Recent content by overgeeked

Old-school player principle #1. The answer is not on your character sheet.

Right. And Green Ronin would love for you to go out and buy their books…trouble is Diamond has possession and is keeping all proceeds to pay off their debts rather than giving GR the monies owed. So you can maybe see why they have to do this, right?

Man. I get that simply denying facts and reality is all the rage, but damn. That’s some ostrich-level crap right there.

Do you remember which issue that’s in?

Movies and TV shows prepared me for a life filled with quicksand and exploding gas stations. I’ve yet to encounter either. Closest I’ve got was watching a woman drive away with the gas hose still in her car. My wife and I braced for a boom. Nothing. The hose just detached and she was flagged...

I treat it as an extension of the mythic underworld or whatever flavor of fantasy you want. If it doesn’t make sense in the natural world, give it an unnatural explanation. There’s a portal to a swamp dimension or a water dimension or a swamp demon is trapped nearby. Magical experiments...

Hey, @Morrus

Mothership - Dead Planet or another one?

Green Ronin is live streaming about the situation and has set up a GoFundMe to help cover unexpected legal expenses. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-green-ronin-in-critical-legal-defense?lang=en_US

It always makes me sad to see books and boxes still in the shrink wrap. Ah. Mothership. That's another great one for no-prep one-shots. If you have the right booklets you can create an adventure almost as quick as with Pirate Borg. Hell, you could probably just roll up a Pirate Borg adventure...

"Read the book." LOL. You first.

Daggerheart, p 150. QUICK REFERENCE: RESOLVING ACTION ROLLS If you’re unsure how to resolve a roll, think about these quick phrases: Success with Hope: Yes, and… (You get what you want and gain a Hope.) Success with Fear: Yes, but… (You get what you want, but there’s a consequence, and the GM...

I think I kind of get it thanks to a recent Sly Flourish or Questing Beast video. Gamers will optimize the fun out of the game but they will also optimize the uncertainty out of the game. You can see this when gamers complain about exactly those kinds of loose systems, referee calls, fiat, etc...

I'm not sure that's a distinction that makes a difference. If people didn't think OD&D was broken and needed fixing there'd never have been any other RPGs*. Again, that's literally how the entire hobby came to be. Someone played a game, thought something was broken, and got to fixing it. Fix...

It looks good at first blush. Though I'd make it easier by just going with Hit Dice + level or + CON mod as the baseline and scale up from there. Basically simplify the math just for ease of use.