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**Come here and talk about anything!**

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A GM posted a oneshot and was basically accepting first come first serve. Premise was basically pick your own adventure by talking to different townsfolk at the beginning of the session. The GM had everyone introduce themselves and their PC's, explained how they run things a bit differently than raw but nothing too major. Reminded everyone of the premise, gave us different NPC's names and what they generally want and set us off. Asking to decide as a party.

We decided on a quest based off our composition which quest would best suit our abilities but one player had a background thing that could tie into the quest. They asked the GM if they could no know more about the quest and they said yea. Gave us more details, what the player would specifically know in general and asked the player to elaborate or give more input on the things they were describing. Overall I thought very creative on the fly improv style gming.

Some of my companions for the adventure however thought otherwise. So with the information gathered and extra bit of rp had. The group set off and as we approached another location to potentially gather more information, which again was based off a players input and the GM flew with it.

Upon arriving the GM asked a PC a background question and created a NPC on the spot that the party could interact with based around their background. As the party was interacting with the NPC asking them question on our quarries capabilities, the GM was giving unconfirmed answers. That the beast we were hunting is rumored to have xyz abilities and effects. That to my knowledge were completely homebrew or at the very least a amalgamation of different monsters in one.

We never got to fight it as one of the players had enough apparently and accused the GM of using AI derailing the session. Their argument was based around how the GM was apparently making the adventure up on the fly and the monster abilities list were random AI list for monster attacks. And the reason why they asked players to give more input was so they can feed their responses to chagpt. GM defense was that they do on the fly style of games all the time and thats what they prefer and are comfortable with.

Either case the session was derailed we didn't finish and after thinking on it. I worry for the state of the hobby. Where GM's have to use published or official module/adventures, if people are so paranoid about AI that they start accusing GM's who are too improvy.

Or am I worrying too much?

Just now, Monte Cook Games announced the Cypher Open License.

(This is a new work, distinct from the Cypher System Open License released years ago.)

It's fairly simple and straightforward, except for one bit:

Neither the Work nor any advertising, promotions, press releases, or other documents affiliated with the Work may promote racist, homophobic, discriminatory, or other repugnant views; overt political agendas or views; depictions or descriptions of criminal violence against children; rape or other acts of criminal perversion; or other obscene material.

I immediately have two questions:

1/ do they really mean "overt political agendas or views" with the breadth it entails? Covered Works that explore themes of – let's say – decolonialism, destroying a fascist political machine, the beauty of pluralism in democracy, smashing the patriarchy, or the wonders of gender self-determination … are not compatible with the license? That seems odd to me, and not quite what MCG intended.

2/ by who's definition of those terms? Or is that simply answered by "a court of law when the parties end up in conflict"?

I dropped by BoH and saw that there are FIVE bundles of GURPS content running right now!

This is a game that is recommended a lot (sometimes, it’s even appropriate!) and is hard to find on sale, so this is pretty great!

There are bundles of basics, space, fantasy, combat action, and multiversal fun!

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/G4Essentials2026

As always, I am affiliated with neither BoH nor SJG, just a fan of both.

Okay, let's be honest, I doubt we'd get consensus on the colour of an orange in this sub, but let's aim high.

Different games, different groups, different styles, most advice is pretty conditional / situational. Can we come up with a few bits that 90%+ can agree is good for 99% of situations.

My own thought, don't roll or ask for a roll unless it's meaningful.

Right now I have all my campaign and world notes in OneNote, stored on my own computer and backed up to my Microsoft account. I've been looking at free online services like WorldAnvil and Kanka to host some of my worldbuilding notes, though, so that players would be able to see them, and look up details they're interested in.

My concern is that a lot of these websites are relatively new or unstable. And even the more stable ones could make bad decisions or fall out of favor, go bankrupt, and shut down in 5 or 10 years. I heard that WorldAnvil has redesigned its interface more than once a year, for example, which I think is an extremely bad sign. Some of its competitors have already gone down, and people have lost their entire tabletop worlds as a result, thousands of hours of work down the drain, campaigns ruined.

I'm planning my 4th campaign in the same world, having run adventures here for about 8 years now. I want an option that will still be there in 20 years when I'm running my 11th campaign in this world. That is the most important thing to me. But I'm not sure if that means I need to stick with OneNote. I'm aware that I could share a OneNote notebook with my players, and Microsoft is an ideal hosting company because they'll be around forever, but OneNote is really not designed for this; it's ugly and hard to organize. People viewing it are shown a document editing interface the whole time, there are no tags for organization, and users can't even open images in a new tab to see them at full size. So, I'm looking for advice.

I'm sure there are people here who know more than me about which worldbuilding notes services have either really stable business management and business situations, open source mentalities, or self-hosted options. I feel like any one of those three would mean that the service will never suddenly go out of business and cause me to lose everything.

What's the best narrative twist you've pulled off successfully in one of your games?

My favorite twist I pulled off was an "evil sire" in Vampire: The Requiem. The player character's sire was constantly giving him toxic positivity and helping out in all the wrong ways. For instance, to help him get appointed as Sheriff in the city she bloodbound some Pandorans (i.e. failed feral constructs) and had them attack the Prince of the City.

Later on in the campaign the player character met with one of his sire's rivals who revealed a graveyard full of her dead childe. The player character thought this proved that if he defied his "mother" he'd be killed. The sire revealed when confronted that her previous childe asked her to stop helping them and they died via rebellion or lack of protection (which was true).

The player character decided to deliver a warning and told their sire she wasn't allowed to create disasters for him to prevent. So she agreed... but then told her Ghoul manservant to take up the responsibility... 😅

Does anyone know a game similar to Neon Odyssey that I could use for a futuristic space cowboy campaign? I'm looking for a system with space travel, bounty hunting, neon cities, hacking, cybernetics, and a mix of action and investigation.

New GM examining Knave 2e and haven't had a chance to play it yet. When, for example, a Basilisk calls for a CON check or be petrified, is that check always against a DC 16, given the default difficulty is +5 and it doesn't list a DC? Are they ever any higher or lower than that?

Fairly straight forward question. I will say that i'm primarily thinking of classes, not sub-classes that are a wacky and zany twist on a class.

I've noticed that i learned many things since i started playing rpg. The most important one is talking in public. I also learned english by reading the books and watching videos online. D&d changed my life in many ways. What did YOU learned playing Rpgs?