Recent content by Reynard

I intend to restart a blog or maybe do a newsletter -- either way as long as I can create and share fun game things. I don't really want to dive fully back into freelance or go through the trouble of publishing, but I like to make stuff and I like it when people see that stuff in some form or...

Specifically the tension of "oh crap don't move or you'll die" is not something I have ever seen work at a table outside of its gameplay implications. There is a degree of removal from the action, with the dice and character sheet etc... serving as a veil. Like I said, i don't think it is...

I know we have a bit over a month left, but sometimes these things take some thinking and planning. So, do you have any New year's Resolutions for your gaming life for 2026? A big project you want to embark on, or a new campaign, or a a character to play, or whatever?

Dungeon Master of None is a good podcast.

Cinematic tools for drama and tension don't really work that well at the table, in my experience. Unless you have really immersion oriented players, it still immediately becomes a gameplay conundrum and everyone looks at their character sheets for a system appropriate solution. I think this is...

My question is simply: who is this for? I can't imagine too many Traveller fans want it in a completely different, class and level based system. And 5E already has a metric ton of sci-fi adaptations out there. Why does this exist?

I think that Communities can work pretty much as is for a post apocalyptic game, although I might be inclined to create something like a Vaultborne and/or a Pastborne (cryonic/hibernation) community. The real question is what to do about classes and domains to shift them from the heroic fantasy...

Traps might be designed to make some sort of sense in the world, but they are really the ultimate expression of D&D being a game, not a world simulator or a story engine. Traps exist for essentially purely gameplay reasons. So the function a given trap serves in the gameplay should determine...

Final first draft of the mutations section: ----------- Random Mutations “Gammaheart” is an attempt at a post apocalyptic science fantasy setting for Daggerheart in the vein of Gamma World, Darwin’s World, Mutant Year Zero and similar properties. This random mutation system is intended to...

What is a "trap" in the context of this question? Does it just refer to intentionally constructed hazards meant to maim or kill those who set them off? In that case, no, traps should not have tells. But if "trap" is a broader term that includes everything from unsafe architecture to natural...

I tend to run it TotM until a big combat, then break out the TacTiles. I also leave mapping to the players. If they don't care, neither do I, but if you gotta run...

"Balance" is important when their is competition. This might not be direct competition -- it might be competition for spotlight time, for example. Imbalance also potentially feels bad for players -- especially if characters are not balanced in a way to allow everyone to shine and contribute...

Oh, I like that one a lot.

Yeah, I am planning on editing the list to get the PA flavor in there. i just wanted something foundational from the SRD.

Hey @Dyson Logos I am looking to use one of your outdoor maps for a convention hexcrawl. Autumnlands is too big for my purposes. Do you have a smaller region or even island that you would recommend?