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I’m just getting my feet wet running Daggerheart and so far it’s going great, but one thing I want to utilize more is Environments. I’m planning on taking a stab at building some, but for those already running any additional tips, advice or (heh) pitfalls involved? Anyone have any examples they...

(Not to mention the plane of Mechanus and Modrons being very robotic)

In the Planescape Module “Doors to the Unknown” one of the planes you travel to was a giant circuit board.

If I’m with the right group with the right board game I definitely adopt a “character”, but it’s usually more for laughs than with any kind of serious RP in mind.

One thing I’m also impressed by is that Enterprise toy from the 80’s being in such good condition. The diecast nacelles were infamous for breaking apart in my circles.

I don’t have any to add, but I wanted to thank everybody for these suggestions! I’m often in need of short one shots and I’m taking notes!

Over 60 hrs. I’ve actually played very little D&D this calendar year. The games I’ve played in or run have included: Shadowdark, Dragonbane, BattleTech/Mechwarrior, multi-supernatural World of Darkness, and now Daggerheart. There’s also plans for some WEG Star Wars (coming soon!)

Yes, I always have, but I will moderate the voices I do if a certain group isn’t into it as much. The voice helps me find the character’s personality.

I ran a one-shot where everyone was a dragon in a world where they were the last of their kind. And I’ve played in an all-kobold adventure that was mostly done for laughs.

I remember being introduced to the game by a friend of a friend. She was one of the first female gamers I had ever met. I think Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Gary Oldman and Keanu had just come out. We didn’t play it (sadly) but she loaned me her first edition soft cover book and I found it utterly...

In my case I didn’t back this one because the cost of getting all the decks was rather steep, so instead I ended up buying another Core Set. Some others may have decided to do the same(…?)

I’ve been doing this since the 90s, taking elements I like from different adventures or settings and adapting them to whatever game engine I happen to be using. And I often utilize materials from older editions of RPGs for newer ones, even if the core engines aren’t very compatible. One...

I’m about 50/50, but it also largely depends on the game system I’m running and the players I’m running it for. Some I play with like tightly plotted stories, and others like lots of ad-libbed role play, and yet another group enjoys ol’ fashioned dungeon crawls. I’m happy doing any of these.

The Marshal/Warlord feels like the biggest missing role from the line-up (my group ended up using the A5e version which served quite nicely). Myself and some of my other players really loved the 4e swordmage and their highly mobile brand of ‘tanking’, but I don’t see this current dev team...

Agreed, I’ve been really liking what’s coming out of his Odyssey, project, but I think we’re still a long ways off from a finished package.

Oh I forgot 13th Age: There was a lot I liked, and I only played 1e, but I didn’t like how some classes had randomly-activated abilities and others did not (I generally don’t like abilities that only activated from a random roll). I also really bounced off how damage scaled up. I prefer 5e to...

Here’s the spinoffs and adjacent I own and have played and my take… TotV: if you’re looking for 2014 style D&D with some new tricks and cleaned up classes, Tales of the Valiant is a good choice. I see it as a sort of parallel evolution of 5e 2024, where different choices were made. It’s also...

I like this theory but wasn’t this piece by Larry Elmore? I’ve never seen him without a beard.

Yes I played it in the day, and while I still go back and read some of the materials and even adapt some of the old adventures, I’ve never played it since. AD&D 1e was like being on the frontier in the Wild West; it was new, it was a little forbidden (at least by some Moms), and paradoxically...