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It has been out for a while now, so i am curious how folks' ToV campaigns are going. What kind of game/campaign are you playing? How do the new rules compare to vanilla 5E? Have you incorporated any non-ToV rules in, either from Kobold, WotC or otherwise?

I am at RPG Con in Mildord Mass, running 4 sessions of of high (17th) level D&D 2024 epic fights. I playtested a couple times and each one, the damage power output of the PCs was just unbelievable, and even CR 25 Legendary creatures with minions died in less than 2 rounds. So for the actual...

This question is not about how fantastical you like your PCs, or your villains, or your dungeons. Rather, it is about how fantastical you like your broader world -- the big backdrop of your fantastical adventures. Do you want the world to feel very real and grounded and possibly even...

NOTE: This is a D&D question because a lot of games make the question moot: they have built in systems for treating a combat as another sort of gameplay element (like Dramatic Tasks or Quick Combats in Savage Worlds). So, the 7th level party is traveling through the Goblin Forest and encounters...

FYI for those who backed this project (which looks super cool).

This came up in another thread and i thought it would be interesting to discuss on its own. How do you feel about short campaigns. Not one shots, or single adventures that might take a couple sessions, but actual campaigns (whatever that means to you) that run for a finite period of time of...

We often lament that some show we loved got concelled to early. But what television show went on too long? What show, in your opinion, should have ended after a single season? The obvious low hanging fruit is Heroes. It was really great (until that "final battle." But after S1, it went downhill...

If you were (or are!) publishing a small RPG and wanted it to be Open, and assuming ti was not based on or otherwise utilizing a system already under some Open license, which Open format would you choose, and why?

Ever since D&D was first packaged in that little brown box, TTRPGs have evolved in both form and function, as well as what tools folks have on hand to facilitate play. There is no reason to believe that will not continue, especially given that we now have lots of tools (VTTs, for example) that...

I was scrolling through my FB feed and in the Shadowdark group some asked whether Western Reaches would come with a calendar with holidays and all. This got em thinking about the sorts of mundane details that people often find important and/or satisfying in world building. Note: when I say...

Rather than necro my old thread on the topic (mostly because I could not find it with a search), I wanted bring back the general discussion on what game systems to choose for certain ideas. I tend to run a lot of different kinds of ideas and games, becasue when I run at cons I do self contained...

I keep seeing people post about how they are so very unhappy with the 2024 rule changes, or with Tasha's rule changes, or whatever. I just can't really summon up enough GAS to be particularly upset. And I realized that has pretty much always been true for me. I didn't and don't care about...

Spinning out of the "best superhero movie" thread so that one can get back on topic, this thread is about defining what a superhero is, and what the superhero genre is. What makes a superhero a superhero in different media, and what sorts of stories are "superhero stories." This debate grew out...

I mostly listen to non-fiction and history (my most recents are Book and Dagger, Everything is Tuberculosis and Everything must Go) and when I listen to fiction it is usually space opera and some Stephen King or Joe Hill. But I do love a good epic fantasy. Most recently I listened to the...

RPGs usually exist in the same space as genre fiction, and genre fiction lives in this space between tried and true tropes, and innovative ideas. So, when it comes to RPGs -- from your personal campaigns to published games/materials -- how much do you care about that relationship? Do you want...

I have not really been keeping up with the end of the SF1E adventures and such. What is the status of the setting for 2E? What has changed since 1E? Thanks.

A friend of mine shared this blog post with me and I though it would make for an interesting topic here. I don't really buy the core of the argument that all you have to do to make binary results interesting is to add more rolls. That makes things tedious. In the drive, shoot and resist psychic...

Note: I DO NOT MEAN POLITICAL CONSERVATISM. This is not a thread about politics. I mean "conservatism" as in resistance to change. You see it all the time -- people complaining about the new art or aesthetics, literally saying things like "if they used the old art I would be in." It is so mind...

ETA: here is one of the articles that came out earlier this year indicating a "Universe Beyond" style push for D&D. April 1 jokes aside, they announced not too long ago that they are aiming to do with 5E what they have been doing with M:tG -- have crossovers with other licensed IP. I don't...