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So Innerdude finally gets to try a Forged in the Dark game for the very first time with his group (HOORAY! AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING! 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳). I've got a Court of Blades campaign starting up this Thursday and I'm incredibly excited to try it out. But I have a few questions after absorbing...

I don't know what possessed me, but four weeks ago on a total whim I re-downloaded Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 Enhanced Editions from GOG. I'm pretty sure at this point in my life I've bought both of those games at least 3 times now---the original CD-ROM versions (BG1 in '98, BG2 in '00), the GOG.com...

So why is Innerdude even sharing this? I've stated several times on this board that I played and GM'd Savage Worlds for a long time (8+ years) as my primary, go to system. But I ultimately came to the conclusion that I simply didn't like the way high parry + high toughness battles played out...

So I had an interesting conversation with one of my players immediately following last week's gaming session. We're currently in the heart of an FFG Star Wars / Genesys system campaign using Edge of the Empire. The player in question has a long, long history of RPG play but almost exclusively...

So . . . I was just messing around in my Gog.com profile. I saw that they have the 2000 game Rune: Classic on sale for $2 and thought, "Hey, I really liked that game. It was pretty good for being Unreal Engine V1 back in the day; I should buy it." But then remembered, "I think I bought it on...

** WARNING: This post may contain spoilers for the Star Wars: Jedi Survivor video game. ** Two nights ago I reached the narrative climax / end of Jedi Survivor. I'll do my best not to give away too much about the final "boss" battle, but be warned that some spoilers may slip through. If it's...

Very simple question - if I purchase the pdf pre-order from Backerkit, do I get access to the current beta material right away?

I just stumbled across this in my Firefox "Pocket Articles" feed . . . and just . . . wow. My mind is now churning at 7,000 RPM. https://www.vulture.com/article/the-last-of-us-is-not-a-video-game-adaptation.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab What a fascinating, engrossing analysis of the true...

A thought about what's different now than the last contentious D&D edition changeover in 2007-2008, and it comes down to this --- the external network realities around the D&D game are radically, massively different. One, the main pain point of a D&D edition change is the risk of change to your...

Let's say you wake up this morning in possession of a magic djinni lamp, and the djinn has but one wish to give. However, the power of the wish is limited to just your own personal roleplaying experience. Our djinn can't make you rich or a rock star, but can grant you the opportunity to play...

Some of you may know how big a fan I am of Ironsworn. Just wanted to give a shoutout that the PDF of Starforged landed on DriveThru. I've already played 2 sessions of it (a friend of mine backed the KS), and it's without a doubt an improvement on Ironsworn, which was already fantastic. The...

I've mentioned a few times on this board that I've never had an affinity for the White Wolf / Storyteller systems. Even though I was a teenager in the '90s, for whatever reason the general zeitgeist of Vampire: the Masquerade passed me by. I've tried looking through some of the more recent...

I've been thinking lately about how much "crunch" I actually want in my games. I've only recently embarked on GM-ing FFG Star Wars, which is by all accounts a "medium crunch" system. Generally I'd agree with that statement, as so far it seems to be a bit lighter than Savage Worlds, but certainly...

I had an interesting experience a few weeks ago. We were building level 5 characters for a very, very short 5e, 3-session mini-adventure. And I'm not sure what happened, but I somehow stumbled on a really interesting character concept and personality that resonated with me. I ended up playing...

So after a sharp right into PbtA GM-ing with Ironsworn this year, I'm going to be running an FFG Star Wars game starting in January. And I'm actually a bit nervous about it, because I haven't flexed those GM muscles in a while. In the "Apocalypse World" thread from earlier this year, I brought...

So I backed the Court of Blades kickstarter a few months ago, and only now just started digging into the "preview" PDF. Everything I've read so far has been tremendously compelling, and very much in line with what I hoped it would be when I backed it. The "preview" is a 90-95% complete set of...

So this thread is inspired by a particular system I picked up in the last year, and am totally enthralled with most of the core mechanics, but find myself baffled around some of the design decisions and the implied setting. The system in question: Spellbound Kingdoms The reasons I love the...

So in the "What is the point of GM's notes?" thread, several posters brought up that one of the highest priorities for sandbox-style play is to experience a "living world," but to only do so through the viewpoint of the character. In almost every case this was described as only being properly...

Back in 2014 when 5e was released, the 50-year anniversary was still a decade away. Well in the blink of an eye, it seems, 7 years have passed and we're now less than 3 years from 2024. So just like the subject line says, if you're in charge of Hasbro/WotC marketing, what do you do to mark...

So we're trying out Ironsworn with my main play group tonight for the first time. 2 of the 5 players have previous, if limited experience with PbtA from our Dungeon World experiment a couple of years ago. What are some notes, tips, play details you think would be useful for the players to...