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Technically, my first ever session was a dude's place that my school friend was playing every week. They had a 2E campaign going for like two years. I played one session and didn't really enjoy it. So 2E would be my first TTRPG ever. The following year my math teacher in high school organized...

My actual functional prep I try to keep at 30 min for a session. But I generally have a at least a dozen or two hours of prep ahead of a campaign. And I tend to do so loose prep here and there when I go to coffee shops or have some free time. Just jotting down ideas.

Happy for you! I'm still waiting for that email more than a year after the planned date. I can't wait. Really hope it comes before the holidays!

The notion of combat being a fail state in OSR is something that gets greatly exaggerated though. Combat is not a fail state, it's just that it can easily lead to a fail state (dying). Combat is dangerous. The odds are more in your favour if you find another way to solve your problem, or to...

I've got a couple. There's definitely a match between what's on my shelves and what I want to have: A thorough hexcrawl campaign through Dolmenwood Go through the six-book campaign of Symbaroum Do a long historical campaign. Something medieval/Viking-esque. I did plenty, but life has kept them...

I'd be really curious to know more about your solo journey. These are quite different games mechanically. I've only dipped my toe in soloing. Could be in another thread on in PM.

I have about three dozen systems in my bookshelf that I've read and die to play but didn't have the chance to play yet. It's definitely not only D&D!

Ever? Maybe around ten. Right now? Only one. Although my group might have imploded because of layoffs.

You'd think so. But language and language are not synonyms either. Common mistake.

Every day is a bad time for my annual RPG budget. Oof, I was interested but yeah, that is the priciest PDF I've ever seen. I can get whole boxsets for that price!

I think the difference is that the pineapple thread is obviously offtopic. He focuses on communities built around a specific thing (in most cases a product). If we take his own product as example, lots of people get excited for Draw Steel. They get together and they start talking about it...

To those that are a bit put off by the length, I'd say that the first half is the most relevant to the current discussion about topics, roughly 30 minutes of it if it helps. Once he starts talking about Price, it swerves into a slightly different lane (not that it's not interesting, the price of...

Burning Wheel has rules for fighting. But I've found out of all the games I've played, it can satisfyingly go on the longest without any combat and still be captivating. Currently running a 11th century anglo-saxon/viking campaign and we have yet to have a fight. And if you want to stretch...

Matt makes this distinction in the full fledged video. I'm paraphrasing, but coming and saying "I'm unhappy with this aspect of 5E, it doesn't work for me. Am I misunderstanding it? What could I do if I want to achieve X?" is technically being critical of the game, but not out of dislike of the...

So, Matt Colville released a video about community building recently. I like Matt, he's a smart guy and I almost always learn something from his videos, or they're just generally interesting. So his latest video was definitely on my radar. Then, I heard/read it being praised by three...

The fact that they'll offer a free PDF with some of the content there eases me. I'm especially interested in the examples of play.

Edit: Of course, only after posting, on second viewing do I notice that there's a thread already existing. Old-School Essentials — 2026 and Beyond So, as I'm still eargerly waiting for an email saying that my big box of Dolmenwood is on its way, I received an email this weekend. Necrotic Gnome...

Some rulesets allow you to have a bonus if you take an action or move action to aim instead of moving. I've added a house rule a few times where if you moved, you had either a malus or disadvantage on your ranged attacks. You either took the time to aim and shoot, or you skipped around and did...

I did the same mistake earlier this year. Great motivation to organize all of it. Put it all on the floor, motivation dissipates. That's a high CR trap right there.

I almost always do dark settings. Whether it's a story of hope or despair depends on my players and their characters. I don't think the setting is inherently hopeful or in despair.