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Yes, if it's well thought out (ie something besides sanity, let's say) and provides cues for players to seize on in the moment.

Some parts of it would quite well in an adventure or module!

Comment to add one should always pay close attention to what names Dickens' characters have, often the flag they fly.

I've been following discussions about leveling systems in concert with or in contrast to horizontal ones and this made me realize I haven't bothered to tie leveling to any fiction. Which sticks out for me because of how much the rest of the game I am running leans that way! The level process...

Admittedly tough; many previously not aware of. Oddly, the ones I picked likely won't bring to the table this coming year. :3

Don't have much to add except to mention that while standards in terms of distribution are better now for small, indie FLGS's (it's possible to diversify), this is still dictated by geography. If your US shop was located in "ag country" or "rural" (i.e. city pop. 90k, state capitol 1.5-2 hours...

Comment to say I like the attempt to fashion replacement wings that some suggested. I thought immediately of How to Train Your Dragon. It's nice because it's something the PCs could do that lets them exercise their agency. I also like the idea of having to negotiate with a more powerful NPC...

I've looked a little at this too; my feeling is that you'd need to use it as your base system for your players (class, spells and combat system). Some people who've been discussing their games have mentioned they like the 3 action economy and emphasis on reactions. Monsters wouldn't be too...

Kinds of video games (puzzle, simulator, fps, rts, arpg etc and more recently soulslike/roguelike/roguelites) : Kinds of TTRPGs (5e D&D, OSR, PbtA, GMless/solo, Storygames) feels more closely aligned than above.

I am OK thus far, but two other immediate participants were eliminated on 1 Dec!

Most of the time a crit fail/crit success results in a very favorable or very unfavorable occurrence in the fiction. One time a player used a less than ideal weapon (sword) to punch through a wood wall. They rolled a crit fail; their weapon went through, got stuck past their wrist. They had to...

Defining Interactivity (from alldeadgenerations) is a post that's part of an ongoing series primarily on dungeon design, but this particular entry was focused on keying so that surroundings become more interactive. Many of the points people previously brought up as being constructively helpful...

You'll get there. Revising is where most stuff happens!

People know a lot about mythological creatures! I like unicorn (and its cousin, 麒麟). A close second would be Tomte (Nisse).

Motion Picture just for Jerry Goldsmith's Klingon Battle... shivers hearing that in the theater.

FWIW, I lean towards slot systems and I like Mausritter's inventory system; it's among the best developments that came out of that game, and practically a foundation in the OSR space from what I gather.

I understand the sentiment of weirdness you describe in terms of this as a mechanic; however, Liminal Horror has an entirely different intent in design (and context, it's explicitly horror) than some of the fantasy systems that do the same, like Cairn or Mausritter. As an example, take the...

While I favor published modules and adventures that keep an eye to presentation and information design in mind, I feel like there is benefit when modules use a more prose/pleasure-to-read approach for some parts. Sometimes that can be when you have factions or organizations that the party...

Reading these descriptions, if it's as great as you are intending, I can imagine how challenging it might be just to navigate through the space a horde that size occupies.

Some mentioned 1E Tiamat treasure table, but when I read this, my first thought was to go look at the kinds of treasure each of the chromatic dragon types would tend to prefer; then go overboard because it's Tiamat. Maybe Tiamat favors different kinds of her gifted treasures depending on the...