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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I can indeed see where you are coming from! Good points.

Would you mind elaborating? It is certainly my attempt to include those games (D&D is where my experience lies). After all, D&D has a resolution mechanic that applies to any input, which is the DM decides the outcome. It then has a more specific mechanic, which is the DM chooses a DC and...

Just here to say I adore gnomes and loathe halfings haha. There have never been any halflings in my campaigns and there never will be unless I have a player that chooses to be one, and then they can come up with a halfing populace that they hail from. (I don't ban any fantasy races in my...

For me I voted cantrips, because it's rare for the party to encounter any friendly spell casters at all, and enemy spell casters usually have 1 or 2 spells and nothing more. Even cantrips like 'mending' seem to be near miracles to me, and if these were wide spread in the world I think it would...

There's lots of great ideas in the thread. I haven't ran any swarms yet, but thinking about it now, I would want to focus on "what makes this cool for the players" rather than on how to make the swarm itself super detailed. I love the idea of the players having to "carve a path" through a never...

I've been trying to refine my own definition of an RPG after thinking about this thread over the past few days and am leaning towards: "A game with resolution mechanics that can cope with any player input". So, essentially any game that allows a player to attempt anything - and then has a...

It’s an interesting question. I come from a wargamer background, and there are some wargames that stray incredibly close to RPGs. Take Inquisitor by Games Workshop for example. Players control fighters as individuals, usually controlling 4 each (a leading Inquisitor and their 3 henchmen). There...

My 5e collection is very small. 3 Corebooks Rime of the Frostmaiden (not directly using it, but running a winter themed campaign so mining it for ideas) Strongholds & Followers by Matt Coville. I don’t use anything in this book, (don’t rate the contents all that much), just a long time fan of...

That is some really lovely art on the front cover!

Yes I have done something similar. There was a battle in the Dwarven Hold against an army of Gnolls. The party was being escorted to safety by a Forgelord and his Honour Guard when they were attacked on both sides of the alley. The party held the rear, while the Honour Guard fought those in...

The party in my current campaign has 2 NPCs with them. The reason I added them to the party was for immersion and world building. Both Dwarves, 1 is the son of a Forgelord from the Dwarven hold they are helping. The other is an old Dwarf that's there to look after the pack donkey and help set up...

I give out XP for killing monsters as soon as the encounter ends. I also give half XP for monsters that rout. They get XP for completing puzzles and circumventing traps (given as soon as they clear the room/area), and get XP for completing quests. It’s important for me that the players get...

Out of curiosity, do people know how many game designers are in the team currently, how many work on each book, and how long they have to write each book?

I personally love Dwarves. My gut response is to say, Dwarves are probably more popular with male players than female and non-binary players (generally speaking), and as the percentage in the playerbase of the latter 2 rises (which is great!), Dwarves are going to fall down the rankings as a...

I talked about my experiences a bit in another thread, but I let my players have free reign with their backstories during character creation. These backstories form the first building blocks of the world and then I build the rest of the campaign world around them. For example in my current...

I see worldbuilding as something the players and DM should do together, so I keep many aspects of my campaign setting fluid and undecided until after session 0. This is because I don’t want to put any restrictions on what my players can choose, so any class or race from any 5e D&D book is open...

I’m a DM for a group of inexperienced players at the moment, and I am buying them all spell cards for Christmas to make spell management a bit less of a nightmare for them!

My custom injury systems was inspired by a computer game (which ironically, is the sequel of an adaption of a tabletop game that was inspired by D&D - Warhammer Quest 2). I had this coin-drop moment when I saw their injuries system was not full of permanent effects but instead temporary...

I have a fair few house rules, but none of them are massive system changing things (at least in my opinion), just tweaks here and there. I use house rules for the following: 1. Encumbrance (simplified system) 2. Critical hits (players get to roll on an extra table that might blind the enemy or...

Haha, if this is not the raison d'etre of YouTube, what could be? :love: Awesome video.