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"Short Rest" was 5E's attempt to curb the 5 Minutes Work Day... which is meaningless anyway since we're talking the about Viking Hat Edition where DMs are encouraged to constantly drop wandering monsters and Suddenly Ninjas on players who dare not run the full gauntlet in one sitting. That...

I've never delved into Dragonlance myself... and I'll stay away until the day comes kender get fully remade and are no longer a license to do disruptive play.

You don't need to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to do a mystery (I'm sure as hell not). All you need to plan a mystery is answering the "5 w's"... 1) What 2) Who 3) When 4) Where 5) Why Get your culprit, his motivation, and build a crime scene. You're done. The crime scene will spawn the clues...

OgreBattle wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:21 am

What very-different-from-dnd tabletop RPG's do you suggest for mystery and similar

Gumshoe indeed.

“Star Wars, but medieval fantasy.” You can validly argue that the story of a farmer boy who is tutored by an old wizard to rescue a princess from a black knight already is medieval fantasy, especially when they all live in a kingdom that's going through a literal new dark age after the space nazis ...

Sounds like you're rather comfy in your comfort zone. If you really want something else, you should give it a try at putting in the work with the respective systems. Even if the game doesn't turn out the way you imagined it would, you'll still be rewarded with knowing how far away from your comfort ...

For it to be a pyramid scheme, the lower levels need to produce something for the higher levels to leech off. Something like "each kill done by MINION sends expees to the upper levels." While this sounds interesting in paper, in the practice this only encourages players to go Morrowind Che...

The neckbeards on your neck of the woods must be very different from mine, because all the SW neckbeards on my end of things loved ep. 9.

Despite the fact that, if you look at the comics, Answer the Call is canon. The only one who can determine canon, alas, is Aykroyd (Ghostbusters is specifically his baby), and you can bet he's gonna be dodging that landmine of a question like Neo dodged bullets in his prime, so chances are we'll ne...

so I'm curious what people think of a hypothetical setting/system where, instead of choosing a race, like elf or dwarf, you chose your character's "magical race-neutral based on birth archetype" ie, their astrological sign. Because it's fucking fantasy and stars influencing peoples' trait...

or admit that that is exactly what they fucking mean when they say that. Guilty as charged. We all have our comfort foods, and Ghosbusters is it for me. I guess this is what Ep 9 (which I hated) was for the SW neckbeards. Thing is, the middle ground is so far away that its light won't reach us for ...

Negotiating is going to be the longest part, this is where the assholes will do their worst to drag their feet for years.

Does anyone else feel like you've hit a roadblock in gaming, where you just can't be fucked learning new entire game systems, so for the rest of your life it's going to be "the handful of systems I know and like, and each time a system falls out of favour with everyone else, that's one fewer t...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:59 pm

Isn't that movie meant for people in their 50's?

The movie is early 80s, and back then most countries didn't believe in The Nanny State, so non-US kids were allowed in movie theatres to watch PG-13 movies (and teens in NC-17 movies) as long as they came with an adult.

That's all.

It's amazing.

It's the Ghostbusters movie I've been waiting for all this time.

I haven't liked a movie this much since Watchmen.

Disclaimer: Ghostbusters is an IP too close to my withered, putrid heart, I am rather biased.

but it does feel like the players who are more mtp/"lets all just make a fun story" are making strong strides in the sort of ...culture cold war that D&D exists in. DnD tv shows are as much evidence of progress as Biden (i.e, both are just TV, not the way actual things work). Having s...

there's a big difference between "the bargain between deity and cleric is that so long as the cleric serves the deity's interest the cleric gets to keep his powers" (what's implied by the various Codes of Conduct in 3e and the flavor text in both 2e and 3e) and "gods are capricious j...

Why do I do this to myself? Why do I keep checking MPSIMS when it only brings me Facebook-caliber misery?

Wrong forum?

The only reason do-nothing Dems are still allowed to exist is because the GOP still needs them as a boogieman and enemy in their hatred rhetoric.

...I can only wonder, though, how long before the Dems outlive their purpose (and if you ask me, the clock is already ticking).

I don't expect to survive my country's civil war in 2024 anyway.

Setantistic RPG: "Wait, is this just Final Fantasy Tactics mashed up with Chrono Trigger as an RPG? Where's the ability scores?" Considering that, unlike most TTRPGs, videogames are made by, you know, actual game designers, aping systems from videogames is something I see as rather reason...

Objection. The distinction between wuxia and western is that western takes place in the "frontier" and wuxia... Since I haven't read or watched nearly enough wuxia, I guess I'll have to take your word for it. My point stands, though. To play historical pirates you need a shit setting, and...

THIS is the reason I don't care for historic fantasy games. Exactly this. History is ass. Also, OP's question is a bit of an oxymoron, like "how do I avoid triggering a survivor while exposing them to triggering events?" Ok, I think we all agree Western's core is a murderhobo protagonist w...

It's the "personal discretion" part that's the issue, I think, not the ability to do it at all. Ever since 2E Clerics have been a reasonably OP class to motivate players (since no one wants to be the healbot), but that power comes with strings. A cleric's powers comes explicitly at their ...