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I got my copy yesterday. So far, I am liking what I see... except I don't like and probably won't use several of the races that made it into the book... at least as PC options. More study needed. But I bought it for the setting info, to possibly use ideas from there to supplement my existing...

All my regular gaming is online. A convention I was going to help out at (ironically because the original person backed out due to fears of coronavirus) was cancelled.

You know, I got Dragon Age and Blue Rose 2nd... and was less than impressed with the mechanics. I've considered adapting Blue Rose to 5th ed... but the things you're describing... they might be just what I needed to fix Blue Rose's system.

I'm in a hotspot. Well... the news says it's a hotspot, but mosly I see it as a fear spot. I, personally, am not affected. All my gaming is online. But my wife and son had to address this in their weekly Starfinder game this week. They decided they were not going to give in to the fear, but they...

On Roll 20, playing Numenera... Player rolls a 1 on a d20. Spends an XP to reroll. Rolls a 1. Next turn.... Player rolls a 1 on a d20. Spends an XP to reroll. Rolls a 1. Next turn Player rolls a 2 on a d20. Spends an XP to reroll. Rolls a 1. 5 1s and a 2 in six consecutive rolls. now...

I like the idea. There's a lot to be said for the way 5e (and maybe 3 and 4, I wouldn't know/don't care) opens up options for everyone: Dwarf Wizard? Elf Barbarian? Half-Orc Bard? Halfling Not-A-Thief? Great! But... there's also something to be said for really embracing the dwarfiness, the...

That cover is the cover on the one that got us started in 1979. I've mentioned before, my dad bought it for my best friend's birthday, and my friend figured we should at least try it. We played it for maybe a year before he got interested in the Advanced and we transitioned to that. And I loved it.

I generally try to find an excuse to have the PC separate. If there's no plausible way, Auto-Pilot, and if there's a significant choice to be made, I generally make it provisional, then ask the player later.

About half a dozen one-shots with a group... I can only remember Dungeon World and Dogs in the Vineyard... Aside from that it was: D&D 5th Numenera My own supers game A little Star Wars And... I can't remember for sure when my Blue Rose game stopped. Might have been the very end of 2018, not...

This is what happened to me trying to run World of Darkness games. "So... uhh... guys.... we've been playing for years and your magi have really influenced the world. The technocracy has been compromised, the nephandi kept at bay, and if ever there was an age where the ascension of mankind was...

Seance & Sensibility! LOL! My daughter will love it!

If I'm running a one-shot, WEG 1e. It's fast, it's simple, it's easy to get into. If I'm running something longer, WEG 2e R&E (or the fan project based on it). More complicated, support for longer term play, still compatible with all the WEG source material. OR, not listed, my own fan...

I agree with this in principle, but in play it's just no fun (for me, or the other players in my experience) to hammer it every scene. That's why I use my rule of not making a thing about it until it's time to make A Thing about it. I don't want to ignore it, but I don't want it to eat up a lot...

Of those, "Assassin." I'm half-tempted to dig out the old 1e AD&D PHB and go through the list of level names...

Back in the early 90s, I left D&D for nothing in particular. I was just not happy with some stuff about it. I meandered about for a while, and ran some supers stuff, but mainly was just looking for the fun again. I landed on Everway, about 95ish. I was, at the time, writing reviews for a little...

I really like Discord. It's a solid platform for voice or text, but the way it lets me set up my own servers and channels is what really sold me. I can keep all my players in contact between games, and even in my game with the three different groups, Discord gives me an easy way to talk to all...

You have inferred incorrectly, and seem to assume I'm a terrible GM since you suggest I do things a terrible GM would do. Though in the second case it is perhaps not an entirely unreasonable inference based on what I said. 1) I said the player "wants a Yuan-Ti Pureblood." As in, she expressed a...

I'm 52 now. I'm white. I started playing in 1979, the day after my best friend's birthday. I was 12. My dad had bought him this present. Dad tried to explain it to me, and I thought it sounded pretty dumb. I wish I could remember the exact words he used, but I came away with the idea that it...

I just went through this Sunday. Running a game where Yuan-Ti have been an issue. Players wants Yuan-Ti Pureblood PC. I told her, "I won't make an issue of the PC race... until I do. But when I do, you'll feel it." She said "Okay!" So, a pureblood Yuan-Ti working in a city post-Yuan-Ti...

Never done it myself, but I see a lot of listings for Paid GMing on Roll20. You might ask there. On the one hand, it'd be cool to be paid for doing a thing I love. On the other, turning a thing I love into a thing I have to do sounds like a great way to fall out of love with it. And I already...