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New Patron: Flying Spaghetti Monster! (This is a DCC game, and my 11yo decided not only that he wanted his wizard to have a patron - no problem! - but that he wanted that patron to be the FSM, based on its portrayal in the mobile game Doom & Destiny)

Hurtling toward the Purple Planet!

Dungeon Crawl Classics is everything you ask but the multiclassing. While it's famous for being gonzo, it doesn't actually have a core setting and the rules are incredibly flexible.

I play DCC RPG almost exclusively these days. 5e/Next brought me back to D&D in 2012 after a multi-year hiatus, and I played it for years; I love many aspects of the system, the way the rules are written, and how the edition interperets the game's history. Eventually, though, I kind of felt it...

Currently I run three games regularly: every other week (or so) at my FLGS, every week at home for my wife and family, and every week on Roll20 for my 11yo and his friends. I also ran playtests at Gen Con in 2022 for a module I wrote, which gods willing should see the light of day this year.

I andswered "Other non-D&D" because these days I run 1-3 DCC RPG games every week. One is a biweekly one every other Wednesday at my FLGS, one is a weekly one on Sunday mornings for my 11yo and his friends over Roll20, and one is a weekly one on Sunday afternoons in my living room for my wife...

Everybody showed up to play! (yesterday was the first time that gorup has had a chance to play since before the holidays, and it was absolutely wonderful)

It's kind of funny; I don't think I ever experienced any kind of real abuse about it, and certainly not from my parents (my mother was the one who bought me ICE's MERP, the first RPG product I ever owned, as well as the original Dark Sun box set), but I definitely felt ashamed of the hobby when...

Out of curiosity, why run this one then? I've never in 30+ years of gaming had a group that did well in sandbox play, so it's hard for me to make stuff like X1 work. I feel your pain. You might be better off runing something like Paizo's old Savage Tide adventure path, which was written for 3.5...

I signed up for Roll20 years ago, back when it was maybe the only option and maybe one of only a few. I've never used anything else and I see no reason to.

I run a weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) game on Wednesdays at my FLGS, a weekly game on Sunday mornings for my 11yo and his friends on Roll20, and a weekly game on Sunday afternoons for my wife, stepkids, and their various SOs. It's a rare week when all 3 actually happen, but normally at least 1...

I don't think losing a turn is the WORST thing that can happen, but it is pretty terrible. One of the things I like about 5e, and have imported into my DCC game, is allowing characters to repeat a saving throw on each of their turns to try and throw off the effect. Some might argue that alloing...

You could always use Campaign Guide: Zakhara - Adventures in the Land of Fate. It includes a gazetteer section on the city of Huzuz, which is loosely based on Baghdad. The gazetteer breaks the city into districts, with maps and a table of random encounters for each one. It also includes an...

It was 30+ years ago; was 16 years old, in love with Dragonlance, and determined to run my own game because I thought I could run a game I'd like better than anyone else. My players were some of my best friends (I'm married to one of them today). With decades of experience under my belt now...

Not to nitpick, but I think some of the dates in this post are off by a bit.

One piece of advice I will give re: housing is that you should absolutely not trust garbage like AirB&B or Vrbo. A couple of years ago I wanted to book a house because a couple of friends were meeting me at Gen Con, with kids, and I wanted a place where we all could stay together. We had all...

Pool of Immortality: thirst quenched!

No option for "the artwork just grabbed me?" Because that's what really started me with Dungeon Crawl Classics. I picked up and flipped through the core rulebook at my FLGS and I was sold almost on the art alone. But really, it hewed so closely to the rules I was then developing myself that it...

In theory, I'm open. In practice, I find it hard to believe that another system is going to do for me what Dungeon Crawl Classics does, so I'm unlikely to switch.

I still love the theater experience, but it's rare that I actually go. I belong to a movie club that charges me like $11 a month and for that I get a movie ticket, so my wife and I go to these movies about once every 2 to 3 months. The club gives me like 20% r something off concessions, too, so...