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I thought about Aces & Eights, but I thought the Shot Clock system might prove problematic for an online game.

Can you check your link? For some reason Facebook is telling me it is a broken link.

Howdy! This past summer I read Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West. which I enjoyed tremendously. I was thinking for one of my groups that is willing to try new things I would whip up a wild west campaign for them when our Traveller campaign...

Came here to suggest the same thing. It is my selling avenue of first choice, and then, if necessary I go to ebay.

My somewhat limited experience is that there are three basic paths DMs take when bringing together a "strangers" group 1. Using Adventure League rules; 2. Anything goes; or 3. A document with the campaign rules for creating a character.

This is a very practical approach I think is a chance to do the kind of Deliberate Practice the O.P. spoke of - the only thing I would add/suggest is I know what you mean, but perhaps others might benefit from reference to threads that would define some of the terminology you are using...

We will have to agree to disagree on that. I have found WFRP character's far more hardy than 1st level D&D PCs. I have not played Soulbound. I fully accept our play experiences could be vastly different. It was just two examples from the fantasy genre. There are many more. We can just agree to...

You want interaction with your media - post a dubious or even factually wrong statement. People come flying out of the woodwork to correct you.

WFRP and Runequest jump to mind. Those are in roughly the same genre.

Progression then - D&D still has PCs at fairly weak starting power level compared to a lot of other RPGs.

Zero to Hero. Which is a little different than just levels. Lots of games without levels improve PCs as they go.

We know of two thus far: 1. Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse 2. Critical Role: Call From the Neverdeep There will be at least 2 setting books in 2022, as well, but we don't know what they are. Stolen from another thread. credit to Marandahir

Despite the ongoing Covid crisis, 2021 was a pretty good gaming year for me. I just hope I can keep the momentum going in 2022. I'm not seeing a single gaming product coming out that has me fired up. Who know though? Maybe I will get a surprise delight like Witchlight turned out to be for me...

It has been suggested here several times, but getting on the other side of the screen from time-to-time gave me the biggest jumps in my DMing. I very much prefer to run games. I probably did not participate as a player once in ten or fifteen years. However, when 5e came out I made a conscious...

The main reason I do pay attention to rules errata and the like is because I run some Adventure League. Incorporating new interpretations and errata into my game is largely easier. I like running with one set of rules because it is easier. I do have some houserules, but I apply those to my...

Riding a bike - you will be great!

The turning point for me for much longer campaigns was when I ran the Enemy Within campaign in 1986-87. We played it over two years and I have been running longer campaigns ever since. When we played in the 70's and early 80's we almost always stopped playing at level 5. At least when the...

I like books. I can resell books or keep them.

One factor that I think most people are aware of for D&D is tier of play. For some when you reach a given level the game loses it's appeal. Or, in the case of tier four loses support. With fast leveling (like in A.L.) six sessions would take you from 3rd to 9th level. I enjoy all levels of...

I use zoom. We have extra cameras (phones) that we use for miniatures and terrain layout. It is not so much the prep that I find harder. I just find running the game online more exhausting. I guess because I don't get the same energy back from players that I do in my in-person games. The key...