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So here's an example move to Gather Information, from Ironsworn page 62: If a player rolls a strong hit, some information is required to be provided by a source (the GM or other player input) that clearly indicates a path to follow or action to take to make progress. This is a classic case...

I'm . . . on the fence about this one. In Irownsworn---which is a hybrid Powered by the Apocalypse / Forged in the Dark implementation with some of its own unique stuff---there are clear indications that the GM is supposed to follow certain aspects of the game. From page 23-24: From page...

Love Savage Worlds. My go-to system for over 8 years. For certain kinds of campaigns, there's nothing else I'd rather use. The one change I would make to it would be to modify the "rising toughness impenetrability loop" to allow for some form of gradual chipping away rather than waiting for...

Thinking more about it, I wonder if Barbarians of Lemuria / Everywhen might be an option. Look up Cannibal Halfling's review of Everywhen from a couple of years ago.

Unpopular opinion: I prefer rules systems that don't tightly couple rules to a bespoke setting. If the rules aren't flexible enough to be ported with minimal effort outside whatever bespoke setting the author dreamed up, the game is destined to become a resident of the Grand Duchy of Fantasy...

I would also totally agree with this. In my 8+ years of experience running it, Savage Worlds players quickly understand and naturally intuit their character's fictional positioning based on the rules / their character's in-fiction capabilities.

Hmmm, yeah, that's unfortunate. That's nearly exactly opposite of my group's experience. Our experience was tremendously fun and satisfying---satisfying enough that it got a player who in the past 20 years hadn't played anything but WoD and D&D 3.5 / PF1 to actually buy Edge of the Empire...

So you say Savage Worlds is too crunchy ... Would the FFG narrative dice system be too much? Because my group LOVED FFG Star Wars, even going so far as to convert the D&D 3.5 holdover player. The core system + character build options are straight-down-the-line rules medium, while still fun to...

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I spent a couple of years in and around Knoxville, Tennessee a while back, including Knox, Sullivan, and Johnson counties. I'm not a native, but grew to greatly appreciate the people and culture in the area. I have to say, I was looking forward to OGoA, but now seeing how deeply embedded it is...

Kind of. I've sort of reconciled myself to the idea that they probably need to exist in some fashion. Though I've discovered I like Genesys RPG's approach best, which is 2 separate markers for damage (wounds vs. stun), plus a critical hit chart. It seems like it would be slow and futzy to...

I've been thinking for a couple of days now, and I can't come up with a "hill that I would die on" regarding my RPG hobby participation. About the closest I can come is, "The inability to see and recognize multiple sides/styles/modes of play as being valid damages the long term interests of...

Possibly another unpopular opinion --- having just moved to the Pacific Northwest in the past year, Seattle's overall food scene is MASSIVELY underwhelming if you're not into one of the various Asian cultural food traditions or seafood. I can't think of a single non-Asian restaurant I've eaten...

Yes of course, you rang? 😉 Have never owned a game console since the Atari 2600. Though I broke down and bought the kids a Switch a couple of years ago. First game console to inhabit the same dwelling as me since 1983. Though I will admit, I loved playing my uncle's Intellivision back in the...

- The system has to be interesting enough mechanically that I, as GM, will want to commit to its resolution mechanics for many months. - The system ideally must openly declare the intent of play and then deliver on its intent. This determination would generally be based on reviews and reports...

Until I played Ironsworn in the summer of 2021, I probably would have died on that hill with you. Ironsworn vaporizes that notion more thoroughly than a Greater Disjoining Disintegration spell.

How can this be unpopular when it's true? 😉

Out of everything ever posted on this forum, this may be the most personally offensive thing I've ever read. 😜😝🙃

Leah FTW. ;)

600+ hours - Stardew Valley 600+ hours - Nosgoth (this was that weird PvP spinoff in the Legacy of Kain universe that apparently a grand total of 10,000 people ever played . . . but I thought it was super fun) 500+ hours - Baldur's Gate 2 (it doesn't help that I must have restarted this game...