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It'll encourage players to just pick and move on. This, in turn, will start getting players to pick a background solely based on what will give them the best stat and feat for their build, and then the actual story elements of the backgrounds will be forgotten. Some GMs might only allow the...

It's in the core book. There are also lots of tables for outdoor encounters. You'd have to create your own adventures, as adventures for Shadowdark lean heavily into dungeons, although there are interesting encounter areas in the hex maps in the Cursed Scroll zines.

Pulp Mode: No max luck tokens Start every session with1d4 luck tokens Use luck token to turn hit into critical hit Use luck to gain extra action Use luck to force GM to reroll Momentum Mode: Advantage on checks to repeat an action you just failed Damage dice explode There are also modes to...

As a trained navigator, a sailor could get a boost to Int. That would make sense. In terms of feats a sailor could readily have lucky, toughness or skilled. I could have a sailor with a touch of elven blood starting with the magic initiative feat. There's so many ways to create backgrounds...

Don't think that's the case here. 😂 Folks at MCDM seem pretty comfortable voicing their opinions with each other.

It's my mission as GM to stop the canned choices. It's a creative game and I encourage players to be as creative as possible. For example, I hate the traits being on tables you could roll on in the 2014 version. Too many players just pick from the tables, instead of creating their own...

We find creating our own to be more flavourful and story oriented. The WotC ones are all bland. Nothing wrong with ordinary backgrounds but we like to mix it up with "raised by goblins" or "transformed wizard familiar." We'd also prefer to pick an origin feat that matches the character, so maybe...

The fire, lightning, acid, repeatedly being stabbed and slashed... No, not even in my fairly light combat style.

Bestiaries are usually books I just have on hand for reference. I read the 13th Age one cover to cover.

I'm not being pushy here, and it may very well not be the game for you, but I wasn't too sure about 13th Age until I played it. Playing and running the game made it sing.

They should be credited in the physical books as well. Not enough room? Make room!

I appreciate the classes in 13th Age being specifically designed. I love the fact that averages of stats are used for defenses. You really don't want to dump any stat in 13th Age. And the one unique thing is brilliant. Also love the freeform use of backgrounds as skills. The way a background is...

We backed the latest C&C edition. Been curious about it for years.

We've been doing a lot of outdoor stuff with Shadowdark. Works great. There is also a pulp mode if you want more epic heroes.

I haven't watched much Critical Role. I did see their Candela Obscura episodes and the players seemed to get confused and make silly assumptions and engage in typical player behaviours, so no, not scripted. Other than better voice acting and focussing, not that different from our table. 😊

WotC does seem bent on removing a lot of hindrances or minor frustrations. Those delicious tricky decisions are vanishing as well. It's not a huge problem, but balancing risk vs. reward or sacrificing one thing in order to do another adds teeth to the game.

I really like Ars Magica, with memorized spells being safe and predictable and spells characters throw together on the fly being riskier to cast. I also like short spell descriptions that are open to interpretation like you find in Knave. Lots of opportunity to take a flavourful description...

I think so too. If I'm recalling correctly, rolling fell out of favour for a while, but came back because players got bored with the standard array and didn't care for the point buy system.

Mechanically the ranger is fine. I don't like the flavour because my personal fantasy of ranger is not the constant muttering of spells.

Does how fast you age and learn really matter when a few months of the adventuring life will send you hurtling up several levels? 😏