Some great stuff here, thanks for the recommendation!

Great idea, gotta look into those and see if I can find smth fitting, thank you!

Thank you for the tips, will check those out!

Played in a very fun 2E Kingmaker game. Which was mostly dealing with the death of a character last session and some other roleplay things.

Also GMed more of my Traveller game; a great Pirates of Drinax campaign. Also ran the first session of our Call of Cthulhu “Horror on the Orient Express” campaign; which everybody survived, always a nice start to a CoC game. Plus, the 14 year old street urchin shooting down a zombie was great fun.

My group just had to retreat in our last 2E session yesterday. Got ambushed at night, horrible player rolls, plus our GM rolled max damage 90% of the time. After two rounds we had to run and leave the fighter to die to avoid a TPK.

For a quick one-shot to test out the system, most of my players will just skim the rules, and that’ll be enough. But if I run a long-term campaign I expect my players to have a basic grasp of the rules, but most importantly know how their characters rules works.

I will happily explain and help players get started. But if they ask me for 100th time which die to roll; don’t know how their character works; or similar basic things, I will get pissed at some point and ask them to please learn the game we’re playing.

You don’t need to know every single rule, but a basic grasp of them is just the bare minimum or I will kick them out of the game at some point. This hasn’t happened to me yet, all my players are very good at picking up new systems.

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