Recent content by Faolyn

It doesn't matter what people say. The text says "a HP." Well, I don't think it's drifted far enough yet to justify not using it in something that isn't casual.

No, I'm stating a pretty well known part of writing. You can't have a piece be all something all the time. To quote Asimov, "you can't build a symphony on just one note." He was talking about dystopias/utopias there, but it makes sense for all genres. If something is 100% something, it becomes...

While maybe not necessary, an undead-type ancestry and some new or expanded monsters would be useful. The main monster types in Ravenloft--going by the Van Richten Guides--are ghosts, vampires, liches, mummies/ancient dead, werebeasts, (shadow) fey, hags, golems/constructs, and lesser undead...

Maybe something like you only get one downtime move if you don't have Supply. Or if you want to get mathy for it, you one move for a number of long rests equal to your Tier, then no moves after that; at higher Tiers, you're better at scavenging just enough stuff to count as starvation rations...

Princess is by default a gendered term, and more specifically, it conjures up images of very pink damsels in distress: girls whose purpose is to be married off, harassed by evil queens, kidnapped by brigands or dragons, etc., with the only benefits being the ability to sing and call upon your...

They're usually about low-key, mellow situations, including things like tea parties, household events, and comfortable things. Most of them do have things that cause tension and raise the stakes, these are generally things like family issues, not combat or having to save lives.

I apologize, then; I misunderstood.

Sure. Why not. If people use the term correctly, which a lot of people here are not. That's why we had probably hundreds of pages of screaming cooks.

Especially when "play pretend" does the job just as well and is completely open to all modes of play and all genders.

That is, of course, an opinion. But saying that the background world is described predominately by the GM does not make the game GM-driven. That was rhetorical, mostly, but this very much is my point. If there's no known exit, then you have the PC/player not only create the meaning out of...

So? Not everyone wants to flounder, and not everyone wants advice instead of rules. And every game mechanic demands that situations are handled in a certain way.

Level Up does that as well, with a generic Supply that counts as either a day's rations or as a simple, one-use travel item (like mosquito netting, useful for traveling through a swamp or jungle). A lot of Exploration Challenges cause you to lose Supply on a bad roll. It should be a snap to...

Wait, so you assume that because I try not to have "nothing happens" be the result, that means I have a boring game?

It''s not a question of how much or how little time it takes. It's a question of the result. "Nothing happens" means that the game just stops because nothing happens. Sure, the PCs can choose to do something else or come up with another method but that's besides the point. Because this isn't...

What I'm really saying is that "nothing happens" is boring.