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Has anyone played it? Has anyone used the Mirkwood Campaign? What did you think of it? Good? Bad? Playable? Unplayable? House rules? Mods? Opinions? I am actually thinking of doing some 5e D&D as other games have withered on the vine and I am really not a fan of vanilla D&D but I think (after...

Somehow, you acquired the rights to Star Wars. However, one of the stipulations of the deal is that you must reboot the franchise. The original movies, the Legends EU, all the Disney Wars stuff, it's all in the past. It's your Star Wars universe now. What is your reboot like? What's changed...

What's the difference between Traveller and Cepheus? In your opinion, which system is better and why? What should I use to run my shiny new copy of 2300AD? Any other Traveller tips or advice would be appreciated as I have heard about it but never played or really read it. I know PCs don't get...

I was just curious as to what everyone has for favorite systems. Mine is Mythras! Also I love Mouse Guard, Burning Wheel, and while I haven't played it, Torchbearer looks like it would be super awesome fun. Also I kind of dig Marvel Heroic Roleplaying thought it is kind of fiddly for my...

So I don't prepare plots, or adventures, or stories, or scenes, or anything for the PCs to encounter in advance. What I do is come up with stuff on the fly as the game is being played. I do have a world that the PCs adventure in, sometimes a published setting, such as the Forgotten Realms or...

Maybe it's the oldness, or maybe just a lack of imagination, but I no longer find the fantastical all that fantastic. I tire of the endless additions of strange PCs and worlds where magic is commonplace. Give me humans struggling with the problems mere mortals face. Give me PCs that are...

So far I have played several of the COIN series by GMT solo, as well as Where There Is Discord: War in the South Atlantic. Anyone have any suggestions as to the next solo wargame I should try?

Seriously, any mechanic that allows a GM or Player to re-roll a failed roll needs to go the way of the dodo! Player "I shoot the baddie!" GM "Roll shooty dice!" Player rolls "I missed!...crap, I missed, how did I miss tha-" GM "The bad guy points and laughs at you! He shouts at his henchm-"...