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Cause people hate talking to machine and want to talk to living person. Even if you can't deviate from the script when it comes to problem solving, at least you know there is person on the other side. If other person is normal and you have some people skills, even if you can't solve problem, you...

Yes, you could have rules like that. But then combat becomes trivial thing. You know your character can't die unless you choose to. But without risk of PC death, you can be more gung ho and trigger happy cause you know, no matter what, even if you lose combat, you live to fight another day. For...

Oh boy. Rant incoming. I worked in retail and as customer support agent for largest ISP/telecom in my country. I've done 6 month tour in Afghanistan. If i had to pick one, send me to sandbox, at least i can shoot back. During HS and some University years, i worked in largest retail chain in...

I would go with Hunter:The Vigil. Or just plain old WoD core rulebook (2004 White Wolf edition). We played long, Supernatural inspired campaign using it and it was blast. If you want hunters to be more normal people stuck hunting monsters, core WoD and Tier 3 Hunters are way to go ( regular...

Unlike PCs in games, literary characters have special feature called- Plot Armor. It's hard to make series and sell sequel books if you kill of protagonists ( there are some exceptions, like ASOIF, but i would argue that there aren't any protagonists in it in classical sense). Also, in fiction...

First and foremost, it's hanging out in person with my friends. For those 3-4 hours, we unwind and act as kids again, playing the game, spewing cheesy one liners and bad puns. It recharges batteries. Also, it's therapeutic on some level to get away from being responsible grown adult and just...

I found out that somewhere along, i stopped caring about what goes on in ttrpg industry and hobby in broader sense, and talking to fellow gamers i know irl, most of them are same way. People have their regular groups, they have their favorite games, they play them, they enjoy them and that's...

If he want's to buy it, and fork over ridiculous amounts of money, go Elon go. His Tesla shenanigans payed me enoguh for complete house renovation. Since i dropped few grand on Hasbro stock, if i get to sell them at 2x or 3x, i'll make toast to Elon with bottle of Pappy. As I said numerous...

As a youngster in this thread ( i'm only 37) but i see some of the problems slowly creeping in. Also, i'm youngest in my regular group, rest of the guys are in their early to mid 40s. We joke around that if you combine 5 of us, you can't put together one fully healthy person. When i did my...

Most of my collection is in PDF on external ssd drive. These days, i hardly buy anything physical when it comes to ttrpgs. I do own some books, but they sit on the bookshelf and aren't used in games. It's faster to pull out phone and google rule than to find one in 300+ book. On the other...

WoD, CoC, 10 candles, for more survival horror- All flesh must be eaten. D&D in Ravenloft can be good if done right. From personal experience, how good horror is relies heavily on GMs skill.

From player perspective, in 5e, after levels 3-4, i stop counting gold pieces, let alone petty change ( silver and copper). Electrum is fun for games set in classical era (Greece/Rome). In standard fantasy, nah. Personally, can't remember any of us used silver coins for anything in game. In...

@innerdude Have you asked said player what it is in ttrpgs that he finds fun? For some people, getting their characters as powerful as they can is what makes it fun for them to play.

In a game like WoD, you spend character points or xp on everything. So if you invest points in magic, you don't have points for skills, stats, merits etc. So you end up with mage that is powerful magic wise, but can't drive car, fire a gun, doesn't have contacts or wealth etc. You need to...

While testing up to lv 17 has it's merits, then you may as well test it to full 20. But personally, i find it usually waste of time to even develop anything above level 10, cause most campaigns end in that 8-10 lv range. If OP regularly runs campaigns in teen levels, then it makes sense...

Test it at levels you mostly play. No point in testing for full 20 if you never play past level 10.

Technicality (but, if they have spaceships in their port, you could say it's also - spaceport). Spaceships land outside city and sail in like regular ships. But point stands. They trade with fricking space. They have solid magitech, it just isn't so front and center like in Eberron, but it does...

Setting with literal magic space ships is most definitely more advanced than early modern. So, 2 million people isn't that hard to believe. While FR doesn't have Eberron's steampunk magitech vibe, it does have that level of magitech available. Again, magic space ships. And Waterdeep has - spaceport.

Layoffs suck, but they are part of life if you work in corporate sector. On my second job, they hired me in February and fired me in November of same year ( they cut off 20 people, 10% of total workers in that branch office, mostly us newbies). Come June next year, same company is hiring again...

World of Darkness is also full of magic and supernatural creatures. And still, not one of them wants to be at the receiving end of .50 BMG. To paraphrase Kincaid from Dresden files, when asked how would he take out wizard. High powered sniper rifle from mile away. That's why regular joe hunter...