Search results

4e fighters. They have a clear focus about what they do, they're good at that thing, they have interesting decisions to make about how and when they do that thing, and they are genuinely fun and challenging to play.

Agreed. They should have had it as only ever a GM-assigned modifier to the circumstances of that roll. That is to say, no published skills, feats, spells, or class abilities should grant it. Maybe Aid Another would use it. I seem to remember some of the playtests were close to this, and also...

Although 2014 also featured Monte Cook's freshly invented idea of passive perception ;)

2014's main advances AFAIR were advantage/disadvantage and the pseudo-narrative background traits, the latter of which they got rid of.

No, I think it's a good point. Most social situations or exploration scenes aren't run in an initiative sequence. Personally when I GM a more free-flowing game that doesn't have initiative, I effectively become the director of the action. I might ask the players to give a loose statement of...

So, let's say I write an RPG in my spare time and it's perfect. Everyone that reads it wants to play it and everyone that plays it stops wanting to play anything else. I release it anonymously as a free PDF. It's so good that it brings thousands of new people into the hobby. World leaders and...

To me a successful RPG is one that is being played, or has influenced other games/players to the extent that some part of it lives on in the next generation of RPGs that are being played.

And any metric of 'successful TV programmes' that didn't include at least the first two would be a faulty metric. (I'm not American, the third programme didn't reach my shores)

+1 Not only that, they named a bunch of stuff that didn't have names and those names became canon.

Commercially or artistically?

Started on the Horus Heresy books. The first one, Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, really surprised me with how good it was. I'm on book three at the moment and they're still pretty good. I'm not going to do the whole thing, my plan is to read the first five and the last four or so, picking out some...

The 1e DMG is a work of art. I ran 2e a few years back but made heavy use of the tables in that DMG. I started with 2e and the Mentzer red box so that's where my nostalgia falls back to but if someone started with 1e I could absolutely see that the power of nostalgia is big enough to overcome...

Thank you. She was, very sweet and playful.

This is Libby, who we sadly had to say goodbye to two months ago

Pretty much had this and other underworld stuff on repeat for a couple of weeks.

OK, not my intent. I'll bow out.

Yes. It's filled with people telling you directly and indirectly that they didn't understand what you meant.

Honestly I had no idea what you meant, and I still don't

I was the second post in the thread. I asked what you meant by 'narrative mechanics'. I got some laugh reacts but I was genuinely asking. You didn't clarify.