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There's How to Host a Dungeon which just had it's second edition come out this past January. DriveThruRPG.com Not as story driven as Quiet Year, but it's still neat. Rolling side and checking charts to build your dungeon and populate it full of various beasties. Avery also did a fantasy themed...

I'd suggest picking up a game that has creative and rp elements, but doesn't have any of the homework/prep timesink. First one I'd recommend is The Quiet Year by Buried Without Ceremony. It's a mapping, society based RPG that, start to finish, probably takes about 3 hours to play. GM hat gets...

Point 1 - I would prefer the design to have characters find something secret as an aspect of the game that isn't delivered via google maps. Investigation, rumors, clues, innate Dwarven suspicions. Point 2 - You can design a dungeon to fit on a battlemap without it providing meta information...

My pet peeves: Building/dungeon layouts that just don't make any logical sense. Dead end corridor? Three otherwise empty rooms in a row, each with big scary monsters in them that have just been hanging out for a thousand years waiting for an adventurer to wander in? If things live in your...

I'm attempting to run a Slack based Torchbearer / West Marches style game. It's been slow to start, but I think it's going to find its feet soon, and I think that it and Slack are a good fit. [EDIT] I should also note, that we're attempting to do this with absolutely 0 art and player handouts...

I'm starting up a West Marches Torchbearer game and, before I start hammering too hard on the Overland Travel "The Road" Playtest Package, does anyone know if an updated fanbase version exists out there? (especially one that includes river/water travel)? Barring that, can anyone point me to a...

I'm in the process of building a play-by-post Torchbearer/West Marches style game. We landed on using Slack as the backbone, and I've found two apps to handle the heavy lifting (a die roller and a text spoiler/obfuscator) The problem, is that I'd really really love to build my own app to...

Dude, take a look at the world around you. Every country that has been dealing with this for more than a couple of weeks is in complete lock down. States in the US are only now clueing in and shutting down businesses and asking/telling people to stay home. Nobody in your group thinks that...

Son's college has shut down, and the TV show I was working on had it's plug pulled because of the pandemic. We put ourselves on voluntary quarantine because both of our jobs had us at the crux of a TON of possible disease vectors and I want to make sure that we're healthy and able to help our...

This is close to something I had been playing around with for a hexcrawl game back when we were at Pitt. Instead of classes, everything was just fleshing out between magic and mundane skill trees, and your class was just the descriptors and coat of paint you put over top of it.

Have you had a sit down with the player asking them what they might want their path of victory to be? The fact that they're gaining story benefits and not power level benefits would make me more willing to make concessions towards them achieving their goals (though not for a TON of additional...

This is not like anything I would have imagined, and how it describes what this kind of Batman movie is probably going to be really excites me.

It depends on the game, the system, and the players for me, though I think that I prefer games where a character's backstory emerges through game play as an explanation and reaction to events.

Yeah, isn't that "Palpatine is a clone"?

Granted, I've been systematically purging Rise of Skywalker from my brain over the last couple months, but I thought that they had spelled that out in the movie? How did they explain him being around if it wasn't the line about how the Sith can clone people and worse?

Remember that this is also the story that had fax machines as the biggest most impactful invention in the known universe.

I don't know if there's something that I want to see more of MORE than I want to see the spectacular indy stuff that's already out there that's not D&D getting more press and publicity.

ETRs are experimental mechs made in response to The Jihad. Jihad

I've only ever run two evil D&D games. One in highschool that devolved into sociopathic, backstab, PVP-o-rama before characters had finished being rolled. The other was a laid back Scarred Lands military campaign, where alignment has nothing to do with what the "natural" alignment of your race...

I myself am straightedge, and though I don't have a problem with others drinking, I find that any game night where alcohol is involved usually gets painfully stupid and no fun for the non drinkers about an hour or so in. Games transform into a slog of just watching the clock, waiting on other...