Recent content by Bayushi_seikuro

Great article as always. I find there can be a lot of interesting history to work into gaming. Salem is always a good scenario given that it purports to be about infernal pacts but usually ends up being so much more of neighbors landgrabbing each other, but I think there are other good...

I don't feel that's railroading as much as plot set-up, and as long as it's not used too often (the GM taking players' abilities away ex machina) it's okay. To me, the example of railroading was, when I was younger, there was a DM. The problem was he was one of those DMs who, instead of being...

Stripping the Esseray stealth ship. (Traveller, two years post-Fall of Tinath)

I don't know if you've seen, but... they explained the disappearance of the Alphas after the Bicentennial Battle in Chicago. When I read it - it blew my mind.

An oldie but a goodie is Brave New World, if you can find it. It's all low level supers, and essentially it's Savage Worlds for a system.

If need be, this should be your party's exit...

I like this. It reminds me of John Wick's Orkworld - an RPG that started out as a 4000 word essay just so he could play an ork bard in a D&D game (the GM's attitude was that orcs are just speedbumps for adventurers) - and the concept of Trouble. Some people are born with a little Trouble, and...

Exactly. Everyone needs to eat, and doesn't have a lord to provide it, so it's often a choice of choosing to be an adventurer or choosing banditry. "I didn't choose the adventuring life. .... it chose me."

I feel adventurers in D&D are a lot like the Magnificent Seven in film. They're not trusted because they're not generally tied down to the community enough for others to vouch for them. They don't have a steady employment - say, being a hired gun for a ranch. They tend to be tougher than the...

I'd agree - a short rest is a worthwhile gamble, unless that time could be used better to get out of the complex. The resource they're lowest on might not just be HP, but information: where the Master is, what the Master is, number and disposition of remaining minions (hell, some may have seen...

Personally, I like the escape back to get a full rest outside, and come back in, prepared for stiffer resistance. Or, an option that will allow the group to find a place to hunker down and get that full rest relatively safely. Yes, you may have put the compound on full alert, but...

I'm an odd duck. My favorite D&D games will always be the Gold Box (funny side note - due to limitations on the Commodore 64, when my party fought the spectre in the library in Pool of Radiance, his level drain drained my half-elf cleric/fighter/magic-user from level 1/1/1 to level 255 and set...

We have a local place with about 70 burgers (they also have a pretty broad menu, including casseroles). Burgers can even be chicken. My go-to from there tends to be the General Forster, which is just a burger topped with pimento cheese. https://www.hotrods50sdiner.com/hotrodsmenu

I agree. I think it's interesting to show the Beacon but be mysterious about what it exactly does. I also liked showing the effects of dunamancy with the half-rotted horses for example

I have to admit - I was very surprised to see Johnathan Frakes in MN. I think the first episode was really good - showing the high magic the Dynasty uses with the dunamancy and the Empire's volstruckers. I think they also did a good job of showing how the Cobalt Soul is different from...