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People come over to your house and decide to play hide and seek. Isn't one of the topics that comes up is, "where one can't hide?" Even though everyone knows that the rules are: you can hide anywhere ;) . This quandary comes up more frequently day-to-day than perhaps we feel it does. How did...

So much talk of The Hobbit movies, and little to no mentioning of Legolas's feats-beyond-feats (tm)... was the experience of witnessing them so horrible that communities communally agreed to never utter a word of them again? :ROFLMAO:

@Whizbang Dustyboots I read about the gumshoe system only recently, it seems like it'd be an excellent fit for this particular game. When I read the entry you provided to a not-interested-in-rpgs-usually friend, they thought it was cool! So there's draw for a game like this.

To which I'd offer, what person wouldn't? That scene was believable, and had more sentiment, esp. in light of how arranged marriage plots have been told (inevitably one-sided, with one voice suppressed). It's been some years since I read Dune, but the fact that Herbert has a Fremen "become...

This makes sense definitely! My thought with this was, what if the gnome was captured, imprisoned or simply in an isolated locale? Therefore, they lack access to tinker tools. Or they're in an environment i.e. on an escarpment or bluff where materially they're just lacking typical stuff and need...

These are each amazingly cool; some thoughts in passing to consider: For gnomes, some requirement for a narrative framing device-- the gnome player needs to describe (that is, roleplay) what materials they're able to gather, that goes towards the construction of the clockwork from the...

This is what we do when we go to where the board games are and ask, "would you like to play Chutes and Ladders [Snakes & Ladders]?" If the answer is "yes!" then you play. If the answer is "no," suggest a different game with a rule set that players will vibe with. If the answer is "well, I'm/we...

I'll be running this in time for Hallows Eve. Vaesen is very inspiring in general. And gives good reason to roll d6s! I wasn't as enthused with the offerings in Mythic Britain/Ireland, but in retrospect some of this feeling may have been to how well the core book was. :3 Prague is such a...

Meaning? :3

Re: craving system mastery or fairness. When faced with rolling a character's stats where the game's rules limited how much dice or rolls you could use, what I rolled shaped what kind of wizard etc. I would play. That is, in the process of creating a character, I never thought, oh, this is...

@payn This series of articles discusses these play styles, although framed through the lens of video fighting game genre, which admittedly does not have the same goals that ttrpgs do. Others may be familiar with it outside of ttrpg space, as it's rather seminal. The beginning/intermediate...

OP's question appears to be focused on the idea of individual class balance, comparing past versions of classes with more current ones, mainly in regards to particular mechanics. Echoing others' sentiment, I feel a game works well when it has class balance (not PvP class balance, but as others...

Everyone will differ to a great degree on this; there's a couple of posts above where players or table runner mention they find music distracting or just don't like it at all. Other alternatives I've heard of: some will lean less on "music," and more mood soundtracks, things like soundscapes or...

To be fair, as long as it is a single latrine, it would be the safest. Stinky, but safe.

They've all been informative in their own little ways.

I'm surprised Edinburgh Castle's 1 o'clock cannon that features in the docents' spiel missed the cut in this article. It's an awesome piece of inspo for anyone considering putting together a city, with a fortified castle next to a harbor. The cannon was routinely fired to announce the time in...

One thought: would the table mind being collaborative and narrate what happened during their journey through this mythic desert? That is, use whatever tables you have in mind for the bones; once the players can access their recollections, have them craft the story of what happened at the table.

I think everyone is aware of what hit points are, and that they are a bigger'ish abstraction conceptually. A lot of mechanics used in rpgs are based in abstraction. I'd advocate that rather than focus on particular abstractions, instead ask if the rpg generally: Meets your aesthetic vibes in...

The initial thought that came to mind was inside a unicorn's domain, provided said adventuring couple could come to an agreement with one; there aren't terribly many left though. After that, rural, but within the reach of a city that had a history of being vigilant.