Recent content by Professor Murder

I'm looking for an example of a ttrpg that is properly bleak in the text as written. I will try to explain what I mean below. I don't mean a game that can be played bleak or hopeless. I mean one which is rules as written designed for the players to expect to fail, ideally without even the...

Short term, get a copy and see what I can tear out and use elsewhere. Longer Term? Who knows. Hopefully run a game with it someday.

PCs have "classes" that progress through "levels."

At some point, some behind closed doors info may come out, but it may not. I will say this. Any licensed game has a lifespan. How long the publishing company can maintain the license. If EH was just not able to come to terms quickly enough for what game they wanted to release, it honestly makes...

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Short answer: No, best not.

While It did fulfil after some delay, Call of Cthulhu 7th ed KS was such a mess it nearly sunk Chaosium as I understand it. It took outside intervention which I am grateful for. As far as I can tell, the company is thriving now and the 7e version is probably my favorite.

So for me, I would use the idea of bein "exceptional" in that I want the odds of succeeding on a given task to be more likely than not. Not everything, but at the very least at things which I narratively and mechanically sculpt them to be good at. What's more key is that I want stories about...

I gotta agree. Feel like a tonal disconnect has occurred. I don't think it means anyone made a mistake per se. Sometimes we don't know our expectations until they are violated.

And yet its still clearly far too small to represent the size of the creature.

I mean, the mini proves my point. It is a gorgeous, massive piece that is visibly crammed onto that base.

It's better this way. A bad actor is called out. People shun them. Years go by and you wonder if their time out in the cold has changed them, helped them learn to be a polite community member. And then they come out of their bag and you know. It's better to know.

As the first pick shows off, scaling in DnD can sometimes be an impediment because of the face that creatures need to function as 5x5 squares. That dragon is larger than a football field. No way you could place that on your game table.

I am fascinated by the choice of a more "ArdKore" setting conceit for the series. Some of the design aesthetics so far for Daggerheart have read as very cute, and I have to think this is to highlight how the system is more versatile than one might assume.

I kinda think I need to see it in hand to judge.