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I get you, I have kind of the same philosophy.

Savage Worlds is my answer to most things. But Everyday Heroes seems very playable and fun as d20/5e systems go, with nifty ideas around INT based chars etc. If and when the Urban Arcana is released I will probably run a campaign.

Absalom smalltimers burn down church.

I’m motivated, prepared and hopefully ready, with glasses on my nose and a cup of roibos tea beside me. Starting on Tomas Pynchons Gravity’s Rainbow in a few minutes.

Well, I've decided not to play Dungeons & Dragons specifically for the foreseeable future, but yes, I GM classic high fantasy as one of my preferred genres. And my biggest beef with dungeons is that my group focus on and really enjoy the social pillar and roleplaying. And the classic dungeon...

I have been known for decades in my gaming circles for including fully usable toilet facilities (with different design and maybe a quest in itself for how to actually use it without public embarasment) in every single adventurable locale I create, be it a palace in The City of Brass or the...

Best of luck! Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e is my favourite system for disease! In the latest Lustria book they added lots of tropical goodies such as Bleeding Eye Rot, Choking Lungblight and Necrotic Foot Rot. The namn alone of the last one make shure you roleplay washing your feet regularly...

I have come to understand that what I enjoy GMing and making is very character driven stuff with a focus on intrigue, conspiracies and heavy roleplaying. Plots and campaign frames are there, but in a more poststructuralistic sense, dynamic and ever changing, leaning on the characters actions and...

I'm extremely bad - or rather uninterested and uninformed - regarding computer tech. But it runs on Unreal 5, right? And when I see Unreal 5 flagged as a feature in game trailers etc, I take that as a hint that my oldish machine (i5, 16 gig Ram, Geforce 1060/6Mb etc) at best can run the stuff at...

I usually only use a very moderate amount of Schrödinger tools, just enough to keep campaign framing and broad plot in sight. That is only because improvisation and on-the-spot creativity is part of what make GMing fun for me. But in principle, the GMs proficiency in using scharlatan...

Given that we only play traditional type games, we've fallen into a pre-campaign rut that work well for us no matter the game and genre: I present a campaign concept with wide frames for play style, setting, plot and theme. There's room for dialogue and adaption, but usually my players just buy...

I'll just be watching this one from the sideline with a large bag of popcorn. Mostly I'm curious how WotC will solve the PS fundamentals of alignment etc - on paper it should be an even harder nut to crack that the Dark Sun "problems", at least if they want to preserve some of the meaning and...

This is interesting. I'm a cis male, but also a feminist. Many of us are well read regarding the male gaze theories where a woman is constructed as an object for male desire, often with the help of specific mediation, styles of make up (or make up itself), and symbolic clothing attires that may...

I like to see the OPs vision as an acquired GM skill, which gets easier with time and with a permanent group of players that want to roleplay and engage with the game. Nowadays I don't think about it much as I often use the same method no matter the genre, and we always play traditionalist...

Let me talk about this from a subjective perspective instead. Me and my table of players are old. We enjoy traditionalist games where we focus on roleplaying, the social pillar, intrigue, conspiracies etc. But we also enjoy good old-fashioned combat encounters now and then, so that's a...

The frames and constrictions of the ruleset directly impact what story emerges from the game and how the players can interact with the world and its inhabitants. Using arbitrary rules and frames without goal or aiming for a specific result might be fun, but not the best if you want to use the...

I'm not very interested in Tian Xia as setting, but I will of course get the books!

I answered realistic since Golarion is my usual fantasy world of choice. But as politics, urban intrigue and faction scheming always tend to be present in my games, there are lots of renaissance Italy that somehow always slips in, at least in spirit.

There are many lists of (un)fun factors in 5e and I won’t repeat them, and you are of course right about WotC. In this context though the problem is longevity and evolvement. 5e has been skillful in changing the direction of the game to get hordes of new players. Now the company want at least...

As others have said, the game need fun and variation, not necessarily more complexity. Imho 5e has a lot of problems in the fun department, and One doesn't seem to change that. And I agree to the comment that D&D need to make it easier for the DM, at least with such a heavy focus on new players...