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Total red shirt.

That's correct. The one PC that did die was a player who just showed up for one session as a guest-shot and had no problems being permanently killed. I think the feeling is just the "we were completely outclassed in every way that this was impossible." They didn't land a hit on the villain. If...

Yes. My groups regularly do this and then complain that they can't heal. Or they can't affect large groups of enemies because they don't have AoE spells. But no one wants to deviate from their character concepts so everyone has a bad time and the campaign collapses after a month or two. I'm...

Details in spoiler tags. So I think it's salvageable. It's just not the ending the players wanted. And they don't have much hope.

Dragonbane. And yeah it was fun even though we had a rough time at first and an anticlimactic end.

Well, the campaign ended with a TPK in the BBEG fight - well, the technically survived but had such a hopeless, campaign-shattering loss that I don't know if it's salvageable. So we're pausing Dragonbane for the moment. Don't know what's next. We're gonna play a card game next week and chat...

Takes me back to my pops singing to me when I was a kid. :)

Clearly the superior version. Unfortunately, my group won't impersonate Thin Lizzy.

Why are rapiers bad for adventurers? Because every time one of my players draws one they sing "I then produced my rapier," followed by a loud "Heh heh!"

Congratulations to Kobold Press - this is the most I've seen ToV discussed on these boards in months.

But imagine being able to contribute to combat AND outside of combat. Imagine having a character able to hit and do damage that isn't negated by Damage Reduction (which is the problem I kept having in Numenera). So there are games where someone has a blaster rifle and a good percentage chance...

Yeah. I'll give you that my thaumaturge was experimental. (Tangent: I'm really coming to the side that Paizo shouldn't create classes. IME, all their stuff like gunslingers, alchemists, kinecticists, etc., prove to be worse versions of the core classes.) Other than that, I think it's just a...

One of my players wanted Darkwing Duck. We did random character creation, just so they could learn the system before they made their own characters. Also, I figured that the high lethality of the system wouldn't be so bad with random characters. The guy who wanted the duck ended up rolling it...

Thanks for the clarification @Morrus and @W'rkncacnter. That makes much more sense.

Sure it is...

Something about the design seems ... off? The AC is so low and the HP so low that they seem to pose little challenge. Like, a 3rd level character can probably one-shot this Challenge 15 example critter. And then you're still tracking HP on a "horde" of them if you're going to run multiples to...

Yeah! It's super low prep, combats are fast, rolling monster actions at random removes the pressure I feel for balance and great tactics, the players are engaged in roleplaying. It was an adjustment going from their expectations in D&D, but we got there. It may not be a campaign for a "long...

I'm currently running Dragonbane and enjoying it. I already have Level Up - which I haven't gotten to try yet. (I'd like to at least try that before buying into another 5E revision.) I don't begrudge a corporation doing "corporation-stuff" - but I'd rather support smaller companies. (It's the...

Specifically, the rules state that tracking an army is DC 10. Tracking an army through mud is DC 5. Still requires that trained action, though.

True. Perhaps I'm getting bored because I'm in boring games? Maybe the best way to be a "better player" is to tell the GM(s) what I want so I can be more active in the games? For example, if I'm going to be in a Pulp Cthulhu game, I should be a ham-fisted action hero - or at least play into...