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My point was more about women than men. SOME men explore the in-game consequences of gender, but in my (limited) experience, MOST women avoid them. The parallel to queer experience is that I guess queer people, like women, have enough of these problems RL and don't want to explore them in games...

I picked up Blades in the Dark and at least skimmed it now. My immediate thought is "this is the rules SLA Industries should have been using". :) Almost everything from BitD is also in Princess World - Frontier Kingdoms - the one thing missing from memory is the Engagement Roll, which is a nice...

I've seen this with female players. Males playing female characters often like to explore the consequences of their swap. Women playing female characters get that in real life and have no patience for it in a RPG.

Wise words. Candela Obscura has removed most if not all the campaign elements. It also has 9 abilities, instead of 12. It can give play experience, but only in the action parts. I'm happy with that now, but later I may want the background elements too. Princess Kingdoms has a version of them.

If I want to fiddle with this system to create my own hack, I suppose the version to start from is the original BitD? Patient Zero so to speak, the original and unmutated?

A question about the RAW of BitD. If you fail (a roll of 1-3), does that mean you just fail, or is this a fail AND a consequence? I don't own the rules, and the impression out GM gave me was that if you made a Devil's Bargain you suffer a consequence when you fail, otherwise you don't and just...

From my scant experience, consequences are the trickiest part of BitD games. You roll very few dice, so consequences will be everpresent. I guess we rolled too much, even in situations that could perhaps have been automatically successful. From more traditional RPGs we're used to using rolls...

What I'm looking at atm is Princess World - Frontier Kingdoms. I must admit the low price tag made it an attractive entry point. And I like what I see! In particular I like that each princess has an individual and unique title and power descriptor. A possible issue is the breath vs tight focus...

OP here again. I was going ro reply to posts here with thanks, but its been too many, so I'm just giving you likes. Thanks a bunch, now I have a lot of things to look at!

I've recently had the chance to try out Blades in the Dark (hereafter BidD) and Candela Obscura. Just a single session of each so far. I would describe the later as mechanically kind of Blades in the Dark 1.1. I like the lack of an action economy in these games. There are no turns, instead there...

Generic "Fantasy" in film and video games has moved forward in time. Much of fantasy today is steampunk, or at least roughly renaissance, if with a more Chinese framing.

I'm playing in a version of the World of Greyhawk that is at about 15C of development in its most developed parts, so firearms are starting to be common - but not with the fringe groups my players are fighting. And no player has shown interest - the artificer used one early on, but didn't stay...

It seems PF2 managed to pick up the parts of 4E that Pathfinder 1 players disliked, yet not the parts of 4E that 4E players liked. I vaguely recall echoing another poster here at EN World that said this earlier. :( My personal pewees is the magic item scaling and the powers/feat that are not...

Tourists do indeed pay more. We once were tourists in a Shadowrun game. Debating what it would cost us, I said "monthly living expenses, but per week". The table agreed.

In my Savage Tide campaign, one of the players was playing a sprite - a tiny humanoid fey. In that game we invented the Familiar's Club of the city of Sasserine. This was an informal gathering of familiars and other similar tiny pets. A social club, politics, alignment, and conflict was banned...

About DM alignment - its interesting how a LN and a CN GM are functionally the same - the difference is that while the LN GM kicks players, a CN GM makes them quit on their own initiative. :D Quoted for truth. The only edition of Call of Cthulhu I own and have read thoroughly is the first, and...

Recent research has shown that Europe had a solid system of grain trade to supply areas of bad harvest. Famine would only become serious if harvests were bad over a very wide area. This far is what I read, from here it is my speculation. Who would be able to buy grain and transport it into an...

Just as an aside, a solitary monk is an eremite. A monk living in a community is a cenobite.

Which some of us call bordgame-ism and very much object to as it feels more like an absurdly detailed boardgame and less of a role-playing game. Tastes vary. 4E is forever divisive.

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