Recent content by overgeeked

Near as I can tell the play loop of a dungeon crawl is: 1. Kick in the door. 2. Kill all the monsters. 3. Loot the bodies. 4. Search the room. 5. Find a new door. There are places where this can be expanded. Make step 1, kick in the door, interesting by including traps or puzzles that...

I gotta say I'm loving the sound of the campaign set up. Rebellion against an evil empire is always a banger.

Finished Perry Rhodan #2, The Third Power. With this installment Perry Rhodan and the crew of the Stardust manage to prevent WW3 by using advanced alien technology to negate nuclear reactions. The Western, Eastern, and Russian powers all launched their stockpiles of nukes and hoped some of their...

Both. I run it regularly, but not all the time. When I don't run it it's because of the things I listed.

Eberron is one of my all-time favorite D&D settings. I run it regularly but have to really fight against the urge to just homebrew my own to run an existing setting. I don't run Eberron for two reasons. First, the lore is absurdly dense and hard to collate across however many books. Plus...

Yes all around. It doesn't matter where the time pressure is coming from, why it's there, or what it is...only that some kind of time pressure exists. Wait too long and your torch burns down is just as compelling as wait too long and monsters attack (as long as those monsters are actually...

It sounds like he wants to. Here's to hoping it's soon.

Arrakis—Dune—Pumpkin Planet.

Awesome. Thanks. Turns out there’s a thread on the purple site which includes some back-and-forth with the author. https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/untamed-worlds-anthro-military-sci-fi-action.930906/

Great review as always from Quinns. Buried deep in the review is a marvelous bit of wisdom. For the finale of their Triangle Agency game they simply ignored the rules and played. And it was the single best session he has ever had playing an RPG.

I could only watch the first 5 minutes before having to make dinner. He’s on fire as usual.

Oh. Jack is good people. That's an auto-buy from me. Anyone know anything about the system?

The struggle is real.

Nah. Write even looser rules as an obvious trap for jerks. When they gleefully fling themselves into the trap, show them the door.

It’s not possible to jerk-proof game design. We’ve been trying for the life of the hobby. The solution is not more ironclad writing, the solution is not playing with jerks.