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I'm afraid I don't know these terms, so I can't follow you here. Fair points I think, although I don't 100% follow about play styles. I think it's no coincidence that some of the formative early games in the hobby went about it much the way I have been suggesting - by giving players a...

Yup. That is why literally the next sentence I wrote was... - and then talked about some ways around that. I am currently running a game in a setting with scant official setting info, so I am prepping session by session and making it up as I go along, including adding significant NPCs whose...

There is an analogy here with worldbuilding in books or films. No-one expects an audience to plough through chapters of exposition on the setting before getting to the action: a publisher or studio would reject it. The challenge for writers is how to "show don't tell". The challenge for a GM is...

Yes. Well, certainly nobody in our group is a HPL/REH/CAS scholar, but I think plenty of RPG'ers have at least a rough idea of what those writers are about, and that does the job of giving enough context to be getting on with. This is on the money. People care about story first, and story...

Every table sets their own norms of what's considered good form, but I reckon it would be a rare group of players indeed who were always (or even sometimes) up for immersing themselves before play in some incredibly detailed RPG setting in which they had no or little prior interest. I think...

This one "I've got a bad feeling about this..." because one thing I have learned is my preferences in such matters are often not widely shared. Honestly, the ones you've been using more recently are fine.

I want to know because I am older than Darth Vader... eek Fantastic project! FWIW, I liked the sans serif font you were using back in '22.

I'm in my 40s and I strongly prefer Skyrim to Starfield. That said, I would probably prefer a competently-executed Starfield to Skyrim.

...even Chill?? I moved country last year, joined local rpg discord, and offered Hyperborea. I had one possible whom I only ever conversed with over discord. This guy seemed to have a genuine problem grasping the fact that there had been previous editions of D&D. Never did work out what he...

We've gone down the rabbit-hole on lip-reading a bit there. I think the broader point/criticism was not enough thought had gone into adapting the system to the setting. Lip-Reading may or may not be a good example. Any other arguments for or against?

EXAMPLE: 'Ace', a Resistance Grunt, is attempting to interrogate someone. 'Ace' has a COOL stat of 3 and an Interrogate skill of 2, giving him a skill bonus of 5. The Director decides that the target is a tough one to crack and sets the difficulty at Complex, giving it a target number of 11 ...

Count me in 'both' category. I can't absorb info from the screen as well as I can from a printed book (no idea why, but there it is). But PDFs are more practical for actual play. Online, obviously so. I might be running a game IRL in the fairly near future. Even then, I will want pdf's for...

That was interesting. Not to take anything away from what they are doing, but it's basically running neural net machine learning on a machine made of rat neurons rather than a conventional computer. I don't see why this is a game changer - which is to say, I'm still not sure why the rat-neuron...

All right, I'll bite: I call bullshit on this.

Yes. AI output needs reviewed, which is why I don't feel professionally threatened by it. I have found it can be useful especially for junior colleagues in at least suggesting a sensible structure. By the way, what you say made me chuckle as my colleague who is evangelical about AI is a bit...

In my working life, I have found AI can be a useful tool for helping structure a first draft. And that's it. As someone above said, like a slightly smarter search engine. On a different point, to do with visual art especially in RPGs, I think there is an elephant in the room: a lot of it from...

Very late joining this table in the Pub... I'm fortunate that my current players are generally self-policing in this respect and willing to play within their PCs' characteristics. That said, once or twice, the player of the dumbest PC has had smart ideas (kind of involuntarily - you can't...

This game looks amazing. Thanks for sharing. I have been noodling around with the Portuguese empire as a setting, although more the Indo-Pacific than the Atlantic. This is an era where an African guy could end up a samurai (or next door to one anyway). An Abyssianian sorceror, a Sufi mystic, a...

That is not a fair summary of my views. I literally just posted my acknowledgement why a campaign set mainly on a single world would certainly need more detail about that world. There is nothing wrong with having a two-inch-thick binder. Last week I went out and bought lever-arch ring binder...

I can't quote FR or any other RPG material to that level of detail. (I can quote scarily long sections of Alan Partridge and Father Ted.) In answer to your question, because a few carefully-chosen traits, especially where not natural bedfellows, are enough to make the PC-facing setting distinct...