TheGreatDarkness @ TheGreatDarkness @ttrpg.network Posts 61Comments 134Joined 2 yr. ago
I started with an action opening, so like a semi-full score, but it went well. Then we did downtime and next plot hooks. Honestly, I see why you could find it stressful, it relies on improvising a lot, but it's also somehow less stressful for me compared to knowing I have prep work to do before my d&d game. I can actually see myself running two campaigns if one is Blades and other is something more prep-heavy like d&d. I'll if I have the same opinion after few more sessions. I hope I do.
Two experienced players, two newcomers, my first tame with the game. It went fine, everyone seemed to have fun. I opted on throwing the players into a more action opening, I was amazed how their own rolls filled in the time to make situation take half of a session and built the tension and pressure by themselves. Did downtime activities, including two starting long term projects, and later threw in some plot hooks. Next session we will begin on selecting next score. We would have done that this time, but my Internet crashed.
Take that to person who told me to play other games then, when I've said I play Blades, said it doesn't count and told me to play Pathfinder.
See my other comment, it was a person trying to get me to play pathfinder who started with "play other rpgs" and then said Blades "doesn't count".
I had someone tell me to play another game, but when I told him I play Blades he told me it doesn't count and he meant....older editions of D&D and Pathfinder.
This is not what you have said. you've said "I bet you, to just play another system" and when I've said I do, you've backtracked to claim you meant something d&d derivative". You don't know what games I played. I played AD&D 2e, I played D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1e. In fact, I've run my first campaign in Pathfinder 1e and HATED that system. I've also run B/X to my players. I'm running in 5e right now, I won't switch for a flimsy reason. And I'm never running PF1e again. I don't think you get how shitty it is to basically say I'm too stupid to know other games exist because I like homebrew. You couldn't be more condescending if you tried.
I'm already running Blades in the Dark for another group, first session in two days. Wish me luck ;)
I still want to throw crazy homebrew shit at my d&d group.
They both need a hug
Yesss
I got a feeling from preparing my game that Blades is more intimidating that actually hard. At first it seems complex but more and more I read, the more at peace I become about the rules.
Reminds me of a short story I once read in a Polish sci-fi and fantasy magazine, where a portal to fantasy world opened and Elves conquered Eastern Europe and I think Russia. At one point narrator tells us once Elves discovered humans made satelites, they made their own. Our of wood covered in magic runes, then coated with mithral. I don't recall how they got it in space but narrator tells us once it began orbiting the Earth and SENDING SIGNALS several members of NASA had to be instituionalized.
I think the response is an edit, in the original Raph stays quiet.
A, kinda ironically for this post, this whole scene happens because Raphael is against Turtles teaming up with Batman because he thinks Batman is a rich guy who fights crime as a hobby and doesn't take it seriously and Batman JUST COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO CHANGE HIS MIND!
I don't know about Peter, but there is a story where Miles gets sucked into fantasy world and becomes basically a rogue with shadow monk dip
Except the rules are written in such way that they render holding breat irrelevant. You may as well write "unless in combat a character can hold their breath. When in combat, you must roll concentration at end of your turn or suffer level of exhaustion. DM may decide to treat particularly dangerous or prolonged situation as combat at their discression". And done, you didn't need to invent new rules just for it, you used an existing system. You could even simplyfy it further and just slap it under concentration rules.
I think it says something that out of old editions B/X is still so well-regarded among old-school fans for being simpler than AD&D. Sadly when I ran it for my players they found it too counter-intuitive. I consider it a personal failiure as a gm to properly represent the system, even though they assure me it was not my fault.
Not on 3.5 per se, but I had years long GM burnout after running my first Pathfinder 1e campaign. Bad memories from it were what actually kept me from giving Pathfinder 2e a chance for a long time.
Does the existence of a whale make it wrong to call an elephant big?
OSR has a vocal minority or reacitonaries giving it bad name. But even among perpetually online, they're a minority. Facebook had two OSR fan groups - one for reactionaries (it's now deleted) and other being very welcoming and progressive. The latter had ten times as many members.
PF2 is probably best game to play shonen protagonists, I'll give it that.