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It's dependent on system and campaign theme. But both me and my players do try to fill combat with descriptions of effect, fitting the theme. I'm currently riding a Dungeon Crawl Classics high though, starting a campaign next month where I expect 80ies heavy metal splatter movie levels of...

For me, 5e is a system that after a couple of levels become more and more of a superhero game both in practice and presumptions. That is, everyone around the table knows that real death is a very, very remote possibility, no matter how I try to challenge them in combat. Instead the focus is on...

Not a necro thread yet :) I'm an old GM but new to DCC. I'll start up a campaign in September, really looking forward to it! As to XCC, to me it seems amazing and I'm sure my table would love it. But we only play via Foundry, so I really hope there will be full Foundry support for XCC.

On a gaming summer break. But I will start a DCC campaign next month where my Appendix N inspiration obviously will be Appendix N. :) Next year I'll start a Savage Worlds sci fi campaign where I aim explicitly for a slightly fattened up Traveller sandbox with ancients-style secrets. Appendix N...

We've moved to Savage Worlds as our system of choice. I've planned a system palate cleanser with a DCC campaign starting in September, then I kick off a long SW sci fi campaign next year. So no D&D in sight.

Regarding DCC and long campaigns: We usually do heavy roleplaying, heavy background stuff. But I bought DCC on a whim a while ago, and got seriously bitten by the nostalgia bug. My players are a decade or two younger than me, and I think they would enjoy the player skill focus gaming style for a...

I do, we are summer parents for three male ducks. They are incredibly charming, social and fun, but they sure love doing no 2. So they roam our pond and spacey garden where they live, but are currently banned from entering our house.

Don't let your ducks get indoors when you have fed them too much lettuce, they poop frequently and liquidly and it's really hard to clean your carpets from it.

First The Fantasy Trip, then Traveler and Runequest 2e. AD&D came much later.

I agree with everything you say. But I won't write anything about it myself, since the last time I discussed the slavery vs murder morality I got banned :)

If I didn't get killed in that cellar with giant rats I would definitely get rabies or crippling PTSD. And our gaming table would be massacred by 8 goblins with a hound rider. I might survive a short while as a scribe in the Old World, until I got corrupted by chaos, but doubt I could last more...

I usually run pretty sandboxy campaigns where I start with a rough sketch of a first plot arch. This always get changed, since the best creative tool for me as GM is party stupidity, wrong conclusions, paranoia and bad planning. Usually that makes for campaigns with lots of intrigue, roleplaying...

I'm amazed that they manage to keep the quality up. Season 4 was incredible with a great ending and the right resolution/cliffhanger ratio. Looking forward to S5.

I'm an elected far left municipality politician. I view myself as a feminist and try to act accordingly. Rights and representation for oppressed and disempowered groups - LGBT, women, functionality variation, ethnicity etc - is a given. I have enough academic merits in soft social science and...

I don’t see the use of ancestry books when players can have whatever skin and background they want?

PDF draft version of Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion. I don't do kickstarters and have been waiting for this one for a long, long time. SW is my main system and the SFC have everything I wanted and then some. Now there's just the wait for it to get Foundryfied...

Ever since WotC started to move away from traditional racial identity, and the route they have gone since, I just wish WotC would go all the way and just make a long list of linage abilities that cost 1-3 points each. The players have 10 points to pick and choose from the list to make up their...

If one want to run a connected campaign, not just a series of unrelated adventurous evens and locations, there will always be some kind bad guy hierarchy. It may be overt and basic, or covert, conspiratorial, multi branched, organizations within organizations etc etc. But bad guys delegating...

In our real world, late stage capitalism is one of the BBEGs that will end the world. But I don't have Elon Musk chasing me with a greatsword. It's the gazillion of minions in sales, marketing, advertising and share holder value maximizing that is chewing at my soul. So BBEGs that delegate in...

While still playing 5e my players knew that the system made their characters practically immortal no matter what I threw at them, unless their chars went full on suicidal death wish while ODing benzo. And that's ok, it's what the system is made for. If they up that in 5.5 it's only a matter of...