My only fear would be that this turns dnd more into a walled garden.

Currently a big deal on humble bundle! Whole game and addona 14$

I got it but haven’t played yet. Looks greatbtho

Read another game. Free yourself fully from wizords.

13th age is my new dragon game of choice, feels close to home and fresh at the same time!

Man this is the best one in a while

I liked the magic system. I made like a haunted ghost spirit to keep the place we were going to raid up at night, just coming through the ceiling and bleating in the night. It gave me just enough guidance to be really fun for me while seeming super free form as the shaman (I think)

Finding players for the stuff I run, yes. Finding anyone else that invites you to play a game that is not 5e is unreasonably hard.

Here in Germany you can get black eye groups too, and sometimes cthulu, but those are the main ones

I played starforged, I think that’s the same in space. Been meaning to read and run it ever since but you know how it is…

Especially the solo play the intrigues me.
I steal from the roll tables for that for the games though hehe.

Base ironsworn is free BTW as far as I know, for anyone reading

Wicked ones is excellent! I had a lot of fun with it. Have the hardback physical and love the game.

I heard of that recently! Thanks for reminding me

This is great! The is also a kinda fantasy version in we are champion or sth like that. Great game, the one linked especially!

Is fate intended for a certain kind of setting (fantasy, sci-fi etc) or is it more freeform/fits all?

Man I just might! No hope of winning but looks fun

All I can say is: I’ve been trained for academic writing for like 8 years now, and I still struggle to do it without a good template. Formatting in a text editor is it’s very own skillset IMO.

Most important is to make a skeleton, a loose progression of stuff like
1.X
2.Y
2.1 Z

And look at ONLY that for a while and think ‘what do I want to reach each chapter? Why is this chapter here and not earlier/after? What needs to be said before this can make sense, and is the flow of it logical?
what will be the next question on my readers mind, and does this Adress it?’

Also think about who you are writing for. What do you need to explain, and what can you expect as given etc

We had a big fat goose as a quest thing in Fellowship 2e once. The city was separated into trades guilds, and in the area of those that do woodcarving, the goose snuck up on people and honked and made them cut themselves. All the fingerless woodcarvers chipped in to get the party to help.

That was a great day in that campaign. Afterwards, the overlords general and the giants attacked town and destroyed everything, and that encounter was just barely harder than the goose chase. Love that system.

Jesús christ yes. I used to run or play 3-4 or sometimes more days a week, plus work, uni, gym, girlfriend… That is not sustainable for a longer time than maybe half a year

Not every dnd does it wrong. I’m pretty sure 4th Ed had it right. Pathfinder and 13th age are also kinda just editions of dnd, and they both have very tight encounter math!

Just steal the big book of grudges for any setting involving dwarves, up to and including glorantha

Neat imma sell mine

I like the variable turn lengths, that’s a neat system!

I, too, enjoy barbarians of lemuria