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Another game in. Things are starting to take shape... I'm realizing that I've played a lot of TOR 1e but never played or GMed (Loremastered?) TOR 2e, and I'm confusing more 1e into it than I thought I would. Interesting. Another change I brought to combat were about the combat tasks. TOR's...

« Yo mama plays bards » is going to be my primary insult from this point on!

Witch King of Angmar, Darth Vader... Star Wars being closer to a fairy tale than true sci-fi helps with the transition.

Obviously, some things had to change. That was to be expected. Still, the essence of TOR is intact, at least I believe so... Focus was shifted from Cultures to Class Archetypes. Star Wars isn't very culture-oriented, or at least, I wouldn't know where to start. And Star Wars has like a gazilion...

[UPDATE 2024-09-02] Here's my master document I'm using for our games. This one is (almost) without images so it looks a bit dry, but my own version is fully illustrated (with a bunch of images I do not own, taken over Pinterest and whatnot). If you're reading this thread for the first time...

So…. The Milwaukee Polyhedral incident?

That would explain my « might be eaten by dragon » omen from my morning tea…

* inside the spire * !!!

While I understand that people have posting the best of the prompts, AI art is frighteningly good.

Fair and true, D&D settings (and the game in general) aren’t realistic and in some cases, un-relatable (e.g.: falls and lava). I still think this is attributable to a system that loosely calculates health without taking wounds into consideration, but doing so consistently with all situations...

« Because dragons » is an argument neither in favour nor against human characters being relatable to humans as we know them.

But that’s mostly an artifact of D&D being a loose simulator* for adventuring adults, not because human children in D&D are intentionally superhuman in nature. Unless the game or setting explicitly says otherwise, I expect human to be akin to what I can relate to as a human, and take mechanical...

My experience with slow natural healing is that it just puts more pressure on magical healing. This may or may not be seen as an advantage, depending on play style. In the two games that I’ve played (one as player and one as DM), slow natural healing exacerbated the need for spellcasters to...

5e PHB already does that to a certain extend pertaining monks and several barbarian subclasses. I don’t know if that would be enough to satisfy @Micah Sweet, but asking for a bit of in-game explanation as to why someone can jump over a tower or wreath its sword in fire is a reasonable request IMHO.

I have a 3e Forgotten Realms campaign setting book that got flooded (among others, but this one I kept). I saved it but it’s a solid inch thicker than what it used to be. It’s kind of cool, has that ancient book feel, but not practical whatsoever. Still, kudos to whichever printshop did the...

Not a RPG per se, but the “prehistoric animals” that inspired the bulette/owlbear/rust monster etc. I remember having them as a (young) kid, then donated them at the turn of teenagehood (along with a bunch of other toys I wish I kept). I wouldn’t have any use for them now other than display them...

Indeed, coming of age is an important aspect that I failed to identify. Good catch.

I’d love a plug-and-play alternate spell book. Like, throw away all the spells from PHB and replace them with those, which can then be specifically tailored for low(er) magic setting or one with a different, narrower magical flavour. Keep some of the same spell names so that this class can still...

I’m still a bit hazy on what is considered a narrative game. I thought they were more like Fate or Amber with malleable rules to fit the fiction on the spot, as opposed to games where game mechanics guide the narrative with results than can later be interpreted depending on fiction. But in the...

So if I get what you’re saying, the mechanics of Luke shooting at a squad of stormtroopers should be different from those of Luke facing Darth Vader? How do would you implement that? Traditional rpg would make Darth Vader a stronger enemy. Some would make Darth Vader a “boss” type villain, or a...