Hard rec for BFRPG, big time for me. If you want to learn the basics of D&D without spending too much money on official D&D (or struggling to find older versions in good contidion), this is a fantastic option for the PDF’s.

Fair enough!

I run it mostly as background from my fire stick if im not streaming something else as background.

It’s a good video. Matt Colville (design director) even recommended it in his video. I’ve been following the game for several years. It’s got a lot of cool stuff. I’ve convinced some friends to try it out next week.

Were you expecting a response in the absolute maximum 6 hours between me posting this video and you leaving your comment? No, but I was expecting a response in the several months since I filled out their web contact form (not the email address you linked).

You’re presumably not an FLGS though, so you wouldn’t be the intended audience to learn that. I am a flgs owner. So I am the intended audience. Like, what would you expect, a page on their website that says “oh btw, we also support local game stores”? Yes, a lot of companies have a retailer page, especially companies that do not use a distributor. It directs retailers to contact their retail support, or lists their distributors, or has a link to their retailer web shop. Where did you even find the information that you based your first comment on? No retailer page. No retailer level on their crowd funding. No products in distribution. No contact info for retailers. No response to web form inquiring about retailer sales. [image: image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.catbox.moe%2F6r4x80.png]

absolutely. The hardest thing about using youtube now is the thumbnail cringe and the constant asking you to log in.

Nothing on their website, nothing in their backer kit for retailers, not in distribution. I should not have to go to Reddit to find out if they support flgs or not.

Looks like they only sell direct and do not support flgs, hard pass.

If you try to make a system that generalizes to any context, it will never be deep enough to truly embrace any context.

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My only criticism might be this line OK, the dungeon descriptions aren’t as tactile or parsable as what the OSR standard has established. I know earlier the author said they come from more of the OSR space, but I think this line might lend itself to being misinterpereted that the TOR2e supplement is trying to be for an OSR style game and has come up somewhat short. Otherwise, good writeup.

Sounds like you might need to explain that NPCs in TTRPGs aren't like NPCs in video games. They're not ambulatory signboards, but non-player *characters*, emphasis on character.

Same. Currently work life is busy and I feel heavily deprived. If things go to plan, I will be working on some interesting projects in December/January, but till then I suffer.

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it’s called Vain Pirates of the Seven Seas, it’s a GMless One Page ttRPG about Pirates and their accessories. With each accessory lost comes an impairment, making the game quite fun (we laughed a lot playtesting it). It’s free, and if you like it, feel free to let me know, it would make my day. Enjoy!

In a campaign I’m in, my party had to investigate a region outside of a city that was giving off malicious vibes. We ended up finding the source of the vibes and discovered that a member of the city’s 5 person ruling council is collaborating with mindflayers to sacrifice the city. The party makes its way back to the city and wants to figure out how to present that information while still remaining credible. It really didn’t help that we accidentally killed the captain of the guard who was sent with us to investigate (some of us rolled critical failures on attack rolls while fighting earth elementals and ended up hitting him for a lot of damage instead, and then he got crushed by a rolling boulder trap). When we went in front of the council and other townfolk to present our findings, we hit an additional snag when we discovered that we need to present our findings while standing in a circle that allows the compromised council member to read our minds. Our paladin had a bright idea; she put the thought of the treachery we uncovered at the front of her mind and cast Command at the evil council member with the word “confess”. The councilor failed his saving throw, but the DM didn’t want us to get out of it that easily. The dramatic order captured everyone’s attention and someone asked the council member what he had to say. “I… I… I… sometimes wear women’s underwear”. While surprising to the townsfolk, it was ultimately irrelevant to the them, and the council quickly (albeit not incorrectly) pinned the death of the guard captain on us. The evil council member got to cover his ass while putting heat on the party and guards started swarming the room to arrest us. All but one of the party members managed to get away, and there was a several week period of time where the one who got caught was separated from the party and had to roleplay a jailbreak.

My players had spent months finding the combination for a fortified vault door, and finally return to the cave they orignally found the door. Just as the champion begins entering the combination, the wizard realized the party had since leveled a few times, and disintegrate was in her exploration shortlist of prepared spells nobody was happy about that in the moment, hehe

it was a very weird one shot campaign in the style of magicthenoah (if that rings a bell); so very hastly written and not very serious. In my mind it had to do something with someone getting angry and wishing for something unclear regarding him never listening and it ended badly; but this is of course super vague ^^