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haha what? Scalpers gonna scalp I guess.

Ok but a lot of the context I see it discussed in is absolutely looking at 3e+ D&D play in a very pejorative sense. "Oh you just look at stuff on your character sheet and click it, haha very skilled." Is all of it meant in an uncharitable way? No, but like the emphasis on "orthogonal thinking"...

Maybe a little bit, but honestly isn't the sheer statement of "skilled play" and all the context around it pretty uncharitable as well? The implication (and straight up statements) is that play outside of the OSR is unskilled. Which I think we all know quite well is a load of horse crap. What...

My take, having read a bunch of stuff around OSR ethos + participated in a fair bit of discussions on the side of some NSR games + run a couple myself: "Skilled play" within this context is a combination of a) knowing the tropes and concepts that surround classic dungeoneering to avoid chancy...

It's called Freebooters on the Frontier, and 2e is in play testing. Really clever take on fusing Dungeon world with higher GM authority through excellent move design and stats. Comes with a DCC inspired funnel even.

Not to spam the thread a bit, but we just got done with session 0 of my "Keepers of the Emerald City" modern urban fantasy setup and I'm so stoked. We have: The Rogue Calanthe "Callie" Sullivan (Highborne Cait-Sidhe/Katari, 20), scion of new money fae. Experiences "Oops, I did it again! :'("...

Im terrible about using clocks etc in most games that offer them, but I'm setting up a set of countdowns to move when the party does Long Rests with all the narrative threads they've uncovered. Trying to avoid the Skyrim etc problem and show that if they pick one thing to tackle the other...

A note after running some sessions, a lot of your T1 adversaries have way more stuff going on then I think the game intends for that tier (apart from solos) - 2-3 features seems the expected set at T1. Similarly, difficulties for T1 should generally be 14 at the high end for Reactions, more...

Sure, but I generally don't really care nearly as much about the mechanical bit (within bounds of not breaking things) as the effect of signaling something narrative via mechanical effect. Saying "your hope die is smaller" just feels totally different then "roll with disadvantage" or "take -2"...

As I’m throwing together stuff for my games, I’m having a lot of fun messing with the dice. Splitting the roll and giving each a context makes for interesting vibes: roll your hope dice twice and take the higher has a fun ring; or roll the fear dice twice and take the lower. I know there’s some...

The DS Delian Tomb is more of a Lost Mines level of "entire low level adventure." I was pretty impressed with what it gives you after reading through it, but it's not a quick thing (and boy does it reinforce that this is "and then you have a combat....and then you have a combat...and..").

As noted by @Old Fezziwig two pages ago, Ron Edwards for Sorcerer.

Ok sure just show up and succinctly make my point why don’t you :P

Here’s what I’d toss out there: in a high-turnover, public setting with a good likelihood of strangers, being open with tables and creating an atmosphere/expectation up front that people are encouraged to communicate when something unexpected is making them feel uncomfortable probably shapes the...

Roleplaying games ask you to reach into your imagination, grab something you hope is interesting, and pitch it forth in front of other people who may or may not be strangers in pursuit of an enjoyable shared hallucination. That's pretty freaking intimate in terms compared to a lot of other...

I’ll absolutely concur that if you run into people who object to their concept or usage you’re probably safer not playing with them ;).

Meguey Baker has an excellent blog entry noting that we should really call them “communication tools” and not safety tools. These techniques and tools don’t make you safe, they just give explicit mechanisms to structure the discussion and deal with unexpected reactions in a way the table agrees...

At least in the version I'm looking at, Malice shows up on the encounter sheet for D1 where the adventure says to describe it to the players. The Guard encounter has no Malice shown. I'm talking more about general formatting though, as others have pointed out regarding the lack of use of colors...

I have two fathers in my recently started DH game who Lined out violence to children righh at the start. I’ve had that be Veiled before, but this was the first time I’d played with parents. I haven’t played with an X Card out, but have done Check Ins and also had people just verbally drop a...

That's awesome! The first game I saw do anything like this was Fabula Ultima, who leans into the JRPG styling in their Press Start intro and "unlocks" the character sheet in a similar way - fusing learning a portion of the mechanic with an immediate introduction of use in the module. May have to...