Recent content by Ry

Rather than making new DMs I’m just trying to suggest there are ways WotC’s world-class game designers might lighten the load. So the DMs that we have don’t feel like workaholics to run the game “right” and therefore run more games. Although these responses are giving me an idea for an...

oh yeah, I’ve played apocalypse world, fate, in a wicked age, a bunch of old Forge games, 4 different editions of D&D, some homebrew stuff. There are games that support the GM better and games to support the GM worse, but mostly games expect the GM to be rules expert, social moderator, host...

Do campaigns not fall apart when DMs get overwhelmed by prep anymore?

So is this new edition going to be the one that finally makes things a bit easier for the Dungeon Masters out there?

I have an idea that I just can’t leave alone or get out of my head, so I figure I need to blog about it. This is a baroque concept for a small audience, so I’m hoping that I can get some advice on where to post / what to do with it. 5e is this incredible engine for playing in so many fantasy...

I'm definitely considering other systems, but there's something about how well-supported D&D is that just gives and gives and gives in terms of compatible content.

Even though they’re quite taxing, my take is that exhaustion points have to be at least as far for real psychological trauma as hitpoints are from battlefield wounds. I’m still trying to point at and gamify a boundary, not take them through Apocalypse Now.

Separately, As for other systems, I'm open to suggestions but I'd like suggestions that have a lot of support. I'm a big fan of limiting down from many options to a small set, to customize the rules to a campaign (e.g. imagine a game where only artificers, rogues, rangers, and eldritch knights...

I really appreciate the suggestions so far. I am aware of the exhaustion death spiral and that's... that's kind of my feelings coming through about violence situations that risk violent death the toll both the above takes on soldiers and survivors In my mind, that's more than the binary where...

It's a gosh-darned horcrux in the original fake latin

The body count in D&D really bums me out, especially when it comes to my players (my kids). The kill count of an adventurer who makes it to level 20 is only one seen by a small number of machine gun operators in modern times. Soldiers who kill in war have high incidence of PTSD and other...

Wow

That’s a cool book, I just picked it up. What lead you to it? Just following Frog God work generally?

I was looking for great random tables, to fall back on when I DM. Stuff beyond the DMG When I search the web the blogs are so many but not grouped or ranked. Even “best of” lists are all over the place. Same for drivethrurpg. But it doesn’t have to be random tables. How do you approach the...