Recent content by Retreater

I'd love to make it through The Enemy Within. So far, I've made it through Book One a couple times.

The most difficult part (maybe the only difficult part) of going with Daggerheart for both games I'm running is the divorce from the rest of the hobby. I'm not following what is going on with D&D. I'm not going to be using or buying the new Forgotten Realms books. There's really nothing going...

Yeah. I had two challenging fights (on separate sessions) that ended up with death moves for a character each. They had the options to take the safer route, but each player took the risky choice - and one failed. Fortunately, they took it in stride because it was their decision. Still, I do...

Well, I haven't been posting much about this campaign, but we've been playing regularly (biweekly) for a couple months. They really enjoyed the minigame of collecting scrap to augment their weapons (Ikonis). My wife is using her "puzzle" brain to decipher the Kohd puzzles. We had an epic fight...

Since moving to GMing Daggerheart, I prep about 15 minutes for each 2 hours played.

So I am running two Daggerheart campaigns. I just noticed that Heroforge has these ancestries. I'm trying to understand the model, but it wasn't clear from the website. Is it that I have to pay to get access to be able to buy a miniature? I'm really confused.

It was interesting that in a recent episode of Questing Beast that Ben mentioned that he doesn't like rolling to cast because he wants a guarantee that the tools his character prepares can be used. He likens it to have to roll to see if your crowbar works. This is my exact issue with...

I may be an outlier, I've had more character deaths by an order of magnitude in the modern era of gaming (3rd edition and onwards) than I did in my TSR era. Part of that is I felt free as a DM. The rules weren't so codified as "have this many encounters in a day," "you can handle enemies of this...

We've tried two back-to-back campaigns of A5e (and they seem likely to want to start a 3rd this weekend). They can't run their characters without the Level Up Gateway character software - so the table is clogged with tablets and laptops. Some of the math isn't correct on the software, which...

I have two players who started (like me) in the TSR AD&D era. I have another (quite vocal player who also happens to be my wife) who is adamant that OSR games aren't fun. She argues that characters tend to start much weaker than they are in modern systems & you are discouraged from fighting...

I've essentially got 4+ systems I would be happy to run for them. 1) Call of Cthulhu (with Pulp add-on as an option) 2) Daggerheart 3) Dragonbane 4) An OSR variation (OSE, Castles & Crusades, Shadowdark, etc.) I think that's enough to choose from, but we'll see.

I think it's 5e (or a variant) or nothing. Anything resembling OSR is too underpowered. And they don't want to learn anything not based on D&D.

Please tell me they are changing the name to "Newer School Essentials."

About 2 weeks ago, I made a serious push to get my group to consider Castles & Crusades for its next campaign. I would say this is the third time it's been shot down - this time in so definite terms that I don't think I will ever bring it up again.

I'm glad they finally admitted it and can cut off the expectations to focus on more achievable goals. To me, from the beginning, it seemed like something that was too ambitious while being out of step with how many players enjoyed the game.