I am all for whatever stirs up more content and discussion that isn’t memes.

It includes a new beautiful character sheet, Lodestar itself - a quick reference guide, and an updated map of Ironlands.

I love this idea. Would have been perfect for my current game, though I have enjoyed the flexibility to adjust things the players don’t know yet. That could still work with this approach but you’d have to be intentional about keeping changes within the same scope / size

I did one of the StartPlaying intro games for Daggerheart and it was a total blast. Even playing with five others who had never played with each other and were all new to the system it was seamless and really fun.

I am looking forward to delving into the Dark Sun book.

In one word: politics. More words from here: Domain-level play is an old term for giving RPG characters political power in the form of ”domains” they control, be those guilds, corporations, or part or all of a sovereign nation. Historically, Dungeons and Dragons campaigns would eventually see the characters having enough wealth and influence to purchase a stronghold, which would give them not only a base of operations but also a parcel of land to see over. Once the characters were officially nobles in this way, a whole new area of storylines could open up, involving courtly intrigue as well as broader politics. At a default level this would insert characters onto a bigger political stage, but it was both possible and for some palatable to start changing the course of politics in the world in which the game took place.

if you’re looking for a higher level, beer and pretzels dungeon for Shadowdark, I’d look no further than Chateau Amongst the Stars.

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“I cast fireball”

DNGN+DRGN. CBR+PNK. People gotta stop giving their games titles that are only distinguishable from major IPs in text, so we can talk about them.

Nice work!

So a friend of mine does a lot more DMing than I do and they asked me if I knew about a digital battle map where they could have movable tokens to keep track of effects, position, terrain, and HP more easily. We talked a bit about how it should function and agreed on this basic functionality: Square grid with the ability to colorize squares to draw terrain, walls, obstacles, etc. It’s 100x100 squares, we agreed that’d be enough. Movable tokens with name, HP, and initiative attributes. A sidebar with an overview of the tokens sorted by their initiative. Automatic handling of effect duration. So if you correctly press “next turn” every time, it should automatically count down the duration of every token’s effects. Save and load the full map state in case a battle is split between sessions or you want to prepare the battlefield beforehand. Tablet support. I incorporated this and thought that maybe some of you might either have recommendations for a system that is better than what I’ve made here, or want to use it too. If you’re interested, you can try it out here: https://illectrility.github.io/mapify/ It’s currently in a state where my friend and I agree it’s all we personally need, so I probably won’t be adding more features in the near future. Edit: I’m aware that it doesn’t properly scale on smartphones. That’s because it’s not intended for smartphone use and I can’t be bothered to implement proper smartphone scaling because it would be huge hassle and neither I nor my friend would use it.

For one powerful, arrogant wizard it’s perfect

Very cool, great map and idea. Thank you!

yeah, it really depends on the group. Some people love learning new stuff. Some people are like absolutely phobic of it. Though I have a half-serious hypothesis: Some players are so bad at rules, the kind of player that asks every week “what do I roll to attack again?”, that you could just change the system without telling them and they wouldn’t notice and do any worse. Though that’s less true for systems that require creative player buy-in like Fate. D&D in the “I move and attack” mode can be phoned in easier, I think.

If you look for acrylic paint sets on Amazon, you’ll find tons of them have reviews testifying whether or not they’re suitable for minis. I’m talking about the artist tube sets, not the pots, here. The key factor in suitability for these is the amount of pigment. The consistency can be changed easily with water.

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I’m running a Lasers & Feelings game over at Every Post is an RPG. Join up if you want to participate in some quickplay (week or so, maybe two) Galaxy Quest/Star Trek shenanigans! It should be a Phase Blast! (ok ok, I’ll see my way out…)

A really fun comparison of some sample hacking/decking/netrunning runs in Shadowrun (1st, 4th, 5th), Cyberpunk (2020, RED), and a couple of systems I’m unfamiliar with. It’s interesting to see the ludic philosophy for each system: Shadowrun seems to value stealth for deckers, meaning cybercombat only occurs when something goes wrong. Cyberpunk seems to expect netrunners to steamroll everything in the system they’re attacking. I have a personal attachment to the Shadowrun style, and I’m trying to figure out how “sneaking” works in Cyberpunk RED. I think the short answer is it doesn’t, and I’ll have to figure out what an alarm means in this system and how it should be triggered.

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