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I don't know how much of it you'd be able to port into your world, but I always push any edition of the Scarred Lands setting. In the same vein, I think that the new Spire book by Rowan, Rook, and Decard is absolutely brilliant, but that one will be even harder to shuffle into an existing...

This one actually isn't PBP, it's real time, attempting to focus more on descriptive writing than "typing in a funny voice." The out of game chat is asynchronous, but actual play time is about 3-4 hours real time. It's actually a lot closer to a MUD or old school text adventure than anything.

I'm probably a special case, but I'm running a game of Torchbearer split between Slack, a Google Sites site, and a shared Google spreadsheet. The only "table top" aspects of the game are die rolls, simulated by a /command in slack, and an "each side chooses and plays three face down cards and...

I'll give another thumbs up for meetup.com. Once the last dregs of my college gaming group became real life grownups, Meetup was a great way to tie into the other groups in the area. I use it to find gaming groups when I travel for work too.

I just read the first Black Company book by Glen Cook, and though it wasn't spectacular, I'm hearing that it gets better with the second. Gritty military/fantasy. Following a mercenary unit of cutthroats and brigands and written from the perspective of the somewhat fish out of water company...

I agree with the classes, , but alignments are already baked in to the symmetry of the color wheel as long as you don't bring the non alignment definitions in to clutter things. The opposite of white's goodness is black and red's evil. The opposite of black's evil is the inherent goodness...

I think that as they stand, they're probably a lot closer than you'd first imagine. I think that a better way to translate D&D's 3x3 alignment system into Magic's 5 color system would be: Good - White or Green Evil - Black Law - White or Blue Chaos - Red Neutral - Opposites In that, you'd...

My preferred method when I ran my last four player campaign was stat array with a twist. No two characters could share the same high or low stat (including whatever stats the retiring or recently dead character had). [EDIT as an example, If the high str/low int barbarian died, and the rest of...

I forget what podcast it was, but there were an easy half dozen brilliant episodes of Dogs in the Vineyard where a bunch of brits did the absolute WORST cowboy-movie-western accents you can imagine. It's not necessarily any easier, but what I used to try doing was to set in my brain not what...

I'm all over the place, it depends too much on the game, the system, and the other players and their comfort levels. I've been in table top games that were almost method acting LARPs, and I'm currently running a game where we're actively trying to squash roleplaying (ie typing in funny voices)...

If I remember correctly I started reading the site around 2004 or 5, but didn't make an account till after the D&D forums went down in 2007.

I actually really enjoyed the new Paranoia. More than anything, it made me realize how dated the science fiction vision of the original had been, being written in a world that hadn't yet discovered the beauty of <blink> tags and Flappy Bird. As for the communist/terrorist swap: the commies...

Though I remember those days fondly, and though I wouldn't say no to a one shot OD&D romp, there are a world of things I would rather play instead.

@polyhedral man wondering what it was that you felt was pretentious or patronising? I don't think anyone would argue about that first video being uninformative, but I just wrote it off as a gag by people more interested in getting the information out with methods they were comfortable with...

I'm getting to this conversation a little bit late. Torchbearer wasn't my go to game outside of the pandemic, but it is inside, and I've been running a Slack based Torchbearer game for the past couple of months. For people not at all familiar with it or its parent games, I tend to describe...

Packing Foam. It comes in sheets and bag form. The sheets tend to be either tear-apart like a roll of paper towels, or just a giant roll you can cut up yourself. https://www.uline.com/Grp_18/Foam I personally haven't done minis in a long loooooooong time, but if I did, I'd almost definitely...

I don't have a TON of free time at the moment, but would love to throw my hat into the ring if you need a simple frame or two in a material other than just colored marble and you can't find it anywhere else.

Checking out Morrus' Patreon, but the contests (at least so far) have been the ones I've been striking out on. They tend to feel very shark-jumpey to me. Something full of glam and glitter to make it stand out from the crowd and get noticed.

I'm looking for recommendations for people's favorite one page dungeons and adventures. I'm trying to populate the last few corners of a West Marches style wilderness game and about 80-90% of the lists of one-pagers I'm going through all seem to be a little too far down the spectacle and gimik...