26+6=1

What do you mean capitalism WAS a misstake? Did I miss a memo?

The chosen one trope hands down all the time. I would love to get through Wheel of Time but I cannot stand chosen

That series I have put down so many times. Having a “hero” protagonist that is essentially unkillable (because they are the title character) I don’t mind, Conan for example. We all know Conan won’t die because there is always another story about him. But he is not fated for anything, no grand destiny he has to achieve or the cosmos suffers.

Second is also another that has been touched upon - the goodness of divine authority. Especially if it is light flavored. And nobles divine right to rule set as a standard of good etc. Give me stories of folks fecking up the system and creating their own anarchistic communities while continuing to feck up the system.

Love the addition of “again”.

I mean if you don’t want your yacht sunk then don’t sail it where orcas sink yachts. Sorry but actually not sorry for the casual victimblaming.

I would have the top level tag “Rulebook” and put “Core Rulebook” as a sub-tag. Under Rulebook also have “Player Handbook”, “GM handbook” and “Splatbook”. Keep the rules together.

Also tags for your dominant systems (ex DnD, PbtA) including “System Agnostic”. Perhaps add subtags “Pre-made” and “Generators” under “Setting”. Publisher tags? Language? Decade/year of release? Have played?

Don’t forget about their “Designing the Game” playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTsnSjGlraRNXpks2YP-_aOqIoSMT0m8T

Apocalypse World. It is my go to recommendation to GMs but would be pretty much as useful to players as well. Take the GM principle (rule) of Ask questions and Use the answers. Equally important to players. It has its special tone that can be off putting but do give it a shot.

So what you saying is for fantasy stuff just get BG3 for the character editor? If so I totally agree.

My number one to three goto is image searches. Wild searches and then follow similar images around. Believe it or not but pinterest is really good for this. Forth is that I have managed to scoop up some character art creation skills. But it is very simple art. Essentially I found a guide (linked below) on how to make art similar to that from the webcomic Order of the Stick. So essentially fancy stick figures. They are vector art so it is easy to customize and fine tune the character to you liking.

http://www.trazoi.net/tutorials/inkscape/oots/

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?333488-OOTS-Style-Tutorial

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?8742-Guide-to-Making-Avatars-with-Adobe-Illustrator

Lastly before I forget. Collages are awesome for character mood but having one default image is very useful, especially if something is needed for token art. Also if you find someone’s art make sure to bring their watermark along. May look out of place but do give credit where credit is due. In Roll20 and similar I use the first line of character’s bio to link to the artist (if I’ve found them).

Fil (fermented/soured milk) and musli in my opinion cannot be beaten. Get bowl, open fridge to get fil, pour fil into bowl, get muesli, add that and you are done. Pretty unprocessed, plenty of fiber and (depending on variety) lots of good bacteria. Cleaning up is also quick, water and a few swirls with the brush. Making coffee takes longer than chomping down on a bowl of fil and muesli.

Larger and/or gamey games 1€/h. Here I put games such as the Tomb Raiders, cRPGs etc.

Narrative experiences 5€/h. Stray Gods and other high quality intense experiences. Often short and with limited replayability. Like seeing a movie a second time.

Have a look at GOG’s library. Many are older but have been fixed for modern systems, patches and fixes already applied etc. Linux version not uncommon. Best part is that most are without DRM (wink-wink)

It’s a good technique but one that can be abused. As most techniques. Using it as a tool to funnel the group into the content that has been prepared regardless of group strategies is one of the worst. In such cases I’d be much happier and excited if the GM comes out and says only the ogre path is prepared.

I would also like to divide the quantum ogre into two parts - the quantum obstacle and the quantum reward. Quantum obstacle being that regardless of path A or B the same encounter will happen, like a group of ogre bandits. The quantum reward being that regardless of path the same reward waits for them. Like they went after the ogre warcamp instead of the orcs’ and found leads to the greater conspiracy. Same leads that would have been in the orc camp. The quantum reward I love to use as it keeps the game going forward, as each (equal) path leads to the same rewards there is no need to do multiple.

Because it hasn’t been posted yet…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

So you are saying that isn’t already the case?

Considering it’s the norm when you aren’t doing something genre typical to take two ir more genres and just smoish the names together. This way you get things like blackened death metal (black plus death) or epic gothic power metal (take a guess). Now smoosh those teo examples together and you get something like blackened gothic melodic death metal. See that there, now we get into the transformative properties of metal subgenres. Death metal with a bit more melody and structure, which power metal has in spades, becomes melodic death metal.

Fun isn’t it? Also I may have bullshitted together half of the above. But it is a real thing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6WYhOHRmDs

Funeral Doom Metal is too occupied walloping in a blacked pit of despair to join the chat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kht7EH3PjGw

Starting up the first D&D game is the hardest game to start, especially if one isn’t used to nomenclature in the hobby. How obvious is it that a “one-shot” is a scenario made to be played and completed within a single session? This time and age though there are so many resources out there that is easy to get that foot in the door.

That said D&D is a hard system to get started with. You mention it yourself - maps, foes, encounters etc. It can easily become overwhelming. And the system doesn’t do any favours in this department as it between the lines urges towards perfection. If you have the time I can recommend you to read (the GM chapter of) Apocalypse World. It has its special tone but it is so good. Really help me to get out of “prep hell” and to embrace Play to Find Out.

Two GM toolkits I also would love to recommend you, and both are free, are Kevin Crawford’s “Worlds Without Numbers” and Shawn Tomkin’s “Ironsworn”. While they are full, playable and great systems they contain so many tables for inspiration and use. Especially love Crawford’s One-Roll tables.

As I see it cross-post away and with glee. I just wish there was some way to follow a cross-post to the original post or the cross posts directing you to that. Because with plenty of cross-posts the comments are being sooooo split. So it is a balance act - ten posts with one comment each or one post with eight?

(numbers taken out of arse)

I use an Endeavour OS. So technically…

I use Arch BTW