Recent content by Cadence

Hadn't seen the Year Zero system before. Thanks for posting and leading me to search up it's SRD! https://freeleaguepublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/YZE-Standard-Reference-Document.pdf

Heroes' Handbook was my last arrival. Not sure I'll get as much play in with it as I did with the first edition - but I like it again for all the ideas it gives for games I do run and my own unrealized heartbreaker. (And that at least the long rest period isn't called a day anymore).

It feels like there is a lot of space between rock star and not sucking with signs of a positive trajectory. I certainly believe that too many groups don't have nearly enough patience for this process. But I also don't know if I believe there are folks with limited time and a choice of games...

Experimenting with more sours, and DuClaw's 'Sour Me Unicorn Farts; pink lemonade glittered sour ale wasn't bad, but was really disappointing. The first large part was mostly ale with not much sour, and the bottom part of the glass that had closer to what I expected was good but not...

I wonder if a lot of terrible is that way because they aren't trying to get better.

I think I'm more than happy to give four sessions to it without huge expectations if it is being "reasonable" (doesn't need to be great, but has to be better than bad after a session or two and showing improvement if not good yet), and to continue if its trending well. Or similarly give some...

This popped up on BlueSky this week... and has got a bunch of answers from that site's denizens. Some of the answers reshared by Shannon Appelcline included: I don't think I have four that far from D&D and each other that I played more than two sessions. If you had to pick four what...

I don't have to keep replying, I don't have to keep replying...

I completely agree they should get a chance! If you have time for four gaming sessions a month, how many months of gaming will you use to give someone enough sessions of practicing and failing to be good enough? (Is there some set amount it takes people? That it is reasonable to take? That it...

I can generally manage to commit to one consistent night a week. And there are two groups of people I've played with in recent memory (including the current one virtually and the 2nd one in person) - each with a couple DMs if I'm not doing it - that I have had to choose between when there is a...