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The questions of what makes a game popular and/or good for streaming seems to come up a lot on these boards, and is certainly relevant as some big streamers move away from dnd (e.g. Critical Role). I came across this blog post that had some interesting thoughts… note: I am not the author of...

There are a lot of things like that that are unexplained in the book. The mist I think is just part of the weather. It is a fantastic book and I would love to run it one day. It’s really more of a setting with details to be filled in by GM or players. The included system is much better than the...

I missed that and now I feel that my entire childhood was a sham. Or at least that one planescape campaign I ran when I was 13. Thanks

Except Sigil is a torus so it should be closed, like the inside of a donut. Unless they are changing that

Gave up on my new concept and went back to my original concept, ish. 🫠

I was a vegetarian for years, and when I started to eat meat I tried to cook using Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. While the book is comprehensive, from what I remember, he often gives sort of vague instructions, or at least difficult for me to parse; he might tell the reader to cook a...

fwiw It was a pointless broadside at Apocalypse World, not DW 🔥 :cool:

Certainly. My point was that writing is not the best medium to communicate how to cook. This may be analogous to games--we depend on written game products, but actually sitting down at table and playing with people with experience is actually the best way to learn. edit: that is, the gap...

Cooking is about technique and learning to use your senses, not following written instructions. That's why seeing a video of someone cook is helpful, because they can show you what to look for in a given recipe. Best is being next to someone cooking, who may not even tell you exact...

For the $6, you get 30-ish games, so I picked it up. I like FKR but honestly just looking at the rules it feels very similar to rules-lite "story" games, particularly in the John Harper vein (e.g. Lasers and Feelings, Lady Blackbird). So I don't know if those distinctions are useful; but it is...

Just have to post this here…

Making steady progress, from first to second draft on my not-megadungeon and not-dungeon23 project! The second draft mostly involves typing the things that were in my notebook. My aim is to make this available as an adventure at some point, so I'm writing for an audience outside myself. It's...

I've come to really appreciate the referee's tome. The class design in the player's tome is obviously very efficient and concise. By contrast the monsters look a lot more complex and fiddly. But if you compare to the original, the bullet point style does a great job at presenting even complex...

Totally agree. I think this is part of why it makes more sense to talk about "cultures of play" rather than going purely by edition math. Because you could work out the math for AD&D and figure out how deadly it was in terms how often a given AC would get hit and how many hits it would take to...

Getting it complete is a surprising amount of work. It’s so much more work than just prepping for a campaign.

Ahh, and now taxes levels, I like it

If you want to go in a different direction, I feel like Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh could be a good solo adventure?

I think it is ok if saves are used as perhaps originally intended, as like a last resort defense for something that would otherwise kill you. I believe Gygax had given the example of a knight in a story who survives a dragon's breath against all odds (@Snarf Zagyg I think relayed this example...

I had plenty of TPKs when I played Balder's Gate 2, is all I'm saying. :cautious: