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Played D&D almost exclusively from 1980 till maybe 2010 or thereabouts. My primary campaign nowadays is in Torchbearer, but the current circulation of frequent players include Fall of Magic, City of Winter, Blades in the Dark, Band of Blades, The Quiet Year, Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast, Dread...

I just meant in as much as "We robbed a tomb and the GM made us track how many rations we had left." People always recount dramatic instances from their D&D games, but that drama (as you know) is part of the retelling, not part of the mechanics like it is in TB.

First and foremost: because other games exist. That's like asking why I eat steak when apples exists. Beyond that, in my particular world, I hit the point where I was spending more time wrestling D&D into the game that I wanted and there were other games that met my needs without me having to...

Wanderhome: The Night Market She turned down fey deal.

Throw me in on the Torchbearer train as well. It's been my system of choice since the pandemic.

I'm going to lump the various D&Ds into one pile because we played them interchangeably (and incorrecetly). After that however, I was buying a lot of rpgs and just theorycrafting with my friends about all of the games we were GOING to run. It was all mostly Palladium. Palladium Fantasy...

Do you like turtles?

SPOILERS AHEAD! GAME TWO: THE DISCUSSION The second game was NOT bad. [I change my mind. Now that I've revisited the entire story, I realize that there were interesting pieces, but that overall it was pretty freaking painful.] It just suffered from having a mix of playstyles that I and (I...

For the first time in a LONG time, I was actually free on Free RPG Day and decided to dig into my bag of tricks and bring something I was figuring few if any of the people there had ever seen before. I had picked up a copy of Fall of Magic after falling in love with a different game from the...

I'm sad that the game didn't click for you. All of the times that I've played it, even when the atmosphere was light, the background stress of the listing tower short circuited perfectly into fear for us. Not like heart pounding "I'm in the dark in an abandoned rotting warehouse and the...

Yeah, I'm not typically a dice guy, but those Dispel dice are freaking beautiful.

You've never heard that nickname before? "misery simulator" torchbearer - Google Search

Misery. Simulator. :D

These are amazing. I'm glad that I've managed to be a good influence on someone out there. Typically I usually only get mentioned like this when someone's looking for bail money.

They can't stop rolling successes...

I am SO freaking bummed that I no longer have these trades, I was an idiot for gifting them away. I'm not even friends with the person anymore...

Time Zones can be confusing. Explanation: First session with new players from Australia. All geared up to play at 4 PM Eastern time, which we all knew was 7 AM Australian Eastern Time. Unfortunately, Australia is a day ahead, not a day behind, and in our confusion we used words like "today"...

With regards to player death, I've also had a few TPKs, and they almost always fall to new players (myself included) having to break themselves out of the idea that RPG problems need to be solved by killing something. Once the players recognize the other buttons and levers available to them, it...

What I have been having a BLAST doing, is using Mordite Press' "Vagrant's Guide to Surviving the Wild" and using it to populate the empty areas of my map. I've modified thing minusculely but the framework they have is awesome. Essentially what it does is turns overland travel into a Conflict...

Deep meaningful conversations about how the walls of the hallway might have been made and where the stone would have come from. An exciting discussion about a tub of butter and the crestfallen despair when the halfling rolls poorly and discovers that it's gone rancid. A quick aside which turns...