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Dragon Warriors is one of my favourite old school RPGs, I played it back when it first came out and probably played it as much as BECMI D&D. The out-of-combat stuff is a little thin by modern standards but the game is still solid. I wouldn’t really describe it as epic or high fantasy...

We have two groups, a weekly one of GM+3 and a monthly one of GM+5. For the monthly one we will only play one-down, and since it is so infrequent we would negotiate a different weekend in the month to make that happen. For the weekly game we try to only role-play with everyone there...

I’m considering buying a gaming table, but for board games. With RPGs the physical components are reliably put away between sessions but with a long board game we might want to split a session in two and that would mean leaving stuff out. Even though I have a ‘dedicated’ gaming room it gets...

I have two groups, with a large overlap of members. One plays weekly on a mid-week evening, the other plays monthly on a weekend day-evening slot. Works out as an average of weekly as the mid-week session includes board gaming too.

The new option doesn’t quite capture it, but it’s close enough. We played plenty 5e but got tired of it. Last D&D-ish campaign we played (about a year ago) was Level Up. One of our occasional GMs fancies trying 5:24 next, which should start in a month or two when I complete my Savage Worlds...

There isn’t an option for my situation: not currently playing D&D, someone in our group wants to try running the new D&D rules next.

I don’t think Rincewind’s player needed a superior intelligence to play him. Or any of the wizards on the Discworld for that matter!

The Secret Level episode on D&D is fantastic, and the Critical Role animation is also great fun to watch. I think an animated streaming series is the natural home for a series based on D&D IPs - the costs must surely be less than a feature film with the live action and marketing costs that entails.

Remasters of the original computer games have also been released so there is a wave of fan interest to ride as well. Excellent timing from the publisher.

A friend of mine runs a hobby business and the market forces him to use Facebook as a primary contact channel, but that then became very stressful when FB decided to close down his page with no warning, consultation or any apparent reason to do so. So sites being owned by individuals is...

When Morrus closes down the D&D forums and only the Level Up forum remains we can call this site a ‘house organ’. Until then, I will consider this an independent forum site.

I voted ’somewhat important’. It’s a nuanced thing. My players want their character to shine at the appropriate time (like the ranger tracking as an example) but they don’t want to cake-walk things. Also, being able to shine doesn’t mean that they are impervious to damage or threat. That is a...

In card based systems (as a Savage Worlds fan, I have a lot of practical experience of them) having more cards is how your have ‘better initiative’ since cards represent options. Dragonbane already has a mechanic that gives a character more cards, it’s just a Heroic Ability rather than...

I know some people have that experience. I can only say mine is very different and combat moves along at a nice clip for our group.

That sounds like another bad habit people learn from playing CRPGs with a central protagonist character and a cast of supporting characters.

I think Savage Worlds supports the ‘5 room dungeon’ model quite well since that isn’t usually about a grind. But more involved ‘dungeons’ than that are tricky. Quick Encounters are definitely something to lean into when wanting to have lots of encounters. If I am running a dungeon-style...

I really enjoyed running Eris Beta V for my group. It was written for Deluxe and the previous Sci-Fi Companion but would require almost no conversion to run with SWADE and the new Sci-Fi Companion. The first half of the campaign is quite open with lots of events for the PCs to get involved in...

Is there a particular genre you would prefer? I am sure there are several potential options.

I can see this could be politically sensitive. Switching out encounters perceived as a ‘waste of time’ could be seen as disparaging the source material and clearly neither party wants that.

I voted ‘somewhat open’. I bought and read a lot of RPGs looking for the perfect system for many years, and realised this was a fairly futile exercise. I found a system which is nearly perfect for me in Savage Worlds so that urge is dialled right down, now. I still keep an eye on new system...