by TomTomThePipersSon

Inkwan wrote:

TomTomThePipersSon wrote:

System mastery shouldn't be that complicated- if it is, I probably won't want to play the game. As for setting mastery, I homebrew settings, so it's a moot point, really.

So, how badly do you want your players to engage with your setting? Like enough to know what's going on or enough to roleplay whole scenes in character?

Personally, I enjoy minimal system mastery and moderate setting mastery best but I don't mind system experts that maximize the potential of a D&D 5e druid, nor that metagame the monsters or factions....I will mod them pretty quick after the first interaction anyway for monsters and factions are almost always my own.

They learn new bits of the world as they encounter them, but they don't have to buy books to read about decades worth of lore, so the pressure on them is minimal- it just involves their own memory and/or note taking skills, and they can explore as they go. Also, if people want to build their characters to maximise certain aspects, good on them, but it will also mean minimising other aspects- such is life. Mostly, I like keeping the barriers to fun low. 🙂

by Cricky

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This has being going since 1991 and I'm only just hearing about it? Must be one of the many American holidays. 😄

Recently I've been just playing Fields of Mistria on my Steam Deck to get that Stardew Valley fix. It's like the sequel we never had. There are some differences which actually help and you can tell they are big Stardew Valley fans as it has a very similar feel.

As for favourite games of all time. In no particular order, just as they come into my head... HλLF-LIFE, HλLF-LIFE², Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, Dark Age of Camelot, Tetris (1984), Tomb Raider (1996), Tekken 2, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Homeworld, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Master of Magic (1994), Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. A mix of FPS, MMO, RPG, RTS, Platform, Puzzle and Beat 'em Up. Need a mix of genres. 😉

by wildthayne

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by TSSL

The cloudflare issue has also been blocking access for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which doesn't seem to have been able to save anything for over a week. This seems to be happening on a lot of sites that use cloudflare lately, which doesn't bode well for, well, archiving. Hopefully they can do something to let it through so it can stay accessible?

by Inkwan

TomTomThePipersSon wrote:

System mastery shouldn't be that complicated- if it is, I probably won't want to play the game. As for setting mastery, I homebrew settings, so it's a moot point, really.

So, how badly do you want your players to engage with your setting? Like enough to know what's going on or enough to roleplay whole scenes in character?

Personally, I enjoy minimal system mastery and moderate setting mastery best but I don't mind system experts that maximize the potential of a D&D 5e druid, nor that metagame the monsters or factions....I will mod them pretty quick after the first interaction anyway for monsters and factions are almost always my own.

by Pyronik2003

An item GeekList: 2026 Challenge: Play 10 Games 10 Times Each has been added to the geeklist 2026 Gaming Challenges (Pyronik)

by Heidirs

$20.00 for Board Game: Legacy of Dragonholt
Condition: Like New
Location: United States

by chuckdee68

Huge GDW Traveller bundle on Fanatical, including tracks for Novels, RPGs, and comics

https://www.fanatical.com/en/collections/the-traveller-unive...

by TomTomThePipersSon

System mastery shouldn't be that complicated- if it is, I probably won't want to play the game. As for setting mastery, I homebrew settings, so it's a moot point, really.

by Derang3d

Archer?

by Damdael

I wrote this reply over at Kickstarter comments but I'll paste it here because the different sites probably have different readers.

I hope the lukewarm review isn't too discouraging and instead brings about thoughts how to perhaps improve the book (for future print runs) or the next books already in varying stages of development. I like supporting the production of new gamebooks but I also think that there's no point in writing book reviews unless I'm honest about my opinions in them.

Like I wrote in the review I do have my own preferences (for example my aversion to AI generated art affected the rating I gave) and I commented about them in the review so that readers can decide for themselves if they care about those opinions or not. I backed the book knowing the art was going to be AI generated and that it probably would clash with my preferences but I do try to give new authors/companies/ideas a chance instead of just sticking to the same old stuff.

by Derang3d

Doesn't that balance seem off?