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This reminds me of when and how John Wick created Orkworld. He was in the weekly D&D game at AEG that John Zinzer ran. Wick wanted to be an ork (not orc) bard. Zinzer said, "John, you can't. Orcs are just speed-bumps to the plot." So they haggled. If Wick gave him reasons orks could be PCs...

Why do the rules need to fit the setting? Because ONLY the GM will ever have the full, complete picture of the whys behind things. There is no amount of Session Zero you can spend that will answer every social more, every social norm. The GM needs to define it or players won't know that's...

Personally, I love this. I would absolutely let a player do this. As the GM, it's part of my job to adjust encounters and keep things equally fair but interesting. There's nothing wrong with reskinning effects, or monsters, and coming up with in-world lore of why. I'm reminded of Keith Baker...

I believe it was either John Wick or Matt Colville who said that the game informs you of the designer's intended style of play by the behaviors it chooses to reward. With this Fire/Stun example, I'm not seeing an in-setting reason to choose one and not the other/both. Nothing was laid out...

Personally, I don't know that the GURPS comment specifically helps this discussion in regards to the designers not culling spells and effects from the system. GURPS is designed, as in the name, to be a generic roleplaying system. If systems are thought of as toolboxes - you have an engineering...

Agreed. I think the only reason to mention 'there are no dragons' is if the naval survey ship is supporting a Darwinian expedition to test someone's theory about a lost 'dragon's graveyard' and it benefits the Crown to humor the assertion.

I'm not sure, but I had thought the Illuminated Worlds series wasn't intended to be for longest-term play, that it was for shorter form arcs. From the State of the Role piece on Darrington: Further, the video announces two new RPG systems we’ll be releasing: Illuminated Worlds, optimized for...

I liked the 3d aspect - nothing more satisfying than watching the flying lizard people get shot with an arrow, fail a Concentration roll, and plummet and die. Same with yeeting someone off a platform and dying.

Henry Rollins talked about that. Everyone is someone's target group and you can judge how They feel about you by what's targetted at you. At some point, you stop getting the Columbia House 10 cassettes for $1 and start getting hearing test ads

I think my sentiment echos either John Wick or Matt Colville (can't remember who said it): When people say something is unbalanced, what they often are talking about is spotlight, and one character massively outshining everyone else

In my years, I've run into quite a bit of this. Things that have some good ideas, but they're buried under some novel 'to be different' mechanic. Say, an amazing world but it's saddled with a dice system that seems based not on odds, but on the fact the designer wanted to use a doubling cube...

Makes you wonder if he was actually just a thief that can play the lute

I'm glad to see any exposure for other games and play styles from D&D. I think having players people know playing weird characters in weird new systems probably helps too. (I did forget, somehow, about the weird scifi Nautilus Ark one-off they did... I may need to go back and rewatch that)

Agreed. But, it's still more than most APs. I guess when you have the audience numbers, you can afford to start branching out. To be honest, THIS is what I hoped for most from the OGL debacle - third-party publishers putting out products and trying to make money that doesn't involve 'the...

This is my thought as well, but you know what? When we all started out, odds are good we gamed 'wrong' -- but we had fun. Critical Role, I feel, has done a decent job of representing other, non-d20 games over the years, such as Deadlands/Savage Worlds. Monsterheart, the Honey Heists, etc...

Agreed. But my understanding with this situation is OP was a 'guest DM' covering for a session when the other DM was out. It's on the original DM, sadly, to fix this.

I'm curious what story can be told with the remaining cast. I'm thinking obviously pre-destruction of B5, pre-Sheridan's end when he goes to the Grey Havens (it's been awhile since I've watched)... but you have strong Psi Corps characters left, you have Lyta and Kosh, and you have station...

Not replacing. In addition to.

I know there's probably people reading this that really are repulsed by the set up in the original post, and feel this is 'bad player syndrome'. And I feel it a good time to reiterate some great wisdom I heard from Matt Colville before: There are no bad players. There are just players who...

I think for visibility ranges, there's also a context element to it. Unless you're out on some war patrol or hunting a group, there's a range where you can see people, and a range where you realize they're heading to your area and a range where you know you need to go full-alert. I guess it's...