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= Sun Fallout Daggerheart: find McGuffin, empower then use.

My experience is that sci-fi and supers tend to be much more even. Classic Traveller assumed most NPCs would be rolled up by the same methods as PCs. A partial exception was the random encounters, but the stat ranges are comparable to 2-3 term characters. MegaTraveller, SpaceMaster, Phoenix...

The ordering of GM moves from soft to hard is a great tool for thinking about how to react to various player moves. I think the bottom few should be fear spends.

I found it more like `11 of 12, most of which (7-8) were showing "how the world reacts". An interesting idea - probably should have been an option... But I've not had any shortage of things to spend fear on.

The Tier 1 Solo "Construct", 5 balance points, was major damage to the 3 PCs of Tier 1, last sunday. It didn't need backup, especially with 2 spotlights in a row as a 1 fear cost. It could have gone either way... save for the fact that I rolled a number of 1's for damage.

Sun Fallout Daggerheart: Char Gen, fight steamtech construct Wed Fallout: Raid Mirelurk Queen, RUN AWAY!!!

They are ALL metacurrencies, unless they're tied to some in-fiction item being expended. Resources are a subset of metacurrencies.

Yeah, it (Daggerheart) has 4 metacurrencies in frequent universal use: Hope, Fear, HP, Stress. Two of those are damage tracks (HP, Stress, but stress is also a trigger for many abilities). the other two (Hope/Fear) are player/GM mirror for powering special abilities. Several of its classes have...

Wictionary offers this: Which puts hit points into it, as well as XP. Fate points, D&D 5e Inspiration. It also puts many class mechanics into being metacurrencies. If it's X per Y, but has no material, somatic, or verbal component in fiction, it's a metacurrency. Many ignore 1/scene or...

Most games with metacurrency have multiple... Then again, XP/AP are metacurrency, even tho' most don't think of it as such. HP also are on the border of metacurrency, especially when defined as AD&D did. 2d20 has momentum (PC)/Threat(GM), and a third, which varies by setting...

over 11,000 last time I checked the RPGGeek.com database of RPGs, and I'm knocking a thousand plus off for being new editions.

Classic Traveller is a common example of early RPG styles. The thing is, I've seen how Marc intended play to go, and it doesn't support "The answer isn't on your sheet"... nor "The answer is always on your sheet." But lots of people, quite erroneously, think it's one extreme or the other...

No, not "Oops!"... more like "Bazinga!" it's gotten egagment and discussion. To a very small segment, at that. Some of the most creative play I've seen was "How do I make this work for us here?" based upon an ability. e.g.: D&D 5e's Out of the Abyss, I had a player with an elemental monk...

I don't like dragons as kaiju, myself, but they'd be doable. My preferred dragons are Pterodraconis sapiens, from Castle Falkenstein, second choice being the Earthsea ones. But my players seem to prefer The Hobbit's Smaug. And I'll note that Earthsea's dragons are frightfully dangerous...

The commentary implied that it was a weapon of last resort, and the Deutches Polezei (sp?) typically shot in the face, rather than center of mass. A one shot kill is often a one-shot stop. And the thinnest parts of the skull are the eye sockets...

Dragonlance is a series of novels, supposedly initially based upon the authors' campaign, which was then ported to be AD&D1 adventures (DL series), then an AD&D1 worldbook. Then, there's the Dragonlance Fifth Age (DL5A) - which is a card driven game, player facing mechanics. It came out in the...

My local officemax has 1/4" and 1" as routine in-stock items.

While true, I was referring to non-computer classroom role play...

As an FYI, there are both presentation pads and desk blotters with squaregrids, in 1", 1/2", and 1/4", commonly available. alternate terms for presentation pads: chart pads, easel pads, flip chart paper

I generally use PDF, so I print the page to measure accurately, then poster-print them at a suitable scale to be table use size - that said, I use 1/2" squares, and most maps in adventures I've used are 1/5", 1/4", 1/2", 5mm, or 10mm... and I'm aiming for 12.7mm. 1/5 is 250%, 1/4 is 200%, 1/2...