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Hot take: Cypher System is a better game engine than 5e.

It came from a Neil Gaiman Tumblr post. https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/43087620460/i-was-reading-a-book-about-interjections-oddly

To which news are you referring, and how does it demonstrate that I am "obviously" wrong? I was quoting you (hence the quotation marks), so it's whatever you consider to be sanitized.

Call me crazy, but it seems to me that a con game in which a GM is running for a group of people s/he has never met before is the perfect place for "safe games" in a "sanitized environment."

I personally wouldn't call The Inbetweeners mature.

A bit of a tangent, but I couldn't help but be reminded of this: https://www.facebook.com/TommySiegel/photos/a.814196891929314/2889711161044533/

It's something I always wonder if I should include when I run con games. I always try not to include material that will make others feel uncomfortable or unsafe, but we can never know what will end up doing so. (For instance, I know someone who gets really freaked out about spiders—possibly to...

I just realized that the thread I saw was from the Kotaku In Action subreddit, so of course it's going to be full of edgelords who think people are sensitive snowflakes. Never mind, their view in this matter doesn't really count.

Unfortunately, there seem to be plenty of people who think it's okay. I just made the mistake of reading a Reddit thread in which it appeared the majority of posters were of the opinion that what the GM did was perfectly fine and that the players were just being too sensitive.

I'm really hoping Destination Danger makes its funding goal! I'm definitely a sucker for Indiana Jones-esque pulp adventure, and I love the idea of a portable card-based RPG that can be played in less than an hour...

I realize that this thread is over a year old, but I wanted to chime in for anyone like myself who comes to it in the future. I unfortunately haven't had a chance to play it yet, but I really like what I see for White Lies. It's from DWD Studios—who also publish a percentile-based espionage...

As a matter of fact, I did. Total brainfart.

Admittedly, my impression of this came from comments by someone who didn't like Pathfinder as much as 3.5 because he didn't feel it was as complex as 3.5. One of the things he cited (that I can remember off the top of my head) is the fact that it reduced the skill list. (E.g., hide and move...

I could almost agree except for the fact that Savage Worlds places so much emphasis on maps and minis and has all those little fiddly combat modifiers that come into play.

But wasn't Pathfinder originally sold as a more streamlined version of 3.5?

Is there anything that explains how that works? Also, what if it's a spellcaster?

I welcome anything that makes monsters and NPCs easier to run at the table. I really enjoy the way some of the OSR systems distill them down to their most necessary elements, often just armor class, hit dice (which often double as a to-hit bonus), and any special notes on their attacks.

Oh, I see. Up until now, I wasn't even aware that compendium-only content was even a thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought $20 per book for the compendium content was a limited-time price for the launch of D&D Beyond and that it went up to $30 per book after the first seven days. Don't get me wrong, you get a lot more for your $30 through DDB than you do through DDR, but I...