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Someone's home, sometimes the GM's and sometimes a player's. I have a regular game on Wednesdays which is almost always hosted by a particular player. Sometimes he GMs, but usually not. I have another mostly regular game on Saturdays, which has recently mostly been board games as we lost one...

Crabs trying to climb over one another to get out of the bucket, man.

Not necessarily. Trying to learn a motivation/pitfall without outright asking is a power roll using Reason, Intuition, or Presence. 11- means no info and lose a Patience, 12-16 is no effect, and 17+ you learn something. Of course, just asking can never hurt.

The usual: creatures can have vulnerability or immunity (somewhat poorly named, more like resistance) to various damage types. The Dragon Knight's ancestral trait Wyrmplate gives them immunity equal to their level to a chosen element, for example.

I don't think there are mechanics for it in the book but you could certainly learn things like "Sir Roxers is known throughout town for his lavish lifestyle" which would indicate that Revelry is one of his motivations.

Uuhy uuould you do such a thing?

Draw Steel does allow for setting non-murder goals for an encounter – perhaps ironically because of its explicit gamist focus. One of the encounters in the demo adventure Road to Brockhurst has two possible win conditions: kill enough goblins that the rest disperse, or get the party's wagon...

Then it probably isn't the game for you. The game is unapologetically "Tactical Heroic Cinematic Fantasy". This is not a Swiss Army Knife of a game that can do a lot of things adequately. It does the thing it does, and (presumably – I haven't had the opportunity to actually play yet) it does it...

Here's an example from the demo adventure Road to Brockhurst: Interest 1 means that Gogellwyc starts out fairly unlikely to help. If they can get him to 2, he will point out an alternate route, and at 3 or higher he'll allow them through his territory (at a cost at 3). Patience 5 means the PCs...

The tag line on the website is "Launch into an exciting universe of science fantasy adventure with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! Create and customize your own futuristic hero to play through challenging adventures and action-packed battles against dangerous foes! Welcome to the best launchpad...

One thing I in theory like about negotiations is that they've formalized motivations/pitfalls into 12 rough categories: benevolence, discovery, freedom, greed, higher authority, justice, legacy, peace, power, protection, revelry, and vengeance. These can be expressed in different ways – among...

Jason Bulmahn also ran a game for Geek & Sundry that used theatre of the mind. As for the differences, I think Draw Steel looks much more immediate in what it does – particularly for what passes for martial characters. In PF2, the stuff martial characters do tend to be based on normal maneuvers...

The Troubleshooters has a math-less system for skill modifiers. If something is at +/- N "pips", you look at the ones digit on the d100. If it's in the range of 1 to N, you automatically succeed (for +) or fail (for -). So if your skill value is 58%, and you're at +2 pips, you succeed on 01 to...

So, for those who have played the game: how does it scale with player count, particularly downward? D&D is kind of infamous for scaling poorly at lower counts because of niche protection and not having enough people to cover the niches, but how does Draw Steel work with 2-3 players plus...

I haven't played Baldur's Gate 3 (heresy, I know). But from all I know, shouldn't the name of the book be Astarion's Book of Thirst? I mean, really:

Playing Jago as a "Yeah, whatever these guys are" type character is a valid choice. It may or may not be the best choice for a video meant to promote the game, but it's a choice. But poking around with your phone mid-game is generally considered bad form in a private game (unless you have your...