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Down to the laboratory, now.

I need a system to give me the tools I need to run it then get out of the way. A basic mechanic for resolving interactions and character types or archetypes or classes or whatever to behave in that environment. I don't mind multiple systems or subsystems, mostly as examples of ways to do things...

I tell them the types of gems and the gp value. Some players write down the gems, some write down the gp value. I frankly don't find it worth the hassle to micromanage how they do it, but I'm always entertained when someone brings up that they have an open (for example) and wants to use it for...

11yos + Sandbox = interminable (DCC Purple Planet)

As others have approached the level limits question, I'm going to focus on psionics. The Complete Psionics Handbook has a completely different mechanic for running the abilities than the Skills & Powers book does. In fact, the Skills & Powers book was a deliberate revision to the 2e psionics...

Saw our first PC death. :( This was in my weekly public DCC game, the the player just grabbed a different pregen and immediately integreated the new character into the group in a very novel and entertaining way, but it was still a bit sad.

OP didn't mention PoD being a factor, true. But if they ever want to do PoD through DrivethruRPG, they can either use Scribus to create the web PDF and a different program to create the print PDF, or they can choose a different program and just use it for everything. This page specifies that...

Hmm. My wife and I have been friends for over 30 years, and she is one of the people who played in the first campaigns I ever ran. She's been a resourceful and innovative player from day one, and she's a delight to have in any group. She tends to think outside the box - big time - which can...

I wouldn't use Scribus. I believe that DMSGuild, and probably Ingram/Lightning Source in general, no longer accepts PDFs made using Scribus for PoD projects. And for my part I had an absolutely awful time using the program to put a book together back when it WAS allowed. If you don't have...

Like many of us, I've been GMing so long it would be shorter to list the mistakes I HAVEN'T made. The one that comes to mind though is from a very early campaign I ran - one of the first if not THE first - back in 1995 or so; this would be AD&D 2nd Edition. The party came acoss a cache of elven...

Kobold now Old Master's herald. (Dungeon Crawl Classics)

I've used this book a few times. I like it. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/323923/101-city-encounters I've also written two urban adventures: one set in the City of Brass on the Plane of Fire and the other set in the metropolis of Huzuz in the Al-Qadim setting. Both include city...

Lots of responses here, and some great points. Thanks, everyone! I feel this. The first harcover I ever produced has slightly oversized text (by which I mean an 11 point font instead of 10 point) and a couple of folks commented on it, but it sure is easier to read. I'm looking at a pair of...

Does the size of a book influence your decision whether or not to buy it? For example, do you prefer (or avoid) zine-sized books as oppposed to full-size (A4/8.5x11") books? Someone recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for a TTRPG book I throught sounded really good, but when I saw that...

My homegrown fantsasy world takes inspiration primarily from Mesopotamia ca. 2000 BCE and the D&D Known World/Hollow World. There are a handful of reasonably well-known nation-states interact with each other as necessary, but culture and geography can vary dramatically in fairly short distances...

I bought an oversized Rick Roll d20 off someone on etsy.

In the three-rogue sub-team, I definitely took charge and was kind of configuring what we were going to do. Now, that's part of any normal game on the player side, of course. But since I normally DM and get to decide what all the monsters and NPCs are going to do, it kind of feels like I was...

I've never had a campiagn that was "short-term" on purpose, either as a player or a game master. There were plenty that came to an end before any of us intended them to, because people were no longer available or whatever, but I don't really plan for finite arcs. What I try to do (since I...

Dude. I'm so all for it. I never cared much about the FF one way or the other, but I love Silver Surfer and I dig everything I'm seeing here. Including the shadow of Galactus. Maybe they'll do it right this time.