get player consent. Step 2: grab yourself a free copy of Modos 2, and prepare to dive into the Extended Conflict module (don't worry, it's only at a rules-count of 30-40). Step 3: try to guess your...

Too high-risk for me. Yes, you can put the players in different rooms or write secret notes, and maintain player surprise/stress by doing so, but the effort and/or slowdown could derail some already tenuous player-attention. I'd rather let the players choose to suppress or pass on their...

Truth. OP is a GM-conundrum to me, not a system issue. How does the GM divvy up the spotlight? What makes everyone-in-a-single-combat run smoother than splitting the party is that the GM has a single situation to describe. If you split the party, you can potentially have more than one...

In fairness, that's a somewhat entertaining screenshot. Agreed, but man, that beard! Can't imagine why. 🤓

Get gud.

Huh. That's probably great if you're not using a hex grid and your miniatures' bases happen to match the intervals between Mountain Dew-holes.

I just love how meta these are. Backstory's part of the rules, but isn't. It's a role-playing aid, but not everyone's a role-player. But, they're called role-playing games, right? Or maybe that does stand for rocket-propelled grenade. Maybe TTRPG stands for tactics then role-playing game...

No love for theater-of-the-mind, huh? I can see your beads rolling into the many air-holes that these tiles have. I'm guessing those are so Mountain Dew can dry out after it's spilled without having to slow the game down by lifting and cleaning. I thought they might also be magnets, but not...

Is changing games an option? It's probably not an option. Which is too bad because . . . Final Fantasy RPG 4th ed. encourages fantastic coolness, even if combat focuses on damage, elements, and status conditions. You could probably use one or two initiative dice to get to that brazier and...