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Apparently the pawns were never a particularly good seller - the worldwide paper shortage and shipping crisis in addition to the reduction in in person play (and the fact people can just... print the pictures out) means that it just is not a good idea to produce them. They're also in no world...

I personally had a hard time learning the procedures of PBTA play by reading Apocalypse World - I feel like Flying Circus by Erika Chappell does a great job of teaching the GM how to run the game, restating a lot of the information in AW in cleaner, more clearly categorized writing (without...

A lot of modern (as in, 2000-onward) RPG design framework have their origins in the old forum The Forge - this is where a lot of the design ideas like gamist-narrative-simulation (the "Big Model") and fail-forward and the common idea of games trying to tell a specific story comes from. I...

Your friends you're playing with are still a "table". Virtual tabletops are tabletops, but virtual. etc.

If you're working on a system of your own, why don't you just make one thread for it instead of posting so many different threads that consist entirely of your own notes?

It's definitely a major advertising event for a lot of companies - everyone loves to make a big announcement in front of a crowd, you know? Plus (if there wasn't a horrible plague going on) there's the presumably fun aspect of getting to meet new people and play some convention games with them...

Did you know they've invented new games in the last 40 years that don't work as well if one player is 10 levels behind the others? The social contract of "you're here to play a game with all of your friends". If someone doesn't have a character they don't get to play. And like, presumably the...

This may shock you, but it's quite possible these players may have enjoyed the story and the way their current characters experienced it. I'm not sure where you get off just assuming they hate the game. The general social contract of play is that the new character gets slotted in to the party...

13th Age has a system of "campaign losses" - players can unconditionally retreat from any fight. No questions asked. But the bad guys get a victory! They win something meaningful. This is also a good option. TPKs are simply not fun. There's a reason a lot of modern systems completely make...

This isn't really that surprising. DnD and Pathfinder have some of the most complicated character creation among popular games. Having to look through a bunch of different books to make a new character, but it can't be the thing you were just enjoying playing!, kind of blows. Tons of games have...

Is Deadlands dead? It just got a big release last year in the form of updating "Weird West" to the SWADE rules, and that's not even counting the actual release of Deadlands 20th anniversary. In general, I don't think that a game needs to keep releasing supplements to stay "active". The only...

So glad that all the dudes who are mostly famous for being chuds are coming out to oppose this policy.

No it doesn't, lol. Making something easily accessible is what encourages its spread. Much like homeopathic medicine, that doesn't work like that. Are you saying that ENWorld's forums should also be hosting hate speech?

I'm trying to determine where the concept that DTRPG has a moral and/or legal obligation to host Nazis is coming from. Obviously they can not host that stuff if they want to; there's no reason to ever host that kind of thing.

Geb, the ghost king.

These are from Beam Saber, a mech/war Forged in the Dark game, but I presume they are the same as in Blades (I'm surprised they're not described in more detail there) Reduced Effect represents the pilot’s execution being hindered. This consequence reduces the expected Effect by one grade. Lost...

Representation and authenticity is more important than trying to simulate a culture 1:1, which is not something I've ever seen happen. Nor should some historical things be expected; it's one thing to say, well these people over here in this fantasy gaming setting are misogynist because that's...

I would not be running Armour Astir: Advent or Beam Saber had I not heard about the on Friends at the Table, an actual play podcast.

Armour Astir: Advent's "Impostor" playbook is explicitly designed to invoke transgender and disabled identity, being someone who has had their body changed in order to be able to pilot a mech. Also is just about fighting fascists in general.

Being smart does not make you tolerant. Agreed with doctorbadwolf, tolerance cannot be applied equally - ie, lawfully - because intolerance itself cannot be tolerated.