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Voted Comedy, Horror, Fantasy Western which describes my Deadlands game fairly well... Actually it describes just about ALL of my gaming campaigns if I replace "Western" with just about any other genre. My D&D-type games tend to be Comedy, Horror fantasy. My sci-fi games tend to devolve into...

Backed this at the Give Me Both Books (paraphrase) level; Looks like something useful.

Uuuuh, there goes more of my money! Correction: The billing it as "world’s first wearable roleplaying game," not the "world’s first roleplaying game"

Part of the $200k was my $200 as my daughter would LOVE this. Gifts are nice. Unexpected gifts rock on toast.

Uh, as Parmandur so humorously pointed out (see below). It may be 77 pages long but it's really a bunch of back and forth between 8 to 10 posters. And that's just among the tiny minority of players that make up ENWorld (however much I may love reading the forums here). Hardly a large group of...

I just go with the Average or whatever that number is in the parenthesis. If the player decides they wanna roll, I haven't heard about it. And don't really care much. As the DM, I have a 1001 ways to drain hit points if I really wanna.

I was just coming here to ask if there was something I accidentally changed. Really like seeing if I'm clicking on a thread that just won't die or something new.

How hard did you find it to get an AGE group together or did/are you running for your already established group? I'd like to play/run more of it, but haven't figured out how to sell it to others. I do like that Foundry VTT has an unofficial AGE ruleset that is coming along nicely and that Green...

Way back in 1981 I made my first character for D&D. Since then I've branched out many times into a long list of games (too long to write down or even remember!). Right now, I'm playing in a StarFinder game. I'm running a smaller 5e game, but also Deadlands: The Weird West (for the dude and his...

Part of the reason, I think, that it works so well for streaming as it doesn't concentrate on numbers so much. And by that I mean, there is close to no "I get a +2 from here and a -2 from here and a +1 from here" etc., etc. I find watching people add up their modifiers extremely boring as a GM...

I thought they were 10 minutes. Might have to look closer at the rules! Ha!

Which might be why I'm contemplating sticking the Keep on the Borderlands in the Savage Frontier on the Sword Coast in Faerun! LOL.

I feel like The Keep on the Borderlands really hits the quintessential Starter Village mark for me. I literally ran a 3 year long campaign centered around it.

I agree. But is it the world that makes the game exciting or the adventures that make the game exciting or a combination of the two? I mean, there is a lot of DM skill involved. A great DM can make a white board exciting. A poor DM can make even the best world and adventure a chore. So there is...

I think I didn't express myself well in the OP. My players are quite invested in the game and, typically, will ask at the end of the session when we can meet next. We are, as a group, very satisfied with the game, game-time and hanging out together But I've come to believe that it's because...

I completely agree with this. Which is why I only mention myself and my players in the OP. I dislike painting with a broad brush and was also why I asked for others' input.

Over the decades of playing and running games and creating what I think of as fascinating worlds, I was informed in a non-insulting "yeah, cool. Nifty. Uh, when can we kick ass?" sort of way that my players don't really care about the world except in the context of having a place to adventure...

Strangely, I feel it was a good idea as well. But I understand how that might not be to your liking. EDIT: I should elaborate as that came across unnecessarily snarky. I like the idea that I don't have to add on magic items or feats to keep up with the maths. I also CAN add on magic items and...

To me For me, alignment is just shorthand for how the creature, person, etc. MIGHT and TENDS to act, but it's not a straight jacket. I find that useful.

These are all things that I know. I've been playing since... ugh... feels like forever. Yes, if I ignore the Campaign Settings, I don't get overwhelmed. But that holds up to just about anything. Back in 81 when I started 1e, we ignored most of the rules which made it super simple to run. Doesn't...