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Dang. I would Heat you, but I’d have to charge.

My clocks all bring the guards to the yard.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a mechanism that puts mechanical pressure on the players to ablate the pressure soon or suffer the consequences. It's not very different from hit points in that regard; you aren't suffering any specific consequence when you're at 30 HP out of 50, except...

I'm not quite sure why the mechanical play of "Set up as many clocks as possible, and finish the job just before any/all of them tick over" wouldn't produce the play you want? Avoiding consequences with a last minute maneuver or knick-of-time save seems to me to be firmly in the "desired...

Agree with all of this. Assuming that, the interesting question to me becomes "What do gods provide, in the context of gameplay, that other sources of faith/divine magic can not?" And the one thing that jumps out to me is personification. If you have gods as gods in your setting, why not make...

To riff on this a bit: The Azathoth Black Hole (Negative Material?) at the center of the galaxy. Surrounding it are the four elemental planes. Within the elemental storm floats Sigil, an eternal station within the rotating elemental storm. Outside of the elemental ring are the shattered...

I mean, Sigil is supposed to the ultimate transitive plane, so I’d expect to see it sandwiched between the Astral and the Elemental singularity region.

First RPG-adjacent purchase, as it was what got me into RPGs later on.

Having it in the MCU gave the show as written two big advantages, creatively, over having it as pure standalone. 1) The concept of superheroes is already understood, and no time has to be wasted establishing what superheroes are or how the world would react to them. 2) The Mandarin...

That isn't really the distinction, though. It's about leaving enough granularity in the system for those interested in the rules as rules to find substance, but not so granular that "vibe" character makers are left way behind. 5e definitely tried to split that difference; it's why so many of...

I see no typos. :)

Beyond the Wall, by Flatland Games, is my favorite example of this in the OSR space. Each player picks a playbook, like Nobleman’s Daughter or Witch’s Apprentice or Devout Acolyte, each with randomized tables to generate a young adult in a shared village ready to go on their first adventure...

Everything varies from person to person; that doesn't mean that bell curves and aggregate values defining a norm aren't useful. :)

Playing or not playing shouldn't impact your friendships, obviously. There shouldn't be any hard feelings or anything. I'm just saying that if I had a situation like your second paragraph, with half-casuals and half-serious, I would look for a game that could split the difference. If there...

I wouldn't do it myself (I like having a lot of options), but I do something similar in that I'll shape the demography of the setting around the races the players pick. Like, when I had 3 players pick half-orc for their race, I made orcs a much more prominent part of the setting, and several...

I don't think post is being made in good faith. Would you care to reframe?

I think a lot of us are coming at this from two very different angles. It seems like for a fair amount of people on this thread, the game comes first. You decide to start a game, and you look for a group of interested people to play with. Your games might last a while, and it's understood...

Generally, childhood amnesia means we have no memories before age 3, and memories from ages 3-5 are rare and generally highly personal. Here in America, I like to divide Gen X and Millennials based on whether they remember the Challenger explosion (January 1986), since most people born in the...

I love both! Just as long as they aren't in a book with pictures. :)