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Sure and that's where we might have preferences differences. Alexander isn't here in this thread to explain his blog from 5 years ago and it is in that way kind of unfair to him that we're ripping it apart in here... BUT... He did say doing this style wasn't just not his preference. He...

I've been in the hobby since 1980 with a many year break from about 2005 until late 2022... Back in the day systems just weren't written for this kind of gameplay so I system shopped a lot, hit burnout often, and anything past the rules was often done on the fly. But it's also why I never...

Whereas I've used the 'Deadpool move' of turning to the camera and saying something to the audience both as a GM with NPCs and as a player with my own PCs. I'd probably cause those guys to fall right out of their chairs with 'hurumphing' complaints. ;)

This thread makes me really wonder what 2025-'Justin Alexander' thinks of Daggerheart, given that 2020-'Justin Alexander' raged against what would become one of Daggerheart's core ideas. Does he hold the same opinion today as he did then. Has it changed in one direction or the other and if so...

One of the things that surprises me in the perceptions of a lot of this is the idea that handing this control over and then using what the players come up with is more work. For me it's less. It takes a large burden away while also making the story more fitting to what the table wants...

Put another way (and maybe he didn't mean it this harshly, but my read of that quote gets this impression): Alexander: Hey kid, you like Ice cream? Kid 1: Oh ick, Ice cream is worse than bugs. Alexander: Ice cream is unhealthy. It shall be my personal mission in life to ensure you never have...

No. I think me and Mr Alexander would be like oil and water on this topic. For me this is immersion building and not doing it just helps me slowly tune out. I'm not there to passively be fed an experience. I'm there to make a story together. Give me some of the authorial control. And as a GM...

Ah so that’s what SD meant. Yeah I would hard pass on a game like that. Some might love it but to me that’s the same as playing Clue or Checkers. A GM using initiative while running the influence system in PF2E is what finally “broke me” on Pathfinder. After that experience I started...

I find DH is great online. But I much prefer it when cameras are on and there is no 'battlemap' as that really helps with narrative focused games. (I don't know what 'SD' was in the second half of your post. I'm guessing that's a comment about not having initiative? If so - for me that's the...

Enough that they're past their third reprint. Plus a few reprints of the limited that isn't supposed to get a reprint... ;) And that's just physical books. It's been the number 1 selling item on DriveThruRPG for some time now. Number 2 is Legend in the Mist which despite being in that spot for...

Does Drawsteel use Vancian spell slot magic rules like old editions of D&D and current Pathfinder do? That's one of the biggest downsides to Pathfinder - the magic is way too typed to the style of a single nearly unheard of fantasy author from the mostly 1960s that for some reason D&D players...

YouTube often just won't even show videos that lack clickbait titles and thumbnails. I'm seeing an uptick in videos that have that, but then are perfectly normal once you hit play. Videos lacking this can get hidden even if you're a regular watching subscriber. You kind of just have to know the...

Meanwhile all I can see is Elminster in a mankini draped over the rollers of a slot machine showing results using beholders, mimics, and gold pieces. I envy you your visual as I do not want to see Elminster in a mankini but Borat burned that notion into a part of my brain that will not go away...

I'm just glad they don't own Mattel / Barbie or that movie a little bit ago would have come with an Only Fans page... But it's only a matter of time for Elminster to get his. :P

I've owned a Tesla Model 3 since 2018. Before we knew Musk was... problematic. It's paid off and worthless for resale now so I keep it. That said were I to replace it, I would only go for another EV, and despite opinions of the brand, I would only go for one that could use the Supercharger...

A lot of serial killers probably have better motivations... D&D PCs very often kill people to get paid or to steal the stuff of the people they kill. Trying to get a group of players in a fantasy RPG to do something just because it's the right thing to do, and to the minimize loss of life...

Bought the digital pack for Legend in the Mist https://sonofoak.com/products/legend-in-the-mist-all-digital-bundle Now I've been hovering over the same pack for one of their other games, Otherscape. Most of the week. I'll probably buy it today...

I agree. Not just D&D though. I don't like them or their equivalents in any tRPG. I'm fine with nature and spiritual forms of magic that circle around it. But anthropomorphizing it gets weird. Plus, people don't like it when I make this opinion (some folks get extremely mad about this view)...

The biggest flaw with a lot of fantasy pantheons is given that regular people also have super powers - you'd rightly see all those guys running around claiming to be divine beings as full of it. All they are is more powerful super heroes and villains than you. In any 'pantheon' where a mortal...

Fantasy was always Steampunk and often even had high SciFi. It was only D&D that wasn’t and that bled into other tRPGs and fed back into some post D&D “litRPG” fantasy. But we’ve always had rayguns, aliens, and robots in fantasy. Let alone steampunk. Terry Brook’s Shannara was originally...