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Proficiency bonus instead of straight level add for attacks, skills and saves.

As I have Ulfenkarn, here's an ultra-brief review: 1. This is Soulbound dialed down with regards to character power. You're a protagonist, just a little less overwhelming. 2. General premise is that there is a city-state overrun by evil with some suprisingly sane individuals still inside. 3...

I have considered to (and then decided not to) run a campaign. The thing that made decide against had to do with the feel of the game - it's depressing. Were I to run a space faring story, I would pick Coriolis (with some changes) because it keeps the sense of exotic wonder, and has sufficient...

Umm. I beg to differ. I've laid out some monster stats for 13th Age and it was way easier or simpler to adjudicate. Here's a short and sweet example (minus fancy formatting): (Monsters – 13th Age SRD) Bear Normal, 2nd level, Troop, Beast Initiative +4 Bite +7 vs. AC — 6 damage Natural even...

Please post your impressions. I had high hopes for Essential Exalted, but they crashed and burned. Same for Scion 2nd Ed and Trinity universe games. My chief issues were that their system was anything but streamlined, scaled really bad, and the panacea for all low key testing was 'roll only...

22 years is not long? Nokia 6100 was a top phone 22 years ago. First XBox was one year old. No YouTube yet. Google looked like this: Google in 2002 Oh, and we were still in relatively peaceful period: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990%E2%80%932002 As compared to the...

Warhammer Chaos alignment does not really match D&D alignments. First, Warhammer Chaos is about an intrusion from immanently hostile and immanently incompatible far realm. Serving Chaos means gradual descent to physical and mental abyss of otherness. Four great powers of Chaos represent...

I believe that a publisher must tread carefully maintaining their setting. No change - and people will eventually move forward. Too many changes invalidating base material and invalidated setting material will alienate people who invested.

Glad you have fond memories, at least. Pity, you've taken my request to provide data negatively - or at least that's how I perceived your reaction. Still, thank you for taking your time to share. To anyone else reading this, could you provide a Cypher system encounter example where using more...

Could you provide an encounter example that would exhibit the traits you've mentioned? A simple setup, with an NPC whose attacks make it worthwhile to avoid/use effort to counter. Then please demonstrate how using effort actively would beneficial over just taking damage and dishing attacks...

That would depend on whether you want to feel rewarded for your effort. I do. Corporate drone is a person who does their job. They do what they are asked to, no enthusiasm or willingness to add something special. I work for a large corpo, I do it with enthusiasm and I do put a lot of extras in...

Well, I've run multiple fights using Torment:Tides of Numenera (no player volunteered for the experience) and sadly, they were monotonous and unsatisfying. In order to win, I had to use the same amount of effort regardless of whether my strategy sucked or not. The same was true about non-combat...

Agree here. Linking abilities directly to health resource means that in the end, after any resource intensive encounter you end up exhausted regardless of whether you were successful or not. This is hardly a great design if you feel bad regardless of your performance. It's like doing a boring...

NOTE: There is a simple fix for the issue of offensive+defensive resources. Create fourth pool, call it HP. The size of the pool should be 2*Might+Speed+1/2*Intellect for heroic characters, half of that for NPCs and typical opposition, 1/5th for minions (Cypher systems feature ranged weaponry...

Just got a mail with info that there are two humble bundles of note. The first one is MIKE MIGNOLA'S B.P.R.D. BY DARK HORSE This one contains also Hellboy volumes and specials. So a lot more than the title would suggest. The other is CYPHER SYSTEM TTRPG COLLECTION BY MONTE COOK GAMES And...

Ulfenkarn introduces lower tier of power, plus adds a setting (the city) that's very Soulslike/Bloodborney. Tales of the Valiant - I though it was 5E. Care to share details?

Reading beta version. There are many changes, some of them affect class dynamics in a way the class feels quite different from alfa. I've yet to see new icon rules. I recall recommending using PbtA style moves and resolution for them. Hopefully they are less vague and handwavey now. Race is a...

Ok, first of all I am a lazy GM, and I have decided, having purchased a paid subscription of ChatGPT, to try my hand at creating prompts to create a few handout materials for my next campaign. Here's how it went: DISCLAIMER: I know - this is not a human being I am talking to, however I just...

The original world of the Black Company sports several tiers of characters: 1. Mundane unskilled characters. Die like 0-level D&D commoners. 2. Mundane skilled characters. 1-3 level equivalent. Basically, martial characters without magic tools. 3. Magic users, expert martial characters...

Oh dear. It's going to be an extremely tough challenge to do better than previous game. As a fan of the series, I was extremely appreciative of Robert Schwalb's and Owen J. Stephens' (yes, that Robert Schwalb and that Owen J. Stephens) effort at previous game (The Black Company (role-playing...