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You know your table better than I, but if you do this, I wouldn't recommend that it have too much of a mechanical advantage attached. I think some of the problem also becomes that the two characters don't have any special attachment to the other.

This reminded me of something I saw Brennan Lee Mulligan talk about with 'rails': the only rails he uses are what the players give him, especially in Session Zero. Using Bilbo as an example also, he said you need to realize there's a disconnect between what the character wants and what the...

Kevin Smith, as detective-warlock Sam Hain.

There is a sequel to this, if you haven't seen it.

I'm trying to look but remember - if it's older, and it's a one-shot, it could also be in Dungeon magazine.

According to Polygon, it's $621.93 TOTAL. D&D lawsuit: The new TSR declares bankruptcy, pausing court case

I think my mind is blown that they have $621M in revenue? Is this somehow because LaNasa has his money all mixed into NuTSR's pile?

Glad to see someone else familiar with Orkworld! I definitely see your points. And speaking of Play Dirty, I don't know if you had seen, but I thought it was interesting that he went back and did a Youtube series going back over his book and considering it from where he is these years later...

This reminds me of when and how John Wick created Orkworld. He was in the weekly D&D game at AEG that John Zinzer ran. Wick wanted to be an ork (not orc) bard. Zinzer said, "John, you can't. Orcs are just speed-bumps to the plot." So they haggled. If Wick gave him reasons orks could be PCs...

Why do the rules need to fit the setting? Because ONLY the GM will ever have the full, complete picture of the whys behind things. There is no amount of Session Zero you can spend that will answer every social more, every social norm. The GM needs to define it or players won't know that's...

Personally, I love this. I would absolutely let a player do this. As the GM, it's part of my job to adjust encounters and keep things equally fair but interesting. There's nothing wrong with reskinning effects, or monsters, and coming up with in-world lore of why. I'm reminded of Keith Baker...

I believe it was either John Wick or Matt Colville who said that the game informs you of the designer's intended style of play by the behaviors it chooses to reward. With this Fire/Stun example, I'm not seeing an in-setting reason to choose one and not the other/both. Nothing was laid out...

Personally, I don't know that the GURPS comment specifically helps this discussion in regards to the designers not culling spells and effects from the system. GURPS is designed, as in the name, to be a generic roleplaying system. If systems are thought of as toolboxes - you have an engineering...

Agreed. I think the only reason to mention 'there are no dragons' is if the naval survey ship is supporting a Darwinian expedition to test someone's theory about a lost 'dragon's graveyard' and it benefits the Crown to humor the assertion.

I'm not sure, but I had thought the Illuminated Worlds series wasn't intended to be for longest-term play, that it was for shorter form arcs. From the State of the Role piece on Darrington: Further, the video announces two new RPG systems we’ll be releasing: Illuminated Worlds, optimized for...

I liked the 3d aspect - nothing more satisfying than watching the flying lizard people get shot with an arrow, fail a Concentration roll, and plummet and die. Same with yeeting someone off a platform and dying.

Henry Rollins talked about that. Everyone is someone's target group and you can judge how They feel about you by what's targetted at you. At some point, you stop getting the Columbia House 10 cassettes for $1 and start getting hearing test ads

I think my sentiment echos either John Wick or Matt Colville (can't remember who said it): When people say something is unbalanced, what they often are talking about is spotlight, and one character massively outshining everyone else

In my years, I've run into quite a bit of this. Things that have some good ideas, but they're buried under some novel 'to be different' mechanic. Say, an amazing world but it's saddled with a dice system that seems based not on odds, but on the fact the designer wanted to use a doubling cube...

Makes you wonder if he was actually just a thief that can play the lute