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I prefer the UA playtest where the backgrounds were examples but players were free to create their own. Yes, I know this can be easily done at tables that prefer it. WotC should be encouraging player creativity, however. The current backgrounds are all mundane and will mostly be chosen for...

I did that too. Then thought, this isn't making sense!,

We manage. Everyone keeps notes(some better than others). If there's a contradiction, we don't sweat it too much, since it probably wasn't remembered in the first place. The campaign is more zeroed in on party. I think of it as Tolkien vs. Peter S. Beagle world building Both are cool and work...

I find it's less work. You build as you go and it's not all on the GM's shoulders. Maybe start with small village, some adventure sites nearby, add more locations when the party travels. Add a big city, nearby countries, maybe ocean travel, etc. Follow the players' interests and encourage player...

Yep. I start with a small area, some interesting hooks, players continue to add things as well, and the world unfolds. I used campaign settings in the past but starting with minimal prep, and no real setting besides some very bare bones did not actually feel any less real. We are just as...

And I was playing the 1st addition Warhammer RPG, not that sissy D&D game. 😂

I was a girl playing rpgs, (now sadly an old lady, but still playing!) Never was it an excuse to find dates, like what a weird take. 😂

Shadowdark is very addictive. We keep going back to it.

I watched Kelsey's vampire video. Looks like it'll be a blast. I'll wait for her her to fill up the castle cause she's way more imaginative than me!

Holy people laying on hands to cure the sick is such a staple though. I know diseases do not come up often in the game but this seems an odd decision.

Professor DM's style of D&D is pretty far from WotC 5e, and he is very upfront about it, so not reading the DMG isn't that big a deal. He runs his own mashup of basic, 5e and his own additions.

I can readily accept the Bastion workers being under control of the PCs, or not, depending on the table. The system however, is not set up for any investment in them as people. It's all too random and abstract.

And to be fair, it came out when most movies were failing to gain traction at the theatres. It's done really well on streaming. I enjoyed the movie too. Great fun!

The hirelings are really just board game meeples with no stats. Players can give then personalities, quirks and desires, except they can easily leave on a bastion event roll, totally unrelated to any personality the players gave them. And yes, there might be some criminalal hirelings, if the...

Oh, I agree on this point. In groups I've run or been in, the player characters might decide to build a stronhold or refurbish a structure they cleaned out. In a game I was in, we cleaned out a haunted manor and then decided to move in. Needed repairs and we had a few non- hostile ghosts...

I head to the basement. Look at all my rpgs sitting on shelves and then explain, "I forgot about this one and it looks so good!"

The way the Bastion rules are set up, there isn't really any room for GM involvement anyway, so there's that. Attacks are just a random event roll, and no room for even player tactics, other than how their bastion is set up. The folks running the Bastion while player characters are off...

We've wlways had the patron get involved but in different ways, depending on which patron the warlock chooses. A fairy patron will show up the most but the requests will usually be more frivolous. The Great Old One will be the least common but the stangest.and potentially have the biggest...

I love that too. The UA Bastion system doesn't really support that much, however. Hopefully it's been reworked.

Bastions should be personal things with lots of flexibility. The UA bastions gave a choice of rooms which had very specific outcomes and requirements, including the number of meeples, and what exactly they were working on. It felt very abstract. The table for bastion events was really small...