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I absolutely love when the PCs actually have agency and can change the world. To me that's the beating heart of RPGs. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Or utterly inexperienced players. It’s far easier to run things, I’ve found, as improv with dice rather than strictly by the book with new players. Experienced players would likely complain more about the experiment rather than help make things go smoother. Or rules light games. Not as much to...

I imagine that’s where games like Torg came from.

Yeah, there would be some sticking points where everyone participates but the systems are wildly different, like initiative or resting. The simplest solutions would be to either standardize those or ignore them. Standardize in the sense of impose one system on everyone, say B/X 1d6 sided-based...

Wild. My last thoughts on the idea were that you'd need to stick with the same or similar genre to avoid tonal whiplash. D&D is D&D after all. But old-school fantasy crossed with superheroes seems like it would be crazy to deal with. System-wise it wouldn't be that hard generally. Most systems...

Here’s a recent video from Sly Flourish about playing multiple 5E variants at the same table. The video reminded me of a thought experiment I was working on a few years back based on the story of Dave Arneson running players through a D&D game with players having characters from different...

That's a good channel. I like the original a bit better. The ladies pull no punches.

Yeah. Good idea.

Yeah, that’s a good idea. You could always buy some Masa Harina and make them yourself. It’s so worth the effort. Make sure your knife is sharp. Cut the stem-core out of the top with the point of the blade. Use that hole to half or quarter the tomato. Then lay the pieces skin-side down to cut...

If the content keeps moving and evolving, there’s no limit if I’m interested. If the participants keep repeating the same dumb argument loop, you couldn’t pay me enough to keep watching a thread. It usually only takes about 6-8 pages before the same old battle lines are drawn and the same...

From the description I was given it will be as mentioned in all the memes and videos. It's not an ironic white-people taco night. Cheddar cheese, olives, and store bought hard-shell tacos. I get the feeling if I brought something as basic as queso fresco I'd get funny looks. That's a good...

I’ve been invited to a white-people tacos event and I am conflicted. Do I make some actual Mexican taco fillings and bring them? Do I make corn tortillas to bring or buy some from a tortillería? If you don’t know what I mean, here’s an explainer.

Cool. Welcome back to the hobby. That's easy. Enforce the logical consequences of his character's actions in the fiction of the game. He's trying to face-tank monsters as a rogue? His character would get attacked and probably die in short order. So be it. Let him die. His next character will...

Honestly, at this point...nothing. There are no systems that I have to have provided. I have so many systems floating around in my head that I'm much happier improvising a system or mixing-and-matching systems on the fly than worrying about what some book says. You can run from some basic...

The show must go on. If one player can’t make it, play the scheduled game anyway. If the referee or multiple players can’t play, try something simple like Cards Against Humanity, poker, dominoes, or a backup one-shot RPG. Something super-light like Honey Heist or Lasers & Feelings.

A live-action series starring Nick Cage as Spider-Man Noir. As someone who loves superheroes, Spider-Man, pulp adventures, and noir...this is all the things. Really looking forward to this. https://cosmicbook.news/nicolas-cage-spider-man-noir-first-look Teaser trailer...

With enough exposure to finding gems and selling them they'd likely be able to tell the different between types of stones (onyx vs opal, etc), so that's a gimme. Unless the PC wants to spend 20-30 minutes examining each gem with the proper tools they won't know the exact value. If they're...

"I didn't come here for a discussion. I came here for an argument. And by the gods I'm going to have an argument if it kills you." Yes, we know. We all know.

By that logic it’s Brownsteins all the way down and nothing else matters.

Yes. It’s OSR.