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Games I have tried other than my standard d20/shadowrun/earthdawn: The Coyote & Crow system encourages multiple approaches overcome challenges which I like but it felt like a table-top version of a "quick time event" from a video game in the pre-made adventure. I need to revisit it to see if...

I wouldn't put Adobe or MS in the good books. MS is a huge funder of OpenAI behind the scenes and has access to GPT tech so they are benefiting from OpenAI larcenous training approach in some fashion. No telling what shenanigans they have around Dall-E. Adobe didn't tell its Adobe Stock...

Earthdawn sort of does that. It's literally every AD&D trope manifested in game, with a somewhat rational reason why, down to the number of monster-filled dungeons. PCs are Adepts, which have Circles of advancement (levels). All special abilities are Talents and one of the Talents is...

It's not the quality. It's that it's trained on other artists work who didn't consent and aren't getting paid. What if in six months a digital artist decides to make their own monster & npc art but have ChatGPT mkUltra6 generate a TTRPG that is a mix of Japan and medieval Europe with an...

One other aspect is bias. Everything has bias because no random number generator is perfect. Most dice are imperfect and do not have a perfect distribution curve after a million rolls, but they are usually close enough. But some dice are really badly weighted or have some kind of damage or...

I was interested until I saw the art was by Midjourney AI. Use public domain art from the 1600s and add a stretch goal of "hire an artist"

I didn't like it because it's at odds with "roll high" method of combat.

I was part of the tech bubble in the 90s (yep, I'm that old). Pay attention to what companies say and do, that's them telling you who they are and how they behave. Did they say one thing on Monday and do something else on Tuesday? Do you hear them saying different things to different audiences...

Yep, that's its own thing now: escape rooms. There's a whole industry built around people who like that. They spend the effort to make a set of clues that are actually correct and act as clues. As someone who gamed in the trap-heavy 80s & 90s and then spent years in college and industry to...

I agree in principal where the puzzle trap is intended solely as a puzzle trap. But there are plenty of real-world puzzle traps. A nuclear reactor going critical is a puzzle trap, where you better do things in the right order or you all die. Or maybe you can do it the almost right order if...

I have rewritten some races' to have a shared backstory. The innate hatred between elves and orcs is that they were created from humans by the Noble Fey. This is why they can interbreed with humans. They are both compelled to obey Noble Fey of the appropriate factions. Elves were the pretty...

1. Bring back the 3e concept of Ex/Su/Sp. It actually makes a lot of their 5.5e monster designs feasible (like a Vecna with no spells!). Spell-like (Sp) powers can be counterspelled/dispelled, MageSlayer is triggered, paladin "Aura of Warding" applies, etc. Supernatural (Su) are affected by...

I will say I prefer the 5e caster progression. It's still not quite right against fighters but it is waaaaaayyyyyy more balanced than 3e wizards having 4 slots of all levels at 20th. Sorcerers having 6/level and knowing 34 leveled spells is just madness. And I say this as someone playing a 5e...

I ran 3e from 1st-25th level with all the brown splatbooks with PsyHb, ELH, and ToB at the end. I found it did well at all levels, but I cut my teeth in the 90s running 2e in a campaign of 9-13 players from 3rd-19th level so keeping track of sheer volumes of modifiers & stats was a...

My group doesn't upgrade mid-campaign unless the base system has flaws. The 3e campaign ran from the summer 3e came out to the summer 4e came out. We'll see what happens with the 5e game. There's a non-zero chance we run a different game system next campaign, which might carry us until 6e...

Had a thought on this, and realized the more appropriate use of teleport circles is the opposite of what we think, meaning assuming the circles should be at the capitals. But this is a security nightmare and requires powerful casters in the borderlands to 'port to the city. Instead put the...

I played red box in middle school, but kids in the neighborhood weren't into it. In high school I played ad&d 1e. I loved it, but I loved it for what it had the potential to be rather than what it was at the time. Every table had a different set of rules they actually played. It was less a...

Oddly, this past weekend my group was discussing a GM several of us had back in the 90s where I would say their games never had a haven. Ever. The only way you slept well was if you were new to his campaigns. One other player described his campaigns, regardless of game system, as "It wasn't...

On meld into stone, I see it more like the earthglide of xorn & elementals more than frozen in Carbonite. RAW says "You are aware of time passing, and may cast spells upon yourself." There's no restriction there so you can do verbal, somatic & material components. Somatic m3ans you can move...

I have only read LU, not played so I did some googling. The A5e blog says "A haven is a place where you can rest, get a meal, a full night’s sleep, be protected from the elements, and are at little risk of attack. An inn is a haven; a campsite is not (although you can still take a long rest at...