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I've been thinking recently that Dragonbane would be a great match for the 1st edition Forgotten Realms sourcebooks from the 80s. I feel that they are both envisioning worlds with very similar feel and also looks.

My opinion is that the authority and ability to dictate events in the game of the GM is not given by the mechanics of the game. Different games encourage the GM to give the players different degrees of agency, and that encouragement can come through the way that mechanics work. Though it...

In PtbA games, the GM still has most of the same power as in any other games.

The agenda is player agency!

Dragonbane fills my long need for a game with a similar scope to oldschool D&D, without all the downsides of D&D, like classes, levels, spell slots, and the weird old attack roll system.

I'm really just looking for a game engine without a setting. There is a little bit of fully optional setting with the game, so this is working perfectly for me. It's the rules only. The core, so to speak.

I was always under the impression that RuneQuest and Dragonbane did explicitly reference Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, and meant it as a silly joke. What else could it be?

And RuneQuest is American.

We've been talking on the Dragonbane discord how the Monster mechanics would make for great Dark Souls or The Witcher style campaigns. Monsters not making attack rolls was the one thing that seemed really odd in my first reading of the rules, but is now my favorite idea of the system that I...

Spell slots instantly come to mind. They are probably the main reason why I never could really love any edition of D&D, and never was able to see it as a fitting system to represent living worlds.

But are they still OSR? Why? Or why not? i think in the end it comes down to what people play and make that they refer to as OSR. I've never really seen anyone call their non-retroclone games OSR, and in most discussions I've seen about OSR, people only talk about D&D retroclones. Is there...

It is, or is based on, Original D&D or Basic/Expert D&D.

D&D has been an identity crisis for the last 40 years.

Pedator has one great movie and one decent one. That's not much of a series. Alien also only got two great movies, but it does have a couple pretty interesting adaptations of the world to other media.

Let's introduce the kid to Morrowind.

I can't do prep if I don't know the game world. But I feel in practice, you can always just not ask the players such questions, even when the writers of the rulebook believe you should.

I think one problem is that the post-apocalyptic car chase battle actually makes little sense in most situations. It requires that the attackers find the defenders while at their cars, and that the defenders are not fast enough to escape, and also will have an even harder time to defend...

The idea of AI written RPG systems is still making me laugh every time I see it.

I think Shadowrun might work quite well as a setting for the Year Zero system.

"I remember it clearly. I've just been coming out this bar at 3 am..."