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Imho it depends on setting/used Companion books and what power/playstyle levers you use - SW is pretty nifty in that you can shift mechanics and power level of campaigns pretty radical. But generally yes, it plays the same even if the GM obviously have to step up the opposition. But it's not as...

You're right. Was going to write something "but" about barbarians and never-washed loincloths, but then again, I had an elder female modern equivalent in front of me at the supermarket queue yesterday. The mixed fragrance of catpiss and badly aged fecal matter definitely evoked inner visions of...

My table of players are into the roleplaying aspects of gaming, but their PCs relation to clothing tend to fall into one of three categories depending on character: 1 They don't give a f 2 They make efforts to dress inconspicuously 3 They are flamboyantly fashion-aware and spend lots of effort...

I love the narrative content of Moorcocks stuff, but I can't stand his writing style. There, I've said it.

Foundry VTT has been my dinner table for some years now. But one product that I really love and use is The Monster Overhaul book.

A simple yardstick is what the game tells you. In 5e you have the CR system that tells us when an encounter is supposed to be deadly. Which it is not, and make us draw conclusions about the games deadliness, ie, a normal PC won't die from a deadly encounter.. And then we have early games, or...

Seems to me that you agree with me, if you are talking 5e, since as I wrote, you as GM are making the game deadly. Or are you telling me that the 5e CR system, which is what should guide us to make a fair assessment of the system, is deadly as written?

Forum rules prevent me from replying. But yeah, evolution sure produced a cute kid.

It's a General D&D thread, and in older D&D one component is - at least how I understand it and GM it - than not all encounters are meant to be able to beat for the PCs, at the current level, without the artifact weapon etc etc. In those cases the GM explicitly create TPK encounters, ie...

I think the op question is phrased wrong. It's not about how often PCs SHOULD die. I think many of us GMs cheer on our party and don't want anyone to die. It's more about the possibility that PCs COULD die. I've played a lot of Savage Worlds over the last years, and even if it's not a super...

I give you that, it's a big part of why SW is my fave system. What I meant was rather that any system can be played with out combat - mosts trad systems are very focused on the combat party, so it depends a lot on GM fiat and improv to work no matter what system. But yeah, Bennies to keep...

I hate and despise Christmas, the most painful and hypocritical of holidays. That includes sanity-shattering Christmas music. Sorry.

Savage World is my goto system as a perma-GM, and we usually play very rp heavy campaigns with a low amount of combat and a focus on conspiracy, mystery and intrigue. And I play it the same I do any trad rpg: I let social skills influence social encounters, but in the end it's the players...

I didn't know PC death was possible in 5e after level 2.

I wonder why threads on this subject keep popping up, with the same actors presenting the same arguments and disagree about the same stuff, where no-one will be converted to a different opinion or position? It's almost as if 5e is so perfected that there's no need to debate about rules or...

As others have said, literary fiction isn't rpg's and vice versa. Me, I'm happy that there are many different systems and play styles re mortality and wounds. From current D&D's practical immortality to WFRP4e where you can die from goblin rot in your toe caused by not changing socks often...

And sometimes, when every concept art image shows a majestic, ominous, spatially dominating tower, one of them might be a symbolic schlong, you never know.

The concept art sure is a phallic fest.

Making a brainchip mandatory for play, how borg bad could it be?

I know the rules, just want to say that the only thing I’m waiting for is proper Foundryfication of Savage Worlds Sci Fi Comp, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. At least one of them should make it during 2025. As to new systems, nah, I’m good for at least 5 years. Unless Warhammer FRP 5e releases...