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A group i am loosely associated with just threw a “rpg day open game session” with probably 30 people between 20-30 with maybe a few old timers at under 35. I ran a oneshot of paranoia. We had 2 dms who prepped one shots for pathfinder and 5e, willing to run either or. We also had a dm run his home ...

Why are fey chaotic? Heres my stab at justifying it. all fey love randomness, and hate civilization. They would much rather be in the woods doing whatever, or breaking into town and playing pranks than any of that stuffy civilized stuff. The problem? All fey have one rule or law by which they must a...

To save you effort, all boat feats suck and most sailing is governed by dm handwavery and dc +\- 15 prof sailor checks. Maybe throw in a balance checj now and again. Tell someone to burn a few ranks and move on.

Trill, asking the gm to decide who roleplays good and who roleplays bad results in heavy bias everytime, and very quickly just becomes about blowjob skills. If you put the rules down on paper and give guidelines at least you can point to something and call the guy a cheater when he says you didnt us...

Someone else needs to buy the IP for 6e. Hasbro just announced a movie for 2021. I think its pretty clear they told mearls to do whatever and not piss anyone off too much. Ip wont be sold until the movie bombs hard. If it does even just ok you’ll probably get a 6e but mearls most likely will still ...

I used to live in rural md and know some hunting laws from that. You can almost never hunt on private property without express permission of the owner. Imagine if you were sitting on your porch and some guy drives up and shoots some animal on your yard. How did they know you werent raising it? If on...

Most wargames do this. They measure distances with a rules and inches.

*edit well now after your edits i look illiterate.

did some charting and research into gem prices. Outside of the biased nature of gem dealers basically working off the barter system with prices purposefully obscured and made up anyway, I found some stuff that was helpful https://gemval.com/chart.php https://www.gempundit.com/gemstones for pricing i...

They are standing up forums again. https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums

Dont go threadshit or anything but i thought it was a suprising turn of events considering they hardly put out books nowadays.

Somehow it has 100k+ members, so i assume they imported accounts from something to pad it out?

He got back to me with mole or ailquat, and then said they just sell by weight. Modern alchemy is mostly gasses though. Leaning much more towards listing in values in a Made Up Unit. Then giving each gemstone a value in muu. Magic swords are 18 muu. You have 45 carats in rubies and 1 carat of ruby i...

TLDR - I think my reason to move from gold to gems is simply weight. Gold beats calorie because a coin is 1/10lb and 10 pumpkins is stupid. Gem beats gold because 5 diamonds fit on my ring, and 10 wheelbarrows of gold is stupid. Dreams beat gems because a single vial beats 10 wheelbarrows of emerald...

Thanks for the discussion. Helps me narrow in on what i am looking to do. More context which might help. The gem/currency is intended to tie into what are essentially power sources for schools of magic. So its probably more like industrial usage might be a good model to steal From. So they probably ...

I'm trying to come up with a good currency based on gemstones. Specifically, I need a unit of measurement that can be tied into the value of the gemstone, so I can say "This +3 sword, it costs 4 carats". I'd prefer not to use a fantasy made up word people will forget, and I'd also prefer n...

4e put a ton of playable races in the monster manual as well. So it didnt really even win in terms of "all races in one place". 3e scattered in the mm next to or as part of monster stats. So i can search for kobold and then play one. It also has them in the phb. 4e put them in the back. So...

3 orc generations ago there was a might orc warlord. A while back some adventurers shut down his might army. Now its a desolate warzone full of scattered orc tribes all vying for dominance. The orc warlord had a bunch of sweet stuff in his castles. The pcs are after it for whatever reason. (Pay/glor...

Human/elf/dwarf/totally not hobbits

Then you probably get orcs

From here id say you probably get
Angelman, demonman, treeman, catgirl, robot, overly large strong guy, goblin

Then youve got the stuff that isnt suprising
Birdman, bugperson, centaur, elemental

Id assume a professional gm would probably have a stable of 5-6 adventures that they prepped for once and reuse the material between the game they run for me on fridays and the game they run for voss on saturday. It sounds like the op wants to build a stable of gms who can go work him. If so, id ass...

I couldnt find a way to make it clear, but id give someone 20$ for my portion of a 6+ hour session. Over 4-5 players thats 80-100$ for a nights work. Not amazing, but certainly worth talking about to many people. Id go to a shop or place assuming random people couldnt interrupt. Id also host out of ...

For what its worth, i didnt think you were racist in the first post. I said "wow that comes off as pointlessly shitty to minorities and racist, what gives?" Youre stupid non responses after that made me realize the reason was simply to be pointlessly shitty to a minority.

This post is not meant as an advertisement but if you want to actually buy one of my games, don't let me stop you. This isnt an ad, but you link to the drive through rpgs for all of the things you are selling and ask for thoughts on it? What is the purpose of this thread outside of advertising? Thr...

I didn't think I was raging that hard. Just pointing out that your desire to build an RPG based on a licensed property, but removing the minorities from it comes off pretty racist. Especially when someone obviously went out of their way to include POCs in the property to begin with. Your answer to t...

Anyway. I want an RPG that's just like that, only without singing, or dancing, or Alexander Hamilton being mandatorily Hispanic and Aaron Burr being mandatorily black. That seems randomly exclusionary? Any reasons its whites only? 12. System I really want to use Savage Worlds for this, primarily as...

I know a guy who goes to con on the cobb every year. From his description it sounds like ~30 people playing super rules light games (and lots of low life, which seems like the worst) in a library. Is that inaccurate?

I found out last month my group of ~11 years has been using components for plane shift. That's weird, because you also found that out October of last year . What's up with the deja vu? poor sense of time? I dunno. Apparently it was 8 months ago, not as recent as i thought. or i/we keep forgetting.

I found out last month my group of ~11 years has been using components for plane shift. Apparently we are supposed to have a uniquely tuned fork for each plane, and it can only be purchased on that plane and created by some ritual thats totally in an obscure splatbook i can't remember right now. It ...