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In my very first game I made the mistake of basically dictating what I expected a player's character would look like. As soon as the words left my mouth I realized that I crossed a line. I was not quick to forget it.

I'm really interested and intrigued that so many of these examples are in black and white. Do you think the limitation to b&w contributes to why they stood out to you? Or is it more of a side-effect?

What it says on the tin: what art have you seen on the cover or inside of a ttrpg that you feel did an exceptional job of communicating what the game was about? What do you think it was about the art that made it work? My personal favourite is the cover art for i'm sorry did you say street...

I really love the whole idea of this; I think I've looked at a few adventures and thought about running them in different systems, but I think what more typically happens is that I get excited about stealing a setting in general and putting it into a new game.

Hmm, in that case I think I misunderstood your original question, so I don't think the games I had in mind give you what you're looking for.

I'm pretty happy with the Star Wars FFG game in Genesys, but I don't know how it translates to other games. I love the narrative opportunities provided in the mixed outcomes that usually show up on the dice, and I wish the dice were more readily available. I agree with the statements that...

The partial success was certainly a bit of a shock to some of my players, although I think that's partially because the tone of the game we were playing was drastically different from the tone of a different game we'd played prior. I've also GM-ed a Forged in the Dark game where a player's...

Do you mean stories about a past that doesn't have conclusive evidence as to what actually happened? A game where history isn't well-documented / possibly even fabricated?

You've got the right link! So overall, Moth-Light is speculative science fiction, so it establishes a few truths; namely that the protagonists are on an alien planet populated by gigantic, predatory creatures called Moths. However, when you sit down for your Session 0, you choose one of the...

Hmm, that's a good question. Wildsea is inspired by many Forged in the Dark games but it does a lot of things differently. For example, Harm is replaced by Tracks, which are attached to each character Trait, and so you can lose your ability to do things if you take too much Harm to a single...

I really love taking apart Forged in the Dark games and figuring out what makes them tick, kind of like rooting around in the guts of a car. In some games it's kind of difficult for me to see exactly how all of the different pieces of the game interact, but I don't usually have that problem with...

I run a lot of different games but I think the majority of the games that I participate in are Forged in the Dark. A few things I enjoy about it: collaborative world-building. Takes a lot of pressure off of my shoulders and encourages the players to really cement themselves in the world. The...

I've played the Cypher System in three different games/genres, and I know of a range of other genres it's been used for. The core rules should work very well in any game where character training and resources can be expected to predictably make uncertain actions easier, and the XP system...

My Recs: The Wildsea Slugblaster Changeling: The Lost Scion 2e (Origin is ok but I like Hero better)

This is something I really like about Brinkwood. There are some things that are set in stone as part of the game's premise: there are vampires and they are villains and you are going to take them down. The game group can choose from one of three different Vampire Lords as the big bad, which...

What I mean when I say short sessions is a short run of games, somewhere between 4-6 sessions. I do this with games that I want to try out that I don't think I'd get the full experience from playing just a one-shot.

I think I understand what you say when you are talking about creating a world primer that the characters don't read anyways. I'm not a D&D person but what I appreciate about World of Darkness is that it uses real-life cities, so if you're setting it in a place that all the players have lived in...

I'm curious about people's experiences or preferences regarding the setting they choose to play in when they sit down to start a game. Do you usually use the book's setting and tweak it to your liking? Do you create your own setting whole-cloth, on your own, and present it to your players...

It's hard to pick out of all of the Changeling: the Lost books, but I really liked the additional player options in Winter Masques, and it's definitely the book I've pulled off the shelf the most often. There's just a lot of inspiration there.

I'm a fan of The Gaming Table. She's only been reviewing for a year or two but she's covered a lot of games and I like the time she's taking to review some smaller games.