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NFTs are as pure form of speculation as you can see; the value of them is tied only very lightly to any real-world effects; as far as I can see the only thing that might affect their value is the perception of the popularity of their creator. When you are buying one you are risking money in the...

That was my first experience of D&D, and actually it was one of the games with the MORE pressure to be competent. It had a very high death rate, and if you rolled up a bad character you were sort of expected to let them die and be replaced. I later found out that most groups would look at a...

Definitely. Above all, be excellent to one another.

If the campaign is about effective combat characters defeating dangerous foes, then building a combat-weak character is actively undermining the campaign ethos, and so is "the wrong way to have fun", because it hurts other people's fun. And, TBH, most traditional D&D style games are about...

Having written a technical book myself, I now have a deeper appreciation of how easy it is, when reading your own work, to miss seeing things that are unclear. It is really, really valuable to have a serious editor and/or copy-editor to evaluate your work and spot all those issues. One of the...

Differentiating yourself from other systems on the market. This requires a solid vision of how your game differs; it requires marketing to let people understand how it is different, and it requires game design skills to make sure it really is different. Your game must compete against the...

Hotels have always been an issue, but the crowding is definitely new. I also have been going since Milwaukee days and the last five years or so have seen substantial changes that have led to me being less interested in Gen Con nowadays. Specifically: Fewer Exciting Cool New Things Obviously not...

It's possibly because I like to have a pre-defined plot that I have thought through for investigative games -- my goal for that sort of game is for the players to have fun by solving the mystery. I know that another form of investigative game is more reactive, with the fun being the players...

There's a difference between open source for a new RPG, which is what the OP is asking about, and taking a dominating market position and open sourcing a relatively small part of your IP

Here is a set of games I would run with zero prep: Everyway DramaSystem / Hillfok My Life with Father Dogs in the Vineyard Some Fate genres Fiasco Numenéra And here are ones I would not: Any form of D&D, including AD&D, 13A, PF Any investigative game, including CoC and GUMSHOE Any superhero...

It's worse than that even. Whenever you say average, you are assuming something to average over. For roleplaying campaigns, you might assume that the average is over the campaigns (that would be the typical usage), but another reasonable option would be to average by time spent. The average...

I ran NBA for a long, very successful campaign. It was pretty rare for heat to reduce in that game (not sure if I ever did, actually), mostly because in NBA, players become more powerful over time, so that if they do nothing, they can easily overcome the heat they generated previously...

Nomination #1 Pendragon RPG Version 6: Pendragon Design Journal #2: Bringing the Light in Sixth Edition Nomination #2 Rivers of London: Chaosium Announces Rivers of London Roleplaying Game

Hmmm. I could dig out my books later and check, but the following link indicates it was a standard rule: https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/PHB_Ch9_Initiative I'll copy the relevant text in: Standard Initiative Procedure To determine the initiative order for a round of combat, roll 1d10 for each...

This is an interesting statement, because my group, which has played fantasy games using AD&D2, 3E, 3.5, 4E, PF2, PF2, 13A, Fate, and Savage Worlds fairly recently played an old-school style game where we used weapon-based initiative modifiers from AD&D1 and no skills. We use the following AD&D...

Actually, the cited reasons were pretty much correlation. Not that house rules were bad per se, but that the sort of games where the GM felt the need for house rules were, in their experience, more likely to be a bad experience.

Tons of reasons. here are a few: Humility: Just because I think it's a bad rule, doesn't mean it actually is. When I change a "bad" rule I am saying "I am a better game designer than this guy who has is lead designer for a major RPG system and has decades of experience". That's a pretty strong...

It's a question of control. If A is mounted on B, the assumption is that A controls the movement -- you control your mount. In 4E terms, the mount moves on the controllers turn and is subject to those rules. There are a lot of mount rules that then come into play. Carrying someone is different...

https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Carrying,_Lifting,_and_Dragging To carry something, you get full move if the total weight carried is less than 10x your strength. Monks are the best at this, typically able to carry 150 lbs of adventurers without issue. But if you have a pixie in your party, it’s...

my iPad decided to hate me for a few seconds; hopefully the edited post makes it clear now.