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Dungeon’s and Dragons is kind of reaching the point of being a generic name for fantasy gaming. I see it that way, or perhaps more specifically as combat spelunking if I’m really focussed on the dungeon aspect. There are an embarrassment of riches in the the fantasy RPG space, and some I enjoy...

Anyone familiar enough to know the implications of this?

IIRC Dr Kromm (GURPS line editor) is currently working on a supplement with guidance on how to re-jink the GURPS skills system so there are a smaller number in use. There is a whole series of supplements (Power Ups series) on making more or less extensive changes to the system.

This has been in development for a couple of years, and Douglas makes good stuff. So I will be checking this out.

For the final time: that is a player’s choice to make. The system supports this by actually making it a choice available to them.

The incentive is an automatic crit success for the characters final action. The player decides if that is worth it or not, based on the context. You can argue that it is a poor incentive, you can’t say it doesn’t exist. I think it is a fine incentive personally.

That’s the answer to your question. The player decides, not the rules.

I disagree; if you pick the death option you get to act and that is an automatic critical success. Sounds like an incentive to me. The factor X you are missing here is that Matt made it clear that, if the characters dies, they won’t get a replacement character as it was just a short campaign...

I totally agree with this premise, and think it extends well beyond meeting management. Making plans, adapting to changing circumstances, understanding individual skill sets and capitalising on them. All skills for both GMing and ‘leadership’. My group are pretty demanding when it comes to...

I didn’t say when the backstory is generated… :)

I think you can separate players into two broad groups: those who give their characters backstories for the GM to put story hooks on those who have a blank backstory in case the GM tries to put story hooks on it The former typically see plot twists as a good thing, the later typically want...

Looking at the survey, it seems both mechanics and world are potentially up for changing specifics.

I would suggest those are not core books in WotC’s opinion and so unlikely to ever be reproduced as a 2024-based book.

This being the key part. Until replaced, not ‘forever’. This book is the replacement for all the stuff they think has lasting value.

I doubt their strategy is to encourage people to use old books, if only because they won’t be keeping those in print. So anything key to the setting should be included in the new book. What is considered ‘key’ could vary by person of course..,

Going back to the core premise- you have just minutes to prep a game. Another great thing about Savage Worlds support is that their campaign books have adventure generators in them. For example, we play long sessions on a weekend, and one time I had consumed all my planned materials but we...

I read them in PDF, only open them when it’s time to run them 🙂

SWADE has a lot of support materials available. I have the equivalent of about 5 Kallax cubes of first-party stuff covering a full spectrum of genres… Some of the really useful stuff in this context is archetype cards with lots of pre-made characters, and several bestiaries. Once you have...

Verisimilitude tends to be the word people use. Do the rules plausibly support what is happening in the fiction? That can be both in terms of giving players reasonable options to leverage, and in terms the mechanism generating plausible outcomes. This is where simple HP systems fail if, for...

While the Hero system is a big beastie overall, I did think Combat Skill Levels were a cool and simple flourish. For people unfamiliar, these are in effect a modifier which can be applied to attack, defence, or damage (potentially with limitations on that) and characters can allocate these...