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First edition! How's the second one?

I've shifted to Playing at the World by Jon Peterson. It's been on my shelves for more than a year. I like it so far. I had read about the wargaming roots of the hobby but this book really breaks it down. It's interesting to see how different games and designs each gave to D&D part of what makes...

I don't know if I'll ever get to play the game. But it's honestly such a gem of interesting ideas and things done differently. I'm not done with it but it is an interesting read for sure.

Writing rules is very hard. I had to do it for a few board game projects at work and it's one of the hardest communication exercise I had to do. I agree that brevity and clarity are two different things. Clarity can be achieved by adding more words, by being more precise, etc. But it can also...

I'm slowly working on my own system and in the last month I've thought about magic. Right now, I'm leaning more towards having a chance to fail casting the spell that's based on an exhaustion level. The exhaustion level goes up with every spell cast so it becomes harder and harder. Higher level...

That's good to hear. I love Free League and own many of their games!

People seemed surprised when they announced a new edition so soon. I saw quite a few people mentioning that it might be for marketing reasons, to try and profit from Alien: Romulus' release. I hope the new edition was really motivated by a wish to improve the game meaningfully and not just to...

What if it's an endless quiver that can hold a fixed number of arrows, and magically replenishes one arrow every hour. Then you still have to track the arrows?

Lots of pirate-themed games.

I adopted a tool called Notion which I've introduced to my workplace. Since then I use it for a ton of things. It's basically a markdown-equivalent notetaking app with some powerful features like making some relational databases. For RPGs, I have a database of games, and a database of books...

So my girlfriend insisted to watch the remaining episodes. Were now done with Season 2. It might be some of the worst television I've watched. Season 1 felt soulless but inoffensive. Some major departures from the lore immediately killed the show for me, but I was able to non-chalantly cruise...

I have very few positives thing to say about the show, which I'll detail in the other thread. However... [SPOILER FOLLOWING] The shot of Durin swinging that axe at the Balrog was amazing and made me immediately want to play a TTRPG. I love dwarves, they're the best ancestry.

Ah, interesting! I've started web development two years ago in my free time. I also decided to go with Svelte. It's so elegant and easy to work with. My stack is similar, except that I haven't dove in backend yet, so I haven't really touched to Express.

Just out of curiosity, what tech/languages/framework you and/or your team chose to go with to build this?

The old formulation suggests that only the temporary hit points granted by Armor of Agathys trigger the damage. The new formulation suggests that any temporary hit points trigger the damage.

I found the first season to be pretty mediocre television. But there's a few moments I enjoyed and I was open to seeing what they'd do with the feedback. My girlfriend convinced me to watch the newly released season. I've been a lot of people saying it's better than Season 1, but I disagree. I...

My experience is that players don't care about the settings at the start, or at least most don't. But my experience also showed me that through play and time, you can reliable get them to care a lot about the setting.

I'd agree with this. The war between creatives and managers/marketing has always been strange to me, as I found myself on both sides of the fence and understand them quite well. The idea that if you leave creatives alone and let them do the products that they want to do will inevitably lead to...

In my case it has a big impact. But only on D&D as an actual product. It doesn't affect my interest in the hobby, other games and the books and editions I already own. I haven't bought a D&D product since 2020, an I don't see myself buying more in the years to come. There's just too many good...

I bought Mongoose 2nd edition earlier this year and I've been slowly prepping. I'm about to run it really soon. I'm really excited!