Recent content by GobHag

Unironically yes, maybe not make the BBEG everyone's parent/family since some players just want their parent/family as just that--parent/family. If I just want a neutral world, why would I go to an RPG? IRL is already neutral.

INCORRECT! The world I present to the players are molded to fit the characters and players, I don't suddenly have their homes get destroyed by an earthquake or a random kitchen fire. They're torched by arsonists hired by mob bosses they've crossed. The appearance of neutrality is needed at...

Do I actually present a neutral game world or do I give the appearance of neutrality?

And it should be 3 arrows at level 5 at the very latest

I don't want it to be high level. Make it level 5 at most.

The art has not been created however, the sites and destination is clear but the journey hasn't been taken.

This blogpost did a great job in putting into digital paper some of the 'techniques' and 'style' of neotrad, also shows off a less RAW-abiding version of Neotrad that doesn't uses the modern games that are built for it...

Terrible but expected news. A great shame since CofD was my second 'big' TTRPG fandom I played in, it did a lot to shape my tastes.

Should have said trad games instead of design ethos specifically--Vampire is a Trad game and is played very Trad-like with its 'frustrated novelist' GMs(if we're being negative here) after all.

As this has strayed away a bit from discussing Neotrad specifically, let me say this; I consider Simulationism to be something I'm vehemently against in my games(systems and tables). Systems that want that as the goal are an automatic 'no' to me and tables that are looking for realism are an...

I also agree with this but I have no negative feelings towards it. Basically any kind of TTRPG theorisation that reaches even a sliver of acceptance requires influencer-ing. Also, branding is important and what @Wofano Wotanto said

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This is an incredible find, I haven't heard of the game at all before this but this is really interesting. Also I'm very looking forward to reading that GM advice.

While primacy of character is important, premise and setting do work as a way to make sure everyone on the table are in the same page. It's probably why the idea of limiting ancestry for verisimilitude reasons are disliked so much, the not-entirely-canon-compliant Forbidden Realms in most 5e...

Yeah very much correct. While coming in raw with utterly wild characters that doesn't fit the party is a recipe for disaster, there are tables where that's fine--not in any that I've player though but I have seen it occasionally. But also usually NeoTrad play cultures does lead to complete...