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Ironsworn. Ironsworn. Ironsworn. Ironsworn. Are you sensing a pattern yet? Ironsworn is fantastic and meets your criteria at every point. Ironswornrpg.com

I'm somewhat relieved by the fact that I'm not alone in my opinion of the final boss battle in Jedi Survivor. And the main culprit seems to be exactly what I described. Multiple instances where the boss gets to perform attack chains with dodge mechanics that the player has no recourse against...

Are you familiar at all with Ironsworn and its dungeon-crawling companion, Ironsworn: Delve? Ironsworn isn't BitD, per se, it's more of a hybrid of Apocalypse World / Dungeon World and Blades in the Dark. The resolution mechanic is different, and player traits are structured differently than...

@payn --- your comment kind of goes back to my thoughts on player expectation, and the idea that you want to be good at what you're good at, right? In my head this is kind of a "neo-trad" sort of headspace. In the past I've used a player who says "I want to be Batman!" as an analogy. The...

One other thing that came to mind about expectations of specialization --- In video games like Guild Wars or WoW, it's fully expected that you can just swap characters in a split second if the party needs something specific for a certain type of mission. I can't imagine a TTRPG game group...

Oh man, me too. The one level where you have to sneak onto the boat was some of the most sniper fun I've ever had in video gaming. I would max my rifle skill and specialize in sniper every time, except your brother, Paul Denton, gets ticked at you if you go too far down the "cold blooded...

There's definitely something to your thoughts there, @niklinna -- In the original Guild Wars 1, the height of the fun in the "campaign" missions came right around Level 14-15. It was the big boss run in the "wintery" area whose name eludes me. You had enough skills at that point that you could...

So I was trying to catalogue a little bit more about the gameplay experience and drill in on applicable principles for gamemastering TTRPGs. Part 1 -- Emotional Stakes There's something to be said around matching combat stakes to the emotional resonance or emotional tension. As GMs, I'd say...

I mean, it's not "cheating," per se. It's fairly clear throughout the game that most of the "boss" level foes are mostly immune to "Jedi mind tricks," and the "standard" force pull/push/lift/slam cadence. But the end boss just takes it to a different level. Like, sure, take away my hard earned...

** WARNING: This post may contain spoilers for the Star Wars: Jedi Survivor video game. ** Two nights ago I reached the narrative climax / end of Jedi Survivor. I'll do my best not to give away too much about the final "boss" battle, but be warned that some spoilers may slip through. If it's...

D&D 5e -- The world's most popular RPG, no matter what the Internet says. Savage Worlds -- Because you've never mastered calculating multiples of 4, and don't you think it's about time? Genesys / FFG Star Wars -- because you're reading tiny icons on your phone all the time anyway, we thought...

For fantasy, if I'm not going to roll my own setting, I'll go with Golarion, even though it will never be with Pathfinder rules. BECMI "Known World" is a close second. For sci-fi, it's hard to beat Star Wars, in the post-Ep. 3, pre Ep. 4 era. But I also really like Ironsworn: Starforged...

I've played exactly 3 sessions of 5e ever, so not going to be much help on that front. :p🙃

Ironsworn was by far the best system I've run online. It's the only system where playing remotely had even close to the same energy and engagement of a live session. A lot of that has to do with how the mechanics feed into scene resolution in easy-to-digest ways, and the mechanics point...

Genesys / FFG Star Wars -- I bought these on a hunch after reading the Genesys core rules, thinking if nothing else I'd have a nice, generic, more rules light, narrative focused core than Savage Worlds. So I expected to like it; I just didn't expect to really love it as much as I did. Ironsworn...

Dearth: 1: scarcity that makes dear specifically : FAMINE 2: an inadequate supply : LACK For clarity, did you mean to use "dearth" in the quoted sentences above? Did you rather intend to convey one of its opposites, e.g., "abundance," "variety," "smorgasbord," "assortment," "multiplicity,"...

There's an excellent Blades in the Dark hack called Court of Blades that I kickstarted back in 2021. Highly recommended. It takes the core Blades' "heist" sequences, but sets it up to be much more focused on courtly intrigue. Your "scores" are carried out at fancy ballroom galas, in the secret...

Unless it's on pizza . . . .

** Looks at Honor Among Thieves poster ** Hmm, yeah, you may be on to something there. 😉

Okay. Would you care to clarify the bolded phrases in such a way that they are more than trite, meaningless word salad? And what, exactly, in your opinion are PbtA / "Story Now" games trying to be? Please, enlighten us all, great guru.