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But, tone is important to a game. If you're playing a lighthearted game, then you want a lighthearted system. If you're playing a grim and gritty game, you'll want a game to go with it. Dread won't make a great system for the 1850s London heirs to a fortune game, for example. You don't really...

The main reason that I think it is better in FATE is because compels are based on pre-existing aspects. If you describe your character with the aspect TWO LEFT FEET, then its fun when the GM compels you to trip and fall while being chased by the villain because its emphasizing something about...

I agree that Fiasco is a very different RPG than your traditional kind. I've never gotten to play Baron Munchausen, but I've heard of it, and I think its sounds great. I'm using vastly different RPGs to try and point out that certain systems are good at certain things. If you want to play a game...

Okay, but I was comparing Dungeon World, Fate, Dread, and Fiasco. Fiasco has no GM, you don't roll to try to do stuff, and scenes only ever involve two PCs. In Dread you die if you ever "fail a roll." Or how about Everyone is John. In that game, everyone is a different personality of John who...

On playstyle. Dungeon World has a very free flowing game. It has no initiative, and the GM doesn't make any rolls (except maybe damage). You move from person to person based on what's going on, so you can focus on one or two people. Failing a roll means you get XP, so there's a mechanical...

Run a horror game in any flavor of D&D. Then run a horror game in Dread. System matters.

The flow of the game could be quite different. For instance, Gumshoe has rules to keep you from getting into an investigative slump where you miss too many clues and the pacing slows down. d20 Modern would be a better game for a more Die Hard type game as opposed to Sherlock Holmes, IMO. So, use...

I have to agree with this train of thought. It seems to come down to genre and genre emulation more than the system itself in most cases. The system might not matter in a vacuum, but the system's ability to emulate the genre the game takes is incredibly important. A system that works for a...

Dungeons & Dragons is "stagnant," I think, because at this point its just too late for it to bring in anything modern. People who want something more modern have those options. I can go play Dungeon World, a really amazing game, and get the experience I want from the more modern practices of...

Since Keira sent a text saying to head toward the old Bell Tower, and the ghoul in human form outside the mausoleum lair isn't trying to hide from sight, it shouldn't be too difficult to find her.

Subconsciously, or sometimes consciously, people will associate higher prices with better quality. That's just the way things are. If you're shopping for air filters and you see one at $12 and one at $20, you can't help but think to yourself that the higher priced one must contain more quality...

FYI, since Kiera is watching the ghouls, Logan and Juno can travel through the cemetery without incident. Fizzy will follow along behind you as you walk.

I've bought my fair share of RPG books over the past two decades of tabletop gaming. But, when I look back, I realize that I just haven't played most of them. Even stuff I love reading only gets maybe 2-3 plays, because my group is very D&D-centric. So, yeah, I got the Dresden Files RPG, and I...

As you get out of the car, Fizzy swings down between the two of you, giving Juno a wary glance before his eyes coming to focus on Logan. "Big guy, we found your ghouls. They were not hiding very well. Also, there is someone touched by the Nevernever outside watching the ghouls." He looks...

The trio driving up to the main gates of Oakland immediately takes note of the scene: the cadillac from before has smashed the front gates open, leaving little to the imagination that something is up here. It won't be long before somebody makes a call to the police, if someone hasn't already...

I have FATE Core, so I'm not quite anticipating it currently, but its the thing I was most excited for this year. I'm really looking forward to getting my copy of that and especially Accelerated! Don't forget FAE!

From the sound of it, it is more or less the same concept as Fate points from the Fate RPG rules system. In the Fate RPG, you get an allotment of Fate points, and the GM can make "compels" against your character that are some kind of hindrance. You can accept the hinderance, and get a Fate...

I decided to give Bluedevil one last PM to see if he is coming back before moving on to the next scene. If he doesn't respond by tomorrow, I'll auto-compel his MISSING IN ACTION aspect and move him off camera. I don't know if he has PM forwarding to an email set up, so he might not even be...

If no one objects, I'll go ahead and move the scene to the cemetery.

I like FUDGE dice. You get to roll 4 dice, but with only +, -, and 0 for possibilities the numbers don't get out of hand and can more often than not be net 0. This means that results can stay quite tight with a nice bell curve. Fiasco has an interesting die mechanic, where you roll tons of...