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I just wanted to confess to having almost made PB&J quesadillas at least three times in the last two weeks. I've been working hellish hours on the new job and not wanting to put too much effort into making a food when I get home, and although there's no bread there's a pack of tortillas that's...

I'd point out however that there are a lot (a LOT) of systems out there now where the chance of character death is entirely in the hands of the players. Historically it might be a relatively newish exercise, and might be relegated to the realm of corner cases, but I'd say that overall, the...

Are you at all able to divorce the idea of it being the character somehow making the decision instead of it just being fate, chance, or coincidence? In your experience, what's the best system with the least metagaming you've played with?

I had run a "spies/tomb raiders" Scarred Lands campaign for about a year and it played around pretty heavily with rules for languages, accents, coinage, exchange rates, and encumbrance. In the end though, I think that I enjoyed setting up those systems more than my players enjoyed playing...

Must have been a pain in the ass to shuffle the tiles for the next game.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. I've been playing a bunch of one shot indy games since a full weekly campaign got to be too much for my group to juggle with full on adultood, but Blades has been a shining pillar of excellence. If you're looking to try out some other, more different(er)...

Aside from personal preferences, there's no reason why all of that couldn't happen in fast forward.

The next party could be a group of medusa hunters with absolutely no interest in the other story line at all. Just a roving gang who scour the country hunting down medusae and saving bestoned adventurers.

Not to derail this further off the established rules, I'd argue that anything involving a charge on horseback should get a bonus, and that someone charging, in full jousting heavy plate, complete with arret, armed with a heavy, cedar, war tipped lance couched under their arm should get roughly...

Beyond there being different types of lances, they were also built to do different things (pure damage vs trying to unhorse someone), and there were different ways to attack with them (stabbing like a spear or couched under the arm turning the entire horse, rider, and lance into a single...

I went back and forth over that sentence a bunch trying to find the right way to phrase it. When you've got the reins you have the ability (you don't always need to do it) to move the horse's head which makes the horse want to go wherever it's head is pointing. When you're steering with your...

I was a professional stunt jouster for 5 or 6 years, and although my experiences were never battlefield tested, they should still count for something. That being said, I'm torn over whether real life alone should really dictate whether or not something like this should be allowed by a DM. My...

Not sure if it'll be up your alley, but you might want to check out the BFF Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rosscowman/bff-the-rpg-of-girlhood-friendship-and-adventure

I agree with the "ask your players" consortium. I'm always a big fan of the players coming up with not just their characters, but the entire idea of what their group is and what the groups goals are.

In college, we had different RPGs depending on which assortment of people were there. When I ran my D&D campaigns post college, it was usually a play down one, or play boardgames if we were down two or more. Now, as a full fledged adult with full fledged adult players, I run one shots and...

I don't think my son was three when we started testing the RPG waters, but when we did start it was mostly just back and forth storytelling about his favorite TV shows and video game characters accompanied by dice so that he'd get in numbers and colors practice.

And because I see that the old server I had my power card backs hosted on has long since disappeared: https://imgur.com/a/0DAhoq6

Yeah, that's the thing. I can completely understand how it might taste good, I just can't figure out how the inventor ever decided to mash those things together in the first place and stick them between two pieces of bread.

I was nine, but we didn't make it much past the first text block before my cousin got bored and wanted to play ColecoVision instead. I was first introduced to D&D by my father, who bought the red box, but never figured out how to play. A summer or two later, there was an activity camp I was a...

My wife's favorite sandwich is peanut butter, butter, banana, and mayonnaise. I've never had the strength to ever try a bite of one and see why she likes it so much.