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I know, every campaign is different. But, broadly speaking and talking about your personal preferences (so don't @ me with "should" nonsense) do you think the player characters should be exceptional in fiction of the game? Maybe that means Chosen By Fate, or maybe that means somehow superhuman...

This might be a little bit of a weird question, so bear with me. If you had to compare your preferred way of running or playing in a campaign to a format found in other media, what would it be? For example, mine is 90s-00s ensemble television semi-serial action adventure drama a la Buffy or...

That subject line is a little incendiary, but anway. Last night the PCs (5 4th level 5E2024 characters) went into a young black dragon's lair to kill it. The dragon also had an allied abomination (using the stats for a half dragon in the MM). This was, per the A5E chart (which has been pretty...

I wanted to spin this out of the Daggerheart + thread just to stop gumming up the works for @overgeeked and besides, more games than Daggerheart use this sort of system. So: When the game does not ask for "initiative order" and players and GMs are meant to share and pass the spotlight, how do...

Do you enjoy minimalist and/or one page RPGs? Do you have a favorite or two? What do you think of the concept in general? Lasers and Feelings gets lots of love, and for good reason. It implies a lot and if you have a table that is really dedicated to the idea I am sure you could have lots of...

I received an update re: Draw Steel (even though I did not actually back it; weird). In addition to cover art sneak peeks, it indicated PDFs will be released on July 17th, with printing to likely follow in August.

I think it is worth starting a Daggerheart thread that is less about people's excitement (or lack thereof) and plans, but rather actually reading the book (and cards and additional materials) and discussing it specifically in context of the text. I don't want to do this as a rigid thing though...

What video games do you wish someone would make? It could be anything, from a certain licensed video game to a remke or sequel to a much beloved classic to just a concept you have never seen before. And maybe, if you share it in this thread, someone will point you to a similar game that...

I don't want to derail the official announcement thread but I am very curious: For those that are not happy with the "psionicist as spellcaster" paradigm, what is it that you actually want to see? Why? And as a secondary consideration: is it just psionics that you want to be different? How...

The discussion of Daggerheart and Hope and Fear got me thinking: D&D sort of has a unofficial "narrative mechanic" in the way that many tables deal with 1 and 20 results on the d20 when rolling for checks. This is especially visible in memes online, of course (Bards seducing liches on a nat 20...

This is a non scientific poll.

It seems like a lot of folks are on the fence about looking into Daggerheart. This is a link to the SRD so those folks can check out the rules without dropping $$$ for the PDF sight unseen. Thanks Darrington for making this accessible!

Daggerheart is out! I am curious what folks are planning to do with DH at this stage. Are you going to run a oneshot to test the system? Start a campaign? Continue a playtest campaign? Are you going to use one of the campaign frame, or build your own? Are you going to adapt a campaign or...

This is a non-scientific poll.

I am starting to design a focused game intended to be compatible with Shadowdark, but only in the sense that you should be able to use Shadowdark adventures with it. As part of that design, I am thinking about what I want to do with player character archetypes. I may not want classes at all...

As player or as GM, what aspects or elements of the activity of engaging in a roleplaying game do you, personally, need the system to support or do with mechanics and rules? What parts of play do you NOT need the system to do, or actively do not want the system involved in? What game systems are...

I was thinking about the idea that games with long lists of game elements, from feats to magic items to gun, etc.., might actually serve to trap players and GMs more than shorter and more vague lists. I feel like if (for example) a fantasy game says that the world is full of weird and wonderful...

Rules: No gaming answers of any kind. No video games. No board games. No Sunday crossword. Nada. What are your hobbies and interests outside of various forms of gaming? When and how did you find yourself interested in that? If you can, describe the joy it brings you. I write fiction. I want it...

ETA: Folks can respond how they want, of course. I'm not a cop. That said, the intent of the thread isn't really to give folks a venue to talk about how little they'd care. The intent was to attempt to imagine what it would actually look like. One of the things that is said a lot with regards...

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?