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Start with something earth-natural, and make small or local changes from there. Yeah, the dark ages were rough. Medieval fantasy? Yeah, monocultures sound bad. Sci-fi? Why wouldn't there be monocultures? Global communication (TV), faster-than-sound travel, monotheism, and authoritarian...

This game could be fun. Provided they don't Cyberpunk it. Anyway, the CRPG might be months or years away, but you can play the discursive role-playing game now on an unmodified Modos RPG chassis, with Modos 2 lists. Here is how some of the trailer features are played in Modos RPG, in...

Just keep that mortal away from my daughter.

Zweihander RPG comes to mind. I think it has a lot of classes to choose from.

Standing around while everyone else acts, yay! A different set of rules that slow combat down just as much as 3rd ed! Yay! Super heroes in medieval attire! New books, woohoo! Monopolizing game store shelves, so new players equate D&D with role-playing! Huzzah!

From the video game speed runs I've seen, it's not about the race to the finish. It's about understanding every available asset and maximizing their use. It's about knowing everything about the game, and then trimming the fat until only protein remains. The shortest completion time shows...

That makes the adventure easier to run for the GM, sure. But you're talking about the difference between, to use a Song of Ice and Fire as an example, a white walker and a zombie, an aurochs and a bison, the Tears of Lys and poison, Winterfell and the king's castle, or the Faceless Men and an...

It's a testament to the quality of the One Ring rules that Free League can afford to publish two varieties of one book. Otherwise I can see players shrugging and giving up on the One Ring, "we might as well use the WotC rules. Everyone else is." Or, you have those who pass the test, and...

Why plan further than the next session? How about: that's what your villains would do? I mean, it's called Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons must be planned before they're built, or else they're just caves. And the dragon that doesn't plan is dominated or eaten by the dragon that does. Players...

I figured they'd side with Texas. If they didn't, mightn't that lead to a weakening of Mordor's ability to silence free-thinking orcs? And how long must we wait, @Snarf Zagyg , for you to write up the fourth pillar of D&D: Courtroom Combat Rules?

I also try to avoid games that do this. However, I suspect that there's a GM suggestion, somewhere in the SW manual, that helps to remedy the problem. I'm glad your remedy fits the bill. So, no-outcome hits are bad, but no-outcome misses are fine? Scary. That's like, "if you're going out to...

Oh, I get it. Bl-AI-ming. Nice touch.

I'm dying to know: does the Haxtec Four Panel Screen support the Futhark Ledges? After I realized what the ledges were (thanks, aco175), I thought, "but my GM screen can barely hold up against a sneeze."

It's not the blue-trenchcoat elf in the tavern that you need to worry about. It's this guy:

Wait . . . EN Publishing had guns on display? Hope you had a license for that, @Morrus !

Don't be surprised if your PCs tie the captain of the guard to the front of their wagon and tug on his hair whenever they need a spell cast.

TL;DW the GMG is chock-full of tools for GMs to use, and improvising seems to mean rolling on random-result tables.

What didn't you like about Hope/Fear (besides the Star Warsy connotation)? Do those bennies pile up, or do they get used as fast as they come in?

1) The Great d20 is not pleased. Although, the d12 is an older god (born 12/12/1212). 2) The Daggerheart Basics video makes the game look like more of an MMHRPG than TTRPG. (In Matt Mercer's Hand) 3) Thank the gods it's not another 5RD product. And the OP is missing a couple of articles.

Wait. Who said this dinosaur is incapable of using idioms? This changes everything. I say let him in the group.