by SeaofStars

I am fine with dice, dice pools are fun because you get to roll a handful of dice. I must say, I like systems where it is fairly easy to intuit your chance of success.

But any randomize could work but I have not played many games that used cards or similar things. Apart from Hucksters playing poker with the Devil in Deadlands, that was a mechanic I loved, shame they have made it almost unusable in the current edition of the rules.

by bryce0lynch

The Bonfire issue is something I refer to as Vista Overlooks:
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"But I like a 67 page backstory for every room!"
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A new rpg item version has been added to the database: Frozen In Time (Congelati nel Tempo)

A new rpg item version has been added to the database: Mercy of the Icons Part 2: The Last Cyclade (L'Ultima Ciclade)

A new rpg item version has been added to the database: Obscure: Found Footage Inspired Horror TTRPG (Hardcover Version)

A new rpg item version has been added to the database: DIE: The Roleplaying Game (Die: Il Gioco di Ruolo)

by papiklfish

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Happy anniversary of another orbit around Sol! 🎂🥸🎉

by KittyMcDuck

Anyone need a Friday badge? $10

by bryce0lynch

Flyboy Connor wrote:

I think there is something to be said for games that are more extensive with their backgrounds. Bryce always says things like he needs only two sentences on an NPC so that he can riff of that. I actually like to read more on NPCs, perhaps one or two pages on the NPCs which are important, so that I get a good idea of how the designers imagine them to be played. That doesn't mean that I do not riff on them. I tend to give my own interpretation of more important NPCs anyway.

We see here two issues: the problem with discourse on the internet and the general failure to appreciate the purpose of an RPG adventure.

I like airplanes that crash, killing everyone on board in a giant fireball that causes them to burn to death painfully and in agony. It's just my own person preference. And, yet, the majority of the population insists that is not ideal. THEY insist that the purpose of an airplane is NOT to explode in a giant fireball burning people to death in painful agony. We can have our own personal likes and dislikes, but in order to have a meaningful conversation we must get past "I like it. Just cause I do." Because we can't discuss someones personal preferences. Just wonder to ourselves in silent judgment, like good little humans.

The purpose of an adventure is to run it at the table. There are a wide variety of strategies to accomplish that. I am open to an NPC description being twelve pages long as long as I can reference it easily at the table. Which seems unlikely, but, hey, more power to you. Is it possible for a well-done steak to get three Michelin stars? I guess so. But most of us can agree thats unlikely and 'the correct way to cook a steak' is not that. Meaning that you are more likely to have success with a technique that preserves more of the streaks flavour. By keeping it terser and ALSO retaining the evocative nature of the NPC.

It's the designers job to help the DM wing it. That's what leveraging the DM, and cultural history and appeals to tropes and media does.

If I'm looking over the ridge in to a valley at night and there's a huge ass bonfire going out in the open at location #69 then the adventure needs to do something to assist the DM in relating that. It could be in a key. It could be in a "shit you can see easily" section up front before the keys, it could be done many different ways. But it should be done. Because the DM needs to know it because it should be obvious. Can you imagine exploring The Land of Shadow and only when you reach the base of the tower being told there's a giant flaming eye on top it? (Yes, I know, the book/the movie.)

by Dipperdog

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Tawny frogmouths are probably my favourite animals which pretend to be trees, and that's saying something- most animals which pretend to be trees are pretty awesome!

by Dipperdog

SherrieY wrote:

Dipperdog wrote:

I'm a conservation biologist, who has worked with some of the most endangered species on the planet. Endangered species figure regularly in my games, sometimes in subtle ways, and sometimes in less subtle ways.

And sometimes in the BEST ways. I see you, Thurn! 🤩 😆

For people not in the know, in my game the thurn riders ride thurns, a griffin-like creature, but instead of a cross between an eagle and a lion, it's a cross between two more endangered species: the kakapo and a tiger.

by Bruce McG

No turkey this week, but here are a couple of Tawny Frogmouths. Please don't eat them.



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