Recent content by Retros_x

OP presented it well. When DM deal more damage and hit harder you need to heal at some point to bring back downed PCs, but thats about it. Better to kill off the strong hitting enemies or bring them under control with spells than trying to compensate their damage with healing.

A TTRPG without own worldbuilding can exist, some DM just take printed campaigns and run them by the book. But a TTRPG without the actual play - is not the real thing. Its like when you plan to always go on a hike, but you never do, you are not a hiker. I think this is true for every activity...

I think when you call collaborative storytelling "other players contaminating the fiction", the appeal of TTRPG is lost on you in general. Good that Solo RPG works, probably the best for everyone involved.

I don't, because this problem can get solve in different ways. Why would I take this trade off, If I can solve it without trade-offs: I don't let roll for stuff someone just should know and if I do roll for something the hero should be quite proficient and he fails, I make sure to narrate that...

I dont care about success rate, I can control rate of success via setting the DC. I care about boring dice result. Bell curve results are just one step closer to be done with rolling and take 10. Again might be working with systems that have their complete resolution mechanic base around that...

I just finished "Salems Lot" by Stephen King. It took me a bit I started it last year in november I think got bored by the slow start but after finishing "The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires" I wanted to continue it to have the comparison - and I liked it! This time I could lean...

Unspecified in detail because I want it to be a) not a focal point b) be mythological and unexplained. Having a specified cosmology and telling it the players would make it explained and "scientific".

nah, landing more on averages is not gritty, its everday. Its boring. Its good for an office simulation, not for any TTRPG. My opinion of course, nothing factual about that, although it feels very factual to me. Gritty is in most cases just more difficult and more resource focuses (from a...

Again, he also does similar things to male coworkers. There is a pattern, yes, but its not a sexist one, but I would say the pattern is that he often fails what he preaches himself, especially in s2. He chews people out, calls them out in often a very direct and rude matter. S2 clearly portrays...

I am not sure I ever met really alien ways of playing, I just had once a noob player who came up with absurd ideas that didn't make sense for me even without considering any rules. I want to enable players to be creative and come up with good solutions, but hers just seemed random. Like in the...

In a way yes, because the homebrew cannon needs less dice to kill a PC than in D&D, but overall you would need to do the same, homebrew a weapon and design how it deals damage to structures and how to heroes. I am not saying you cannot do the "leading an army into a siege" scenes, SD is...

If I want to feel success on a normalized average basis I just log in my workplace. Nothing heroic or dramatic about that for me :) (seriously I hate bell curves in TTRPG, or at least in games that were not designed for them, as D&D for example)

Similar to every other game that is not a war game - however you want, because this is outside the intented design scope. I could homebrew you a ships cannon that kills PCs in both SD and DnD 5e even if it doesnt make sense. Although I think a higher level DnD character SHOULD survive a direct...

Yes, but it OP implied exactly that, that was my point. AI did not got sold directly to the users, but via the buzz/hype. The general hype "talk" was the sale pitch.

Funny I also recently delved into a completely new sports for me - Basketball. I was just in the mood for a team ball sport and I am annoyed by football - its the everyman sports in Germany, but the league is so boring. I remembered I enjoyed basketball as a kid because one of my best friends...