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Herein will be the play and record of a solo (1 player, 1 gamemaster) Fiction First, Story Now, No Myth 4E D&D game between myself (as GM) and @Nephis . We will partake of many standard Heroic Fantasy tropes and themes, including many classic D&Disms, but nothing is canonical until it shows up...

For years, I've had my preferences set to 20 posts per page (instead of the default 10), but now it's displaying 10 per page and I can't find where in Preferences (or elsewhere in Settings) to change it. What am I missing? Thanks!

I remember reading an excellent article (I think by one of the "big" theorists of indie gaming, maybe Ron Edwards or Vincent Baker?) on different degrees of Story Now gameplay, including using published settings as a loose baseline for play, but I can't seem to locate it among my bookmarks, and...

I ran a game of Dungeon World for friends visiting from out of town last weekend. The participants: my wife (@Nephis here), a seasoned gamer with many years of experience with most iterations of D&D, DW, and Blades in the Dark; my gaming-curious friend, whose only previous exposure was smoking...

Howdy! A friend is looking to draw his two boys (15 and a precocious 9) away from screen time with an RPG he can play with them. He stressed simplicity as a major criterion, by which I think he means a short rules set, few and simple mechanics, and little game prep. He has little experience with...

Recently, I began GMing a single-player Dungeon World game, wherein my wife plays a Svirfneblin Ranger. I think it may prove useful to present an actual play write up of our game, focusing on GM moves and framing and the snowballing effect of PC moves, since Dungeon World gets some attention on...

The Bonds component of Dungeon World roots characters to each other in meaningful ways reflective of the fiction and provides a mechanical input to the game in the form of XP marked whenever one is resolved. Though I reckon it's trivially easy to just remove Bonds in a game with a single...

Folks, recently my wife and I moved and we're looking to fill the resultant gaming gap (not much interested in remote gaming) with a solo game for a system we've not yet played but have great interest in: Dungeon World. We're familiar and enthusiastic about the precepts of collaborative and...

In short, I wish to reflect the dangers of travel in a "Points of Light" setting in early Heroic tier via the Skill Challenge mechanic and not simply color. Even though the PCs travel along a road, and so there is little to no chance of getting lost, when they must spend the night or extended...

The following is a hack of the Injury Deck optional rules in Dungeon 204 and the Disease track subsystem. It is intended as a fun way to implement the lasting effects of a brutal wound received from an early story BBEG. The Player is on board with the idea, but I'm eager to have a few more eyes...

... or Many Brains are better than one. The scenario--a PC has been granted a boon from her goddess Sehanine (avowed enemy of Lolth) in return for a geas: put an end to the abduction and enforced slavery of wood elves a band of surface drow, some two dozen miscreants, cut off from their...

I've never been fully satisfied by 4E's loose (or, at the other extreme, extremely prescribed) framework for the combat scene, with regard to grid position and also surprise elements, and so I think a scene-framing iteration of the game might benefit from Blades in the Dark's Engagement roll...

I'm looking (well) ahead at a player's wishlist for her Warlock of the Raven Queen, and the Shroud of Ravens is a wonderfully flavorful item that, unfortunately, lacks a certain oomph. Shroud of Ravens Level 13+ Uncommon Pulling this cloak's black hood over your head transforms you into a...

Just a quick inquiry to see if anyone hereabouts has played the Swords & Sorcery hack of Blades in the Dark called Blades Against Darkness and, if so, what your impressions are.

At the end of our last session, the BBEG escaped the PCs' clutches, teleporting into a deep cistern across the chamber and being dragged along the current of the underground stream feeding the cistern. Shortly thereafter, the PCs escaped through this same underground waterway as the ruins they...

Folks, I'm drafting a preplay "session zero" player survey to establish collectively play desiderata for all potential participants. Currently, this survey will ask players to rate each category as an area of High, Medium, or Low interest. I'm looking to fill out the survey with other likely...

I hate hate hate the interface of the mobile settings for Android. In the past, I figured out a way to default to the desktop settings but ever since I cleared my cache on my phone recently, I must manually convert to desktop interface each time I visit the site (assuming, as I do, that I don't...

Alraune, a frequent CharOp poster on the old WotC boards, once posted a list of house rules from a home game, which included this: Enhancement Bonuses: The enhancement bonus of the weapon or implement used for an attack is added to its damage roll once for each die of damage in the base roll...

I've been considering adopting the following house rule, cribbed from Alcestis on the old WotC forums: "Enhancement Bonuses: The enhancement bonus of the weapon or implement used for an attack is added to its damage roll once for each die of damage in the base roll. This rule applies only to...

Say your GM was generous and, considering the relatively high entry requirement for a Ranger, allowed the player to swap out the Healer's Lore feature of Divine Healer for Battle Cleric's Lore. Is there a way to get the CB to add a Shield Bonus to AC to reflect this? Thanks!