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I think an intro adventure should show me how the game creator think the fundamental parts of the system are meant to be played

Cavill is a pretty descent actor and seems like a nice guy, not only because he's a gamer too. Sadly the last words tends to come from the money guys who are more interested in doing dirty with interns than rolling dice (fools, I say!). But if only Cavill get enough input, I think this can be...

Here in Sweden it's been an enigma at least since I was a teen in the 80ies how the US can vomit out incredibly violent media (combined with bonkers non-existent gun laws), but showing a nipple shakes the nation. All the ongoing book bans etc still basically seems to concern showing real and...

SW is my goto system and I only have good and fun experiences. But: I'm almost silly generous with Bennies, mostly because my players doesn't hoard them for combat but use them for fun/stupid/creative stuff. I usually home-brew campaigns in most systems. So when we started with the system I...

Well, any game is hard if there is dissonance between the GM and players.

Imho it depends on setting/used Companion books and what power/playstyle levers you use - SW is pretty nifty in that you can shift mechanics and power level of campaigns pretty radical. But generally yes, it plays the same even if the GM obviously have to step up the opposition. But it's not as...

You're right. Was going to write something "but" about barbarians and never-washed loincloths, but then again, I had an elder female modern equivalent in front of me at the supermarket queue yesterday. The mixed fragrance of catpiss and badly aged fecal matter definitely evoked inner visions of...

My table of players are into the roleplaying aspects of gaming, but their PCs relation to clothing tend to fall into one of three categories depending on character: 1 They don't give a f 2 They make efforts to dress inconspicuously 3 They are flamboyantly fashion-aware and spend lots of effort...

I love the narrative content of Moorcocks stuff, but I can't stand his writing style. There, I've said it.

Foundry VTT has been my dinner table for some years now. But one product that I really love and use is The Monster Overhaul book.

A simple yardstick is what the game tells you. In 5e you have the CR system that tells us when an encounter is supposed to be deadly. Which it is not, and make us draw conclusions about the games deadliness, ie, a normal PC won't die from a deadly encounter.. And then we have early games, or...

Seems to me that you agree with me, if you are talking 5e, since as I wrote, you as GM are making the game deadly. Or are you telling me that the 5e CR system, which is what should guide us to make a fair assessment of the system, is deadly as written?

Forum rules prevent me from replying. But yeah, evolution sure produced a cute kid.

It's a General D&D thread, and in older D&D one component is - at least how I understand it and GM it - than not all encounters are meant to be able to beat for the PCs, at the current level, without the artifact weapon etc etc. In those cases the GM explicitly create TPK encounters, ie...

I think the op question is phrased wrong. It's not about how often PCs SHOULD die. I think many of us GMs cheer on our party and don't want anyone to die. It's more about the possibility that PCs COULD die. I've played a lot of Savage Worlds over the last years, and even if it's not a super...

I give you that, it's a big part of why SW is my fave system. What I meant was rather that any system can be played with out combat - mosts trad systems are very focused on the combat party, so it depends a lot on GM fiat and improv to work no matter what system. But yeah, Bennies to keep...

I hate and despise Christmas, the most painful and hypocritical of holidays. That includes sanity-shattering Christmas music. Sorry.

Savage World is my goto system as a perma-GM, and we usually play very rp heavy campaigns with a low amount of combat and a focus on conspiracy, mystery and intrigue. And I play it the same I do any trad rpg: I let social skills influence social encounters, but in the end it's the players...

I didn't know PC death was possible in 5e after level 2.

I wonder why threads on this subject keep popping up, with the same actors presenting the same arguments and disagree about the same stuff, where no-one will be converted to a different opinion or position? It's almost as if 5e is so perfected that there's no need to debate about rules or...