The Gaming Den

This has already been mentioned, but images that were embedded directly into their post using a data URI aren't being rendered correctly. (For example, the second image in this post .) I bring it up again because I wrote a quick little userscript that works around the problem locally - it might come...

The board game Spirit Island comes to mind. Every power card is either "fast" or "slow", with all fast powers taking effect before the invaders act and all slow powers taking effect afterwards. The specific order of same-speed powers being resolved is up to the players, since it'...

If you go through the glowing, misty archway: any character passing through the portal will enter a 10' x 10' room where their sex and alignment are reversed by a terrible curse [...] Re-entering the archway will restore original alignment, but 1-6 hit points of damage will be sustained. Going back...

Sir Aubergine wrote:We're both lurkers then. Clearly I was "welcoming" them to active engagement.

Hehe, yeah, I mostly tend to lurk here so. Fair enough!

That is, if you want the protagonists to have modern tech and iPhones and shit, then you want 'present day, present time' and if you want the player characters to be unironically using non-magical swords as a primary weapon you want to set things any time before 1836. If you want the players to hav...

SIGMATA is a superhero RPG game set in an alternate history pseudo-cyberpunk 1980s USA where Neo-Nazis managed to take control of mainstream American society and the PCs are part of an underground resistance movement fighting against them. There's a secret radio signal which broadcasts randomly, gi...

What about this: In the "Acting under Fire" move and derivatives, the player comes up with the cost or complication ? And the MC says if it's reasonable or else asks for another one. So, say, the player wants to open that lock while enemies are closing in, and rolls a 7-9. Then he suggest...

That just incentivizes inaction. If doing anything contributes fractionally to the doom track, then the correct course of action is to do nothing . And that's the fucking bane and end of a cooperative storytelling game. Good point. We're essentially getting 4e skill challenges if any and all failed...

You would end up with a bazillion moves each covering a different situation, and lose the engine appeal of frontloaded simplicity. If simplicity's the main goal, there are a range of systems that are even simpler and have far fewer of these problems. Fate, Risus, and especially Munchausen are all l...

How are logically inconsistent wishes resolved? Do they cancel out and have no effect? Does one take precedence over the other? Or does the planet just vanish in a puff of logic?

Do you have a better way to express "apparently only cis men write adventure games" with the same derisive sentiment? Nothing comes to mind unfortunately. :/ The existing line can be clarified to eliminate the cisnormativity by actually including the word "cis", or saying games ...

Since the MC never rolls any dice, they can only make a move when the player has met the conditions. If this were strictly true, that'd probably help improve player agency by forcing the MC to be purely reactive. Unfortunately, in AW it's not. The rules are as follows: However, when a player’s char...

It accomplishes this by assigning actual pre-defined outcomes to your moves. Take the basic combat move, Reach Heaven Through Violence: Combat moves are usually like that by default, though. How is the Act under Pressure of Broken Worlds ? I hate to agree with someone who is obviously silva, but th...

Cissexism isn't a thing, just like reverse racism isn't a thing. You can be prejudiced against cis or white people, but they created the institutions that benefit them and oppress non-cis/white people, thus -isms like sexism and racism don't apply. No, no, cissexism isn't prejudice against cis peop...

I'm not surprised people are clicking on this with the expectation that gamer guys are continuing to be horrible people online. I was basically expecting discussion of RPGs made by women, with a frustrating dose of pointless cissexism at the beginning, which is pretty much exactly what I got. The r...

The second issue is the Bears themselves. The idea that the MC doesn't plan anything and just throws in whatever is on the top of his head means that choices don't matter even if you change the structure and the examples such that your die rolls do. If the thing on the top of the MC's head is a Bea...

This thread's subject line is… weird, especially when trans people are being discussed. Huh.

So I've read most of the Bearworld threads on here and agree that as written, Apocalypse World is an MC powertrip with zero player agency. Since I thrive on solving pointless challenges, I'm wondering how the ruleset could minimally be changed to introduce a decent amount of agency and make the game...