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I voted Roll20 because it is what I bought in to and am comfortable with, but I recently discovered Alchemy VTT and it may well be my replacement of choice (at least, for some games). I have been a player in Shard but find it rough as a GM, and I bought Foundry and messed around with it but...

I've been eager to run Dragonbane, my group has agreed to adopt it starting next week for the New Year, so very excited.

I wonder who the dev team is composed of.....it will be weird having a T&T game with none of the old guard attached to it.

Alien 2E, the new Conan RPG and OSRIC 3.0 have me intrigued. There are a metric ton of games on the list I have never heard of before, though, so as more info comes out some of those might grab my attention.

I enjoyed Dark Alliance, but yeah it was too much of an arcade style experience and not even spiritually connected to the original Dark Alliance games, both of which have been updated for modern consoles and PC.

Those are really different styles of games, though, and appeal in specific ways that are not universal. I explored PbtA heavily (got into AW, DW and a few others) and I realized I really intensely dislike their approach, which feels to me extremely procedural and counter-intuitive to the...

I've experienced this phenomenon in SW games on two occasions, one as the GM and once as the player. Poor luck and poor player synergy can lead to the problem, but after I encountered it as a GM I shied away from the system for a while (we're talking all the way back to original 1E SW days). I...

I would have totally been down for a Year Zero Engine powered Evil Dead game. Heck, I could see a 5E powered ED game if it included Army of Darkness.....

Also a valid kind of game, but likewise of its own type. I wouldn't want to shoehorn D&D into such a mold when another game would suit the playstyle better.

As a type 2 diabetic with a type 1 son, the kind of diabetes makes a difference.....Type 1 prior to the invention of modern medicine and insulin was pretty much a death sentence, so assuming Type 2, I might suggest something that induces fatigue and negative effects tied to diet, rest and slower...

I've been mulling over your examples and this. Let's reframe the concept that there's a power dynamic/conflict between the players and the DM, and instead suggest that there's a storytelling dynamic in which we seek dramatic tension and uncertainty. In improv, they use the similar concept of...

I will take that as sound advice. I knew more about Asimov because I avidly read his works, met him one on occasion and met more than a few people at cons in the 80's and 90's who had some very interesting stories to share about him when he was alive. I never read Bradley, so I guess that was...

Holy crap. Asimov: had a reputation as a lecher that I knew about when I was a teen. I knew Piers Anthony, even wrote back and forth to him, but he, too, was rather typical for that generation. But Bradley??? Reading the wiki page freaked me out, I had no idea.

Regardless of any interpretation on the content, I will state outright I am using the new DMG at the table a lot more than the old DMG, and not just for magic item look up. So is the GMG good? Totally. But the DMG 2024 is also good, albeit for different reasons.

Elon's on a list of "People I can't wait to never have to hear about again." It's a long list, and he's way up in the top three at least. FYI seconded to those who have mentioned what a good book this is for the actual enthusiast.

I think there's a world of difference between a DMG that has a "new DM guidance" section, and a DMG that is pretty much noting but new DM guidance. The new 2024 DMG is firmly in the latter camp, and while I like what it does, I suspect strongly that in a year or two WotC has plans for an...

By contrast, I assumed at first you were blasting WotC for their lackluster and unbalanced material. I use Kobold Press stuff and find it is much better than most of the other 3PP content available, and more well thought out than a lot of WotC content.

I'm going to go contrarian here and suggest that their review is spot on, and its problem is not being inappropriate but rather feeling a tad desperate. I have both the new DMG and the GMG from Kobold Press, and their review/stealth attack ad is pretty accurate. But to the OP's point, yes Level...

Oh, this poll really needs a choice labeled, "I have it, I am running it with the new books, and my feelings about it are a mixed bag of screaming cats. I love cats, but these guys are freaking out on me and its very hard to carry this bag."

On this point right here I have to suggest maybe you try DMing a bit. If you think there's a case where a DM isn't having to invent or think on the fly, you will be surprised. Even a rigid DM running a programmed module with loads of preset "read this" text likely has moments where he has to...