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I’ve been thinking about setting books that are either genuinely free of mechanics, or close as darn it. Favorites of mine include things like the systemless version of Freeport, a bunch of the Glorantha books for HeroQuest, and settings for Amber and Lords Of Gossamer & Shadow. My experience...

I’ve been reading Into The Wyrd & Wild and Into The Cess & Citadel, and having a great time. The setting generation part of each calls for some drop table action. And that’s a problem: I don’t like the noise and am far too prone to having dice go where they shouldn’t. Does anyone know of...

Plain people of the Internet, I come to you once more. Have you played Savage Worlds using Realms of Cthulhu, as either player or GM? If you have, was it fun? Did it add enjoyable things that you wouldn’t have had with just the core rules? I’m looking here at this mound of Call of Cthulhu...

Let me define my terms. :) By “no combat” I mean a campaign where we never use any combat-specific mechanics. There may well be chases and sneaking and races against the clock, and lots of social interactions, and all of that. We might import the battle of the bands mechanics from the Fate Core...

It just occurred to me that I don’t remember seeing much/any discussion of leveling with milestones in B/X or AD&D, or in OSE and such. This is absolutely not an assertion that nobody’s done it, just me noting that I personally either missed it or forgot it. How many people have done this in...

I don’t like Vancian magic. Never have - it’s just not something I want a part of my fantasies. I also don’t like spell point systems that end up giving you essentially the same outcome in spells per day. And it occurs to me that I have no idea what the 5e world is like these days when it comes...

Even those of us who prefer not to use most of the mechanics of the D&D extended family of games - classes, levels, Vancian magic in all its forms (including spell points), etc etc - may sometimes get a hankering for some D&D-ish adventure. A favorite setting, an interesting-looking dungeon, a...

If I were wanting to focus on one (1) D&D edition’s version of Eberron, which would you recommend? Please explain why, too - this isn’t just a simple popularity poll, but me hoping for discussion that will bring up factors I like or don’t. Thanks!

I’ve been reading some more lately about roleplaying in Free Kriegsspiel (FKR) ways, there’s a lot I like. World-centric play with minimal rules and high trust is good for Bruces. But one of the things I like a whole lot in rolegaming is characters doing magic, and that can be tricky. I know how...

Every so often I think that I’d like to take the Realms and see how they go under other mechanics, like Mörk Borg Ironsworn plus fan supplements or QuestWorlds or “bare” Mythic Game Master Emulator (2e) or something. I have or have access to the first, second, third, and fourth editions. Which...