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It's so fkn sad that Hollywood is just rehashing the same stuff over and over and over. Meanwhile I'm sure there's some outstanding scripts with original stories that just end up in the trash. They're never gonna top The Arnold and Richard Dawson - classic. But I'm sure Stephen King isn't...

Why not just play a video game? It's essentially what you're trying to do, right (computer gaming)? I don't understand how people are trying to reinvent the wheel here and I'd really like to know your motivations for pursuing this kind of game 🤓

Running: Mutants & Masterminds 3e, The Arcanum 2e and gearing up for Shadowrun 4e 😃 Playing: 5.5 (what a slug of a game system) 🥱 5.5 reminds me of buying potato chips where half the bag is empty off the shelf. There's just nothing there: skills and feats have been literally abandoned the...

I play online and people leaving games is expected behavior. Some people hang around to make a character and chat, then as soon as the game starts POOF they're gone. Then some people don't like the game or the GM style or they don't like the PC they made or another player rubs them the wrong way...

Pathfinder fixes issues with 3.5 like grappling and skills while adding far more race, class, feat, trait and spell options. Why would you go backwards and play 3.5?

Okay but where in the core books of any TTRPG does it say all the players have to be the same? Sure, the same level, but is it required that all the PCs are "balanced"? If so, without mentioning level, define how the PCs must be "balanced"? If one player chooses a more proficient collection of...

In over a decade of running several adventures, I've never seen a party flee. No matter the odds. IME players like to gamble: they think the dice will roll their way no matter WHAT. And they do sometimes which is fun & dramatic, but when they don't - cancel Christmas. And like someone said we...

Yeah but HOW is it a problem? People here are clutching their pearls over "the problem of Optimization" but no one can explain HOW it's a problem.

The numbers suggest many of the people the hobby gained during 2020 left by 2022, but those that stayed branched out from D&D to play other TTRPGs like Shadowdark and Blades in the Dark. As an industry (that includes board games), TTRPGs is expanding greatly so it's safe to be optimistic about...

I'll bite: how is someone wanting to make the best character they can "problematic"? Let's say they aren't cheating and they aren't telling anyone else what to do and they aren't "hogging the spotlight" or competing with the other players. In over a decade of continuous GMing (at least once a...

Powergaming (optimizers, munchkins, ect.) is a recognized playstyle and there's nothing wrong with it. The players in a group aren't competing with each other in most ttrpgs, so having proficient PCs in the party makes perfect sense. A problem that arises is "show-offs", players who attempt to...

Interesting that people are taking a course. I'd suggest reading Mike Carr's In Search of the Unknown and Gygax's AD&D 1e Dungeon Master's Guide. They can also be useful to new GMs 🤓

This suggests all your playtesyers have the exact same playstyles, thus providing you with a consensus of what's good and bad regarding the ruleset. Which is possible but highly unlikely. Some players enjoy a good degree of genre simulation and historically this has been achieved in ttrpgs...

Call of Cthulhu's great success is in the SAN trait. The concept that PCs slowly lose their minds when constantly exposed to horror is genius. And it's not about the players being frightened - like most ttrpgs, the focus is the PCs. A group can joke, laugh and have fun while their PCs are...

Don't forget having a published adventure and the core books. That's how I started out DMing in high school: someone gave me Ravenloft or The Ghost Tower of Inverness then I just read the boxed text and reacted to the players. There was no prep but we still had fun (usually). As I've posted in...

Draw Steel. IMO we may never see that game and even if MCDM does deliver, it won't even have the impact Shadowdark has.

Can you prove it?

Why do you guys keep posting this nonsense? Pathfinder outsold 4e multiple times. That, and PF1e was the most-played ttrpg on Roll20 for a period. Add to that that TSR, the company that originally produced D&D, went bankrupt. D&D isn't some invincible overlord that can't be dethroned. I'm not...

No time better than the present. This way, when it does happen and everyone's looking around in shock, I can be the guy that says "Told ya so!" ;)

If you haven't prepped anything, how do you handle combat? This is D&D we're talking about ...