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Provide meaningful choices for your players So many options end up being traps for players that do not look at the effectiveness of the choices available to them. If there are multiple options make sure that each of the options are attractive in some way that is broadly equal. This can avoid...

The lore can be changed to fit your world. It doesn't have to stay with the character.

Three pages in and I didn't see this One Cube to Rule them All

Apparently this isn't quite as popular as I thought it was Charley's Aunt

As we dance around the meaning of matters, I want to add another concept into the discussion. Intent of the system or design has an impact on how both the GM and the players approach their games. Some examples. First Edition Paranoia was a bit of a mess. Here was something that was to be...

ooh. That reminds me of the old All System Catalyst series All-System Catalyst Series The Citybooks are full of plot hooks

There are aliens in the book First Contract that hate Limited liability corporations. As good as any reason to go to war. Other reasons in no particular order 1. To Unite a single race (2nd Empire of Man - Pournelle and Niven CoDominium - Wikipedia) 2. To Unite all sentient beings (Star Wars...

Where the nuts come from?

Pick your favorite Noir film and insert the players in on it. List of film noir titles - Wikipedia Maltese Falcon - the players get the McGuffin by mistake and have 3 or more sides trying to negotiate for it. The Racket - The players are asked to guard someone who is testifying against an...

I don't know if this has been tried but if the hacker brought the whole party into cyberspace (everyone had a cyberspace version of their character) then the hacking part of the plan involves everyone.

Most games wouldn't see traditional religions have any power to help against the Lovecraft horrors. I could see some games allowing for priests that have learned the forbidden knowledge in order to contain threats. That would be within the realms of possibility but something I would require a...

Playing a lot of strategy games like Stellaris, Crusader Kings 3 and CIV (5&6) and a few mobile games. And a lot of virtual tabletop games (Acquire, Root, Here I Stand, and Pax Pamir and more) Enjoying my RPG games but I like a nice mix.

We've been playing GURPS Traveller (just after 3rd Interstellar War online) GURPS has its own character generation challenges we did it with a session 0, we all went off to make characters and then edited them a bit after feedback from the GM.

The way magic items work in most D&D games is that they work at the same level no matter how powerful the wielder is. The One Ring is powerful in the hands of a powerful being not as much when worn by a hobbit burglar The idea of magic items that scale isn't new, but if more of them worked like...

You Can Lead a Horse to Water Measured Step Foreign Coin Dream Surf Silver Star Heavy Metal Disguise Kit Adventure for low level heroes in a fantasy setting. Local merchant, Wulfwin Jordan, approaches the heroes to escort his prized racehorse, Silver Star, from Redhorn, their current...

I can work with that. 24 hour deadline 750 word count for round 1

I am available anytime. There are days like this Saturday when I'm running a virtual board game meeting but I can work around my schedule.

So much of this is context dependent. In a situation where the gaming group is a group of friends and the code is that no one can be excluded then the GM and the players need to compromise on their visions to find common ground. The example doesn't show this happening. I prefer to put a...

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Could you adapt it using In Nomine? I've never found a group that was the right mix to play in the setting but I like the idea.