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Tabletop Audio has been my go to for several years now. I can't speak about it more highly. We switched out to a Starfinder campaign (we're back to 5e tonight LOL--I'll let you guess why) and Tabletop was great for science fiction, too. Interesting that it should be mentioned today--I had...

I really like this turn of phrase. It's much better than roll playing vs. role playing. Thanks for the post!

So, I've come to a friendly environment to raise a question that's been bugging me for a while, and now that I'm working up a new adventure to DM for our group, the question is at the fore of my mind. Mainly, just what the subject line says: how do I make racial choices matter for my players...

I've said for years--well, at least to my gaming group--that level increases are an illusion. My AC increases, Monster BAB increases. My BAB increases, Monster AC increases. My skill levels increase, DCs increase. It's all a wash. I've also wondered for years what a game would be like in which...

"These early access printed copies are limited to Gen Con only, but will be available as a downloadable PDF sometime after the convention." Well, ahem, it's after Gen Con. Any news about the PDF??

Trying to talk my group into playing Coriolis this Friday night. Fingers crossed.

Thank you for the info! i didn't mean to rain on the Alternity roll out parade--don't want to be one of those guys :erm: I'm still very interested to see what your team has come up with--but I admit, like I said, my heart sank just a bit at the hint of legacy mechanic. But, we've just been...

You're right in that I've never actually read a designer say they took inspiration from the Alternity mechanic, but it's obvious that it's one of if not THE first to take into account the difficulty of the task, and adjust the "target" accordingly. Accept, it adjusts the target through the dice...

Well, I was VERY excited when I heard about Alternity's return, but I have to say my heart sank when I read "Security -d4" and "-2 steps on attack rolls." Alternity's original system was genius -at that time- and an obvious precursor to the d20/Difficulty Class system we have now. But, it was a...

Weird he'd use the phrase "politically correct" when referring to an aspect of a game that has a spell called "Yassa Massa." That's kind of tone deaf.

Been looking for a good 5E-based science fiction game and recently picked up 5E compatible Amethyst. If you've not checked it out, it's an awesome and beautiful piece of work, with a great setting and new, futuristic classes. Which brings me to the point.The Amethyst setting is fabulous: a world...

You had me at Dodge Challenger!

For years now I've wanted an "empty" video game that I could run my players through: think, Skyrim without the monster encounters. The players would right there in a beautiful, graphic world that would take the place of a paper map or virtual desktop. If "this" is like "that," it will be...

I've been more than hyped since the announcement and fell in love with packet 1. Since then, it's sort of been downhill. I'm pretty much open, and will buy just because it's D&D--but will my group play it? We're actually really digging 13th Age and Numenera right now. But, I do have ONE deal...

Having spent most of my years playing AD&D, I have a bias against skills. We did just fine with the DM judging the relative difficulty of a task based on class, character specific experience (Oh, yeah, Homer the fighter has fought liches before, so he would know something about this...

Heartening advice, Dragonblade! Glad to hear your running 13th Age more like D&D is working out. I'm sure we will be "adjusting" 13th Age as we go along till we find our own sweet spot. One thing that's surprised us, I think, is how different a game that more or less runs on a D&D chassis can...

Hey, thanks for the feedback. this all sounds great, but here are the problems I'm seeing, or at least that don't make any sense to me. First, and I'm not trying to be a wise-guy, but having a structure--isn't that called having an adventure ready? Trying not to sound too full of myself, but...

I ran our first 13th Age Friday night, and thought I’d do a write up in case anyone is interested. I’m actually adapting Caves of Chaos from DND Next for the adventure—we’d been playtesting since packet 1, but a lot of players in our group didn’t care for the last packet, and we were getting...

I'm prepping to DM our first session of 13th Age, and we're loving creating the characters, the rules we're reading, etc. But the Icons are giving me fits, lol. Disclaimer (I guess): we're overlaying the Icons onto our existing game world, which is actually working out to be not so bad, as...

Do we see the winner of the character sheet contest on the table? Or is that old news?