Before I get into this day, I’m going to lightning-round tackle the previous three: Day 19 (best writing): Unsure. Depends on what you mean. I’ve seen 400+ page books that fail to sufficiently explain the game, and I’ve seen 10ish page “games” that I either have no desire to play or are at best good […]
I thought this was going to be a tricky one, because a long time ago, while we were still playing 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, there was a period where I bought a bunch of games just to see what was up. The list included but was not limited to: CthulhuTech, Legends of Anglerre, Call of Cthulhu […]
Right now that would obviously be Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book, because I specifically designed it to do everything I wanted it to do (which is what I assume is the goal of most game designers), but who knows there might be things that crop up in the future that I’ll want to add/change/remove. Otherwise there aren’t […]
As with what games are good for two-hour sessions and for about 10 sessions in total, I think a lot of RPGs work well enough for open-ended campaign play. Off the top of my head any of the D&Ds (and by association Black Book), Dungeon World, WEG Star Wars (though I think the d20 versions would […]
The Short Answer:Back when I ran the original A Sundered World campaign, I barely did any planning at all: I mostly made up shit as we went in response to what the players did. The players said it was the best campaign they ever played in, so from then on I ran games doing as little […]
If we have to go with core games (and not supplements, settings, adventures and the like), then 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. A lot of the art from 3rd and 4th Edition (while perhaps usually more…I dunno, technically proficient?) is characters standing around, maybe doing something (like aiming a bow, picking a lock, or attacking […]
I’ve found that far too often people for whatever reason (money, popularity, the “status” of being a reviewer that gets free shit, friends of the creator, creator is backing their Patreon, etc) lie, exaggerate (I groan every time I see a game described as amazing/excellent/inspiring), and/or are so biased that they barely mention anything bad […]
Melissa and I actually have only really done 2-hour sessions for the past few years, and while it’s primarily been Dungeon World or the Black Book (with the occasional playtest session for other games) I think a lot of games would work just fine: just plan out however many rooms/areas/encounters you think your group could reasonably tackle […]
Sounds like the perfect time to playtest something extensively, such as: A necropolis urban megadungeon. City was wiped out by a botched necro-nuke, so all the buildings are more or less still there (it’s taken awhile for the necrotic radiation to cool down, so some have started fallen apart due to lack of maintenance). City […]
To keep things a bit simpler, I’m going to limit my options to games I actually own and/or have played. In alphabetical order… Dungeons & Delvers (both Black Book and the kids’ version): you get a handful of various characters confronting a dragon (but it could have also been another monster or even group of monsters). Black […]
Points of Light 