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My favorite recent paladin is Tanjiro Kamado from the Demon Slayer shonen anime. He exemplifies all the best elements of the concept: a true desire to do good, earnest self-sacrifice for others, leadership by example inspiring others to push beyond, and an underlying streak of compassion and...

The idea of "copyright" and intellectual is relatively recent all things considered, evolving relatively shortly after the printing press (but not really protecting authorship and creative works for a little while). However, "morality" was one of its original functions - from a governmental...

I have done a pretty total conversion of the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting to Daggerheart, since I'm having a tremendous time playing "D&D" the vibe/table culture/tropes with Daggerheart the rules: New and tweaked ancestries for 4e Forgotten Realms. A set of theme features for each background...

Neat, maybe I'll check 2e out. I wish there was a free way to peek the rules (is there?).

My mind is of course going to keep going to DH since it's what I'm running a lot of right now, and it has phrases like "collaborate at all times, especially during conflict" and "They’re the opponents of the adversaries you play, but you and the players are on the same side: the side invested in...

Does 13th age have a bounded enough modifier system to do a well controlled Skill Challenge framework? One of the best things about 4e is how you know at each level what an easy/medium/hard level appropriate DC is, but so many other rulesets break the math so that it doesn’t work. 13th age...

Most folks still avidly using forums tend to be Gen X across all the ones i participate in, with a distribution that curves into older and down middle millennial. The younger you get, the more likely Reddit / Discord / etc is to be primary and they fall into the small tail of the forum use curve.

I'm not sure if historical context has been lost per se, the fact that there has been a host of successor games leaning very hard into the Combat as Sport design ethos (Lancer et al, Draw Steel! recently, various other smaller offshoots) where each combat is intended to be a fun exciting...

True "Combat as Sport" intentionally designed games are generally extremely anti-GM putting thumb on scale. If the GM is tweaking the play of the game, it invalidates all the work the players did when it came to character builds/choices/tactical decisions. Their rules tend towards being...

If nobody else has mentioned it, V. Baker's "OSR" game draft takes exactly this approach.

Given that I'm running uh, a lot of Daggerheart right now, this is an interesting viewpoint to think through for me. I literally just shifted a Draw Steel! game over to DH because that level of high-prep, rules and time heavy combat-as-sport/game just wasn't doing it for me. I'll contrast my...

The looong well reasoned and technically adept discussion from the US Copyright Office backing up what they consider to be "human created" vs not for evaluation of copyright was linked earlier in this thread. SCOTUS declined to take up a challenge to it. Until / unless new laws are enacted...

Given your very brief description of the party makeup There's 4 (?) major resources you need to stretch, right? Spell slots. Per rest abilities (short and long) HP & HD Magic items (this is the ?) For the first, you probably want enemies that demand rapid overwhelming response from the party...

My boss at work routinely tells me to make PowerPoints with a bunch of data on it. Sometimes he gives me tweaks after the first draft. When he presents them or claims stuff on his performance, he talks about “his staff prepared” or “under my direction we did” and not “I made this PowerPoint.”...

ok if we're bringing AO3 into this...

One of my biggest struggles with GMing games is trying to get the incredibly well formed image of what's happening in teh fiction right this instant I have playing out verbally conveyed. Yet somehow, when I work with a real artist I can give them a general gist of what I'm looking for and in a...

There's a lot of advice out there from actual authors about writing, most of it tends to start with "just start writing."

I’m curious what the bundle pricing will look like. If it’s like $20 for additional licenses, I paid more then that total to support my table in a year of Roll20 D&D play and got a product that was endlessly frustrating.

YMMV, but I ran a WOTC campaign for a group that had played BG3 & were all “Critters” and wanted to play a D&D game for the first time. Most of them wanted to say cool stuff and I sometimes had to figure out exactly what skill they were trying to get to! Even just “I take a look around the room...

I've had players buy me roll20 subscription time; most of my Daggerheart players across (2) groups had bought the book before we started playing (significantly more $!) including some with Collectors Editions; folks have offered to defray costs across a wide variety of outlays I've done. For...