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And to again beat my personal drum for a Birthright pitch, make a Birthright setting that is wholly focused on "High Level Play." Like, character generation is lvl 10+. Having it just be another generic western fantasy setting where people play sovereigns isn't going to be enough.

So the issue with a new setting is threading the needle of having it be different enough to be distinct but broad enough to have enough appeal to sell. Smaller publishers don't have to sell thousands upon thousands of copies to consider an effort worth trying. I would love something out of left...

Fond, vague memories of the Spellfire novel makes me have a soft spot for this one for sure. Hoping it gets a bit more of a tweak or two.

A pedantic argument. It's easy enough to recognize that those in favor of AI material generation are eager to muddy the waters of the term.

Zero. AI generated content is corrosive to human culture and achievement.

Good. No organization that gives awards based on achievement should permit AI use.

I'm a fan of 7th. I like the degrees of success/difficulty used. Advantage/disadvantage. Pushing rolls. All good. But the real winner for me is the wealth of solid setting books across time and geography. Western. Dark Ages. A slew of stuff in the traditional 1920s-30s. Weimar Berlin. Gaslight...

Minor gripes being the order of the day... The Minotaur Skeleton description describes them using great axes. Statbock just gives them a slam. I think this was the case with the 2014 ed also. But just irks me irrationally.

Curious to hear more. The formatting of the title makes me feel like there will be more in the series.

For me, the only way this would work is if non-pc species don't have intellect. It is limiting, but creativity can be born out of limitations.

That is a touch disappointing in some respects, but it is what it is. Will reserve judgement to seeing some stats. I stand by my appreciation for the design visually.

Gotta say, I quite like the succubi/incubi design. Sexy/sensual without being titillating. A hard task I am sure.

Look, often the most basic of thumbnail math of a challenge is simple. How often will the PCs hit/effect the challenge? 50% of the time? Less or More? How many successful actions will it take to overcome the challenge? Multiply then divide by the number of PCs. Thats how many rounds very roughly...

GM skills dont manifest from the head of Zeus unbidden. They need to be nurtured by the game itself. Poor game design is design that assumes GMs will intuit how to make things work instead of showing them how they can work. But a GM agnostic skill can be signaling to players that PCs are in...

Possibly. Or by finding non-combat solutions to overcome an obstacle. Or it can be simply tabling dealing with a threat until the group has a better shot at winning.

Calibration is still a needed element even in games that allow for unwinnable scenarios, else how can the players recognize the scenario is unwinnable prior to the tpk?

Expanding out a bit, what matters more is clear encounter design guidelines with examples. Give a sense of scale. How hard will a given challenge be for a give caliber of PCs?

A guard jamming their pike into a PCs guts interrupts their agency. A ravine being too far to jump across interrupts their agency. If your game has social or mental systems use them. If a player elects to have poor stats for said interactions, knowing that skills using them will come up, they...

Some psychotic posts here. Muscular Neutrality is the "Some good people on both sides" of DnD. It's a relic of some really wrong thinking navel gazing nonsense from people achingly entrenched in privilege. "Oh oh. Too much joy in the world. Need to up the suffering index." "I mean, there is...

It was, imho, the best use of the Storyteller system that White Wolf ever produced.