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I've been ‎thinking a great deal about the political organization of Feywild civilization in my intended game, in the interests of getting a ‎narrative grasp on the motivation behind the war. And I'm not a fan of the standard "seelie vs unseelie" divide, because binary monothic power-blocks of...

I read though that module you recommended, and (leaving aside the edition-based differences in how combat statblocks are constructed) I'm really struck by how elegant the Victory Points system is for modeling the effects of the heroes' actions upon the mass-battle scenario playing out around...

First, let me thank you all for being so helpful. As I said in my original post, I'm feeling a need for villains rather than monsters, so the various underdark races (drow, illithid, kuo-toa, aboleths, yuan-ti, etcetera) don't really fit with what I have in mind... I want villains who need to...

I've been thinking about running D&D again, at my local gaming store. But my work schedule is 12hr shifts on a two-week cycle, so I'd only be able to run it every other week. I therefore need a campaign premise which allows for the inevitable random attendance by players who make other plans...

I finished re-reading all the rules chapters of both the Dresden Files RPG corebook and the "Paranet Papers" supplement (setting chapters still to be re-read), and put together a draft of the questionnaire which I'd ask prospective players to answer for my game. Both because it will give me...

Please bear in mind that I am by no means an expert in the history of D&D, but I imagine that several people on this forum must be far more knowledgeable than I am. I know that in 1982 one overwrought conspiracy theory blamed the game itself for one gamer's suicide, and RPGs in general (among...

Another night of work, and more pondering... I think that I have my Fort Adolphus campaign's opening scene pretty well figured out. I'd start out of course with the discussion of power levels and initial character concepts (more towards Types & Templates than High Concepts at that stage), then...

As I've been working tonight, I've done a lot of thinking about the various "supernatural nations" of The Dresden Files and how they'd fit into my Fort Adolphus (Gotham City) backdrop. Bear in mind, all of this is just my gut impressions without any input from the eventual players, and will...

My fear is that I could get one player who (like myself) can recognize at a glance either a Jim Aparo or a Norm Breyfogle drawing of Batman, one player who only knows the Schumacher version, and one who only knows the Adam West version. Without a common frame of reference, I fear I'll be right...

Well, I'm entirely willing to run games online, using Roll20 on my desktop for the character sheets and playspace and dice mechanics, while running Google Hangouts on my laptop for voice conferencing.  So, if you're interested, message me privately, and I'll gladly email you the PDF of "Night...

‎In my mind, the process for City Creation is the most interesting part of the Dresden Files RPG. Assuming the players are willing to invest more cognitive effort than "I rolled the dice, did I win yet?", it ensures that everyone starts the game on the same page, and irons out any conflicting...

Let me start off by saying that I know I'm crazy. But I'm wondering how far over the deep end I'm sitting here. I have always been strictly a narrative gamer, with the quality of the story being my foremost concern as either a player or GM. And after my D&D: Curse of Strahd game imploded due...

No need to apologize for having those "brevity" skills which I admit that I lack.  And you are correct that my interpretation does diverge pretty far from canon; but when canon overlooks the prospect that a super-genius intellect (with a proven talent for creative genetics including retroviral...

Allow me to further illustrate what I mean by not-villains. Let's assume for a moment that not only do the Tyranids have a motivation beyond "the us am hungry, the us need food", but furthermore let's assume the motivation is heroic. Crazy, I know. But hear me out. Something has drawn them...

FAIR WARNING: I HAVE NO SKILL AT BREVITY I have a game I'd like to be able to run, but first I would need to write the rules for it. I'm already decently familiar with the various RPGs in Fantasy Flight Games's now-defunct 40K RP line, but the specific focus I have in mind falls between the...

As I work an overnight shift, I had a crazy idea about the issue of Dex-hogs with finesse weapons becoming overpowered by gaining extra actions of nearly equal impact compared to a standard low-Dex swordsman. Why not just remove the DexMod bonus to damage (but retain bonus to hit)? More...

I am an amateur writer, and there's one particular story in my head that I'm trying to get out onto the page. But it's hugely complicated. And I seek help. The backdrop is a Renaissance-fantasy sort of superhero setting, with the classic Musketeers imagery providing the goonsquad mooks, while...

I'm not having any luck making sense of the Mention function, so please forgive the no-web-savvy formatting here... Blue, I have not yet had an opportunity to play any games in 5th edition, while my main experience of 4th edition was thinking (as a big fan of the original DragonLance setting...

I'd thought about applying DexMod to the incrementation on each tick, but it just seemed wrong for DexMod to have the capacity to completely eclipse the impact of the die roll. I should point out that I come from a tradition of superhero gaming (moreso than D&D), and in my head it should be a...

As I work to get ready to run D&D again after several years away from the game, I find myself wanting to replace the game's entire initiative mechanic, for three reasons: ***1.) In my experience, players have always found it all too easy to get bored when they're waiting around for their next...