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Hey everyone!

We're making a standalone RPG using the Draw Steel engine called Night Shift: Devil Division. Set in 199X Tokyo, you play as a squad of operatives working for the Devil Division: the corporate facade of an ancient order tasked with detaining and destroying Devils who lurk in every corner of the Tokyo... and the UT Zone.

Hunt down Devils by following clues to their locations and detecting levels of Kegare (sprititual pollution); chase cultists and Yakuza through the narrow alleyways of the city; fight huge Devils in subway stations and pachinko parlours; or even drag a Devil back to HQ for interrogation and perhaps make a pact with them to gain a new technique.

We'll be streamlining certain bits of the Draw Steel engine and doing our own thing with the layout of the books. Here's some stuff we're hoping to do:

• Rewards shift toward Vault Techniques, Division Loadouts, Commendations, and Clearance progression
• Unified class resource (Momentum) and shared squad meta-currency (Adrenaline) -- easier to track and manage at the table
• Downtime as On Leave – Filler Episodes, Training Arcs, Group Outings, Leave Activities, and the world moving without you
• Chase Sequences -- a full dedicated chapter so you can run, leap, and tear through Tokyo in pursuit or retreat
• Simplified (optional) negotiation mechanics for Operatives who want a little more structure when dealing with sapient Devils and NPC contacts

There's more info, artwork and spread examples over on our BackerKit page if you fancy taking a look 👀

If I go to AnyDice.com this morning I get nothing but a message saying:

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Is this the situation for other people as well?

https://www.reddit.com/r/daggerheart/comments/1sz6vap/the_future_of_foundryborne_navigating_the/

Not sure how many of you are aware of the Daggerheart system (Darrington Press and Critical Role's newest RPG) but there's been some significant discussions over their Community Gaming License and limitations imposed on the community because of it.

While the above post directly highlights the issues in the VTT ecosystem, there are ongoing concerns with the CGL in general, especially with creators in the space. The current license prevents the development of VTT resources - pdf and paper are their current formats of choice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/daggerheart/comments/1l2fvrd/daggerheart_community_license_issues/

Is a back and forth discussion on the benefits or merits of the CGL.

A possibly unintended side effect of the license is that while third party creators are welcomed, it is challenging for them to develop virtual assets to be used in online gaming. In this current age that is somewhat surprising.

It's also curious that Daggerheart, which was developed in response to the WOTC licensing woes is creating a closed online ecosystem. At its launch it was promised to be an open gaming license.

Both the DrawSteel and Pathfinder 2e gaming licenses are much more open than Daggerheart's CGL. It's understandable to want to keep control of an IP. Pathfinder does this by allowing full access to mechanics, and creators are free to create online content however they wish, but Golarion and its lore is excluded.

Daggerheart is one of the easiest systems to homebrew that I've personally used. It seems to have been designed from the ground up for third part creation. Everything, except for the license.

I don't think I'm particularly biased in this. I've very little skin in the game. I'm not a third party creator. I just like playing my games wherever I choose to play them and am surprised in the stance of a company that designed and funded a game during the OGL wave.

My wife and I have been looking for some new games to play and she suggested I look at Invisible Sun. I'm still only part way through the quickstart document, but I was wondering if anyone here has ever tried to actually run this game.

It reminds me a lot of Mage: the Ascension, in that it is a very ornate and high concept game. It's probably deeply flawed, but it might also be a lot of fun.

I'd love to read if anyone here has any experience with it, or has read more of it and can shed any light on what you actually do with it.

I've just been watching the Ginny Dee video on 'Persuasion' mainly because I spent a long time discussing it in another thread on here yesterday and I was curious what Ginny had to say about it.
https://youtu.be/hAQj03ox2Ys?si=Bv_5eTpCDsbwfYv0
I agreed with everything she says about social encounters and persuasion rolls specifically. But then she mentioned the 'Draw Steel Negotiation Rules' that she said she thought solved the problem.

I must admit they sound interesting. As mentioned yesterday I already use an Opposed Roll Success Level System for deciding the outcome of persuation tests. But this system seemed to take the same idea and remove the randomness of the opposed roll system.

I'm just curious how it works in practice.

• Does it require a lot of additional prep?
• How satisfying are the outcomes?
• Does it require a lot of subjective judgment by the Gm to run?

I want to run a One-Shot inspired by the Pitt, with intense emergency room care in a magical modern city. My playgroup is most familiar with DnD 5e, but I can already see the problems that system would present in this type of environment. Does anyone have reccomendations for simple systems I could adapt for this one-shot instead of DnD rules?

I've found that my least favorite parts of GMing are consistently listing down vital stats for monsters and opponents. I've tried running modules so as to at least not have to worry about game balance, but that's often not enough to take away the monotony of writing down the stats. Are there any RPGs/systems out there with low prep times? I don't really have difficulty coming up with quests/characters, but again, having to balance encounters is frustrating to me.

I was always interested in running a campaign loosely based on the cult classic anime "Cowboy Bebop", and multiple game designers seemed to think likewise as they are multiple games on the market trying to emulate this work.

The two biggest games in this category are: The official Cowboy Bebop TTRPG and Orbital Blues.

What strikes me is that both games claim the same source of inspiration, while also having vastly different gameplays, or so it would seem.

I would be interested in reading the reviews of people of have red and/or played both and who would be able to compare them. I don't think one of these games is better than the others, but I think reviewing their differences and similarities would be interesting.

My child is 4, what would be a good ttrpg to start him with and at what age?

Investigation and mystery are the focus of many ttrpgs, and how those rules work can vary a TON. I am curious, what are your favorite investigations systems in ttrpgs? What do you like about them, and what do you think they bring to a game that other systems don't?

So I'm considering running a Deadlands Classic game online. Has anyone ever run it virtually? Im thinking of doing it on Discord, but Im open to other suggestions. I've never run anything virtually before, but I have 25+ years of in person GM experience. I really dont want to be on video ever.