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ICON by the creator of Lancer. Several playtest versions have been out for a while, but it is supposedly releasing in 2023 from what I last read. ICON playtest by Massif Press

Rules are not necessary, but rules are important. The systems and mechanics designed for a game create game dynamics that would be hard to recreate without them. Five people can sit down and agree to free roleplay a one-shot where they're cursed and are slowly deprecating and have to complete an...

I think lore is incredibly underrated. I think some people think of lore as that superficial worldbuilding that the stereotypical failed novelist shoves into his campaign. It can be that, but it's also much more. If your players are moving around adventuring, and they eventually go through a...

Thank you. It's on my to-do list for this week! :)

So, Mastodon is separated in servers? How does that work?

What are most fantasy settings? And what's specifically British about them?

That's a lot of writing!

I can't fathom how someone could rank all eight of these services. Are you subscribing to all of them? How much time to you have to watch shows? I've been subscribed to Netflix for many years, and the number one reason I'm not subscribing to others is lack of time (not that I'm necessarily a...

Not myself (that I can remember) but I got two stories to share. A short one and a long one. Neither happened to me. Grandmother's story I learned some years ago that my grandmother had a gift. My mom said "Your grandmother could arrêter le feu. (stop the fire" What she meant by that is that...

I think it will create a divide. I know I am not going to buy the new books, not because of their content but just because I already own so many 5E books and I have no interest in a some update of the rules. Anyway, I really doubt the new edition will be as compatible as they claim it will be...

I did a short one-shot of 2400 a little while ago. And the rules specified to always communicate to the players if there's any risk of injury or death in a roll and was very clear that if it wasn't explicitly stated before the roll, then it can't happen. I thought that was interesting. I don't...

I actually never have! I would have. But most of the time it's been recommended to me, it's been done in a zealous way that threw me off. But I do own Blades in the Dark, which if I'm right, is kind of a cousin of PbtA games?

I will definitely read this. Thank you. I intend to turn it into a product. At first I was aiming for a smaller version for ZineQuest in february, but I don't think that leaves me enough time to test it.

That's one of my guiding principle at work, and what I'm trying to apply here. But as I mentioned, it's harder for me to fully grasp how the different options for resolution system affect the experience. But I've got some good input from this thread so far. That's something I'm exploring right...

Alright, many good replies. Many questions, some to which I don't have answers. Without going to much in the details, here's the pitch for what I'm working on.

I'm not going to focus on the attack sequence, but you're describing exactly my thought process. I'm focusing on the situations and fantasies I want to create and I'm trying to give myself design space. One example is that I want to gravitate towards a style of play where rolls are quite...

Hi! I have no idea if this is the kind of topic that's allowed on ENWorld, but as there's many folks here with publishing and design experience, I figure I might ask. Short background, I work as a game designer in the videogame industry. I'm pretty confident in my abilities and methods in that...

Interesting. I've played Forbidden Lands, but not Alien. But I've heard a ton of great reviews for Alien and its cinematic style. But the way you're describing the agenda cards, I have a feeling it leads to very different experiences from table to table; its very tied to your table dynamic.

Six to eight encounters does not mean all combat encounters. The balance between the PCs blazing through an encounter and having a near-TPK is very precarious in 5E. The 6-8 encounters a day suggestion is because the safest way to challenge your players is to nibble at their ressources (hit...

Not to that degree. But I had a similar feeling a few times. Can't say it's a solution for every instance of the problem, but once I actually used what I had prepared and turned it into the backdrop and lore of the world. So all the cool stuff I had planned became events that happened a few...