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Last 48 hours for those who may be interested, all stretch goals unlocked!! :D

Thanks for the Argosa shout out Egg, appreciate it!

G'day Gamers! Steve here from Pickpocket Press. Just a quick shout out that the Tales of Argosa Kickstarter (aka Low Fantasy Gaming 2e) is now live! Includes FREE Playtest PDF v5 (249 pages), character sheets, pregens and an Adventure (Caverns of Shennog). You can also try out our two Oracles...

Cheers! The best summary is probably the one page summary on p.5 of the playtest doc, but to paraphrase: Dark & Dangerous Magic (roll to cast, levelless spells, with escalating chance of mishap, including a claw hand!), 9 classes only 2 of which have magic (low to moderate magic default), 9th...

G'day Gamers! Steve here from Pickpocket Press. Just a quick shout out that the Tales of Argosa Kickstarter (aka Low Fantasy Gaming 2e) is now live! Includes FREE Playtest PDF v5 (249 pages), character sheets, pregens and an Adventure (Caverns of Shennog). You can also try out our two Oracles...

Are there any changes to the classes in this adventure?

Thanks, yes I agree these sorts of drop tables can be very fun for solo rpging :)

I've been thinking a lot about Emergent Play lately and decided to try a "Social Encounter" drop table for Lowlife 2090, and similar cyberpunk games. There are a few slang words (Trem = Junkie, Beck = office worker, Peacekeeper = cop, CTAC = Catastrophic Transmutative Arcane Contagion), but I...

sorry double post

From the book: Designer’s Thoughts Although hit points, spells and other abilities tend to replenish regularly, relying on Luck gets riskier the longer an adventure goes on. Diminishing Luck is intended to serve several purposes. Firstly, players must make choices about when to use their Luck...

For me, fun combat, ie good gamplay, is the primary reason I play trpgs. It's the best part. Any story or RP is a bonus. Yeah, there can be cool RP moments, but if there was no combat I'd find other things to do with my time. This is probably also why I dont enjoy 5e very much (too easymode) or...

I play RPGs for the fun combat. A one roll win/lose mechanic would mean combat is over waaaaay too fast for me. 20 min combat, awesome, perfect! 2 min combat wrapped into a single dice roll with no depth? No thank you.

Definitely not. In fact, dnd should only have 10 levels. That's where it works best and is most fun.

To answer the OP - I think the answer is very obvious - if they've failed to escape, those two PCs get executed. Roll up new PCs! Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Anything else and the players know you'll do anything to save their PCs to preserve them, which is fatal to good gameplay (and...

Character death is not a problem, it is desirable (essential, even?). For good gameplay you need real danger. You can have the most awesome preplotted story in the world... but No danger = No fun = Players get bored and campaign folds after two sessions. If your PC dies early or mid session...

It's already kind of in 5e with the Savage Attacker feat I think - you can reroll damage. Which is almost but not quite as good as adv on damage rolls.