Matthew Andre

A mid 30s lady with her father in the thrift store said "ooo an anime mug! hmm I don't recognize it." I picked it up after to check what it was and my soul got struck by lightning.

But also a 1980 copy of RuneQuest 2nd edition (core rules from the box set). This cover is awesome

A mid 30s lady with her father in the thrift store said "ooo an anime mug! hmm I don't recognize it." I picked it up after to check what it was and my soul got struck by lightning.

And then I went to another thrift store and my friend pulled this from the t-shirt rack. A day in which I get progressively closer to the bottom-most layer of hell

Grimwild was recommended in a reddit thread for somebody asking for OSR-style play, but without the trad mechanics, and I'm so happy! My view of the game has always been it's a representation of the grognard who ran b/x long enough to have their vibes so locked in they don't need the rules anymore.

Like you have your 10,000 hours as a fantasy/D&D expert and you understand hard rules and procedures don't do anything but prevent you from running the game how it needs to be run

Some people say pbta ttrpgs feel too structured and rigid, and I had a thought about why. I don't think it's that actions call for specific moves, but rather that moves often have specific listed consequences/outcomes tied to the specific action and specific character who performed the action.

And we can see this in other FitD games, when players act with a countdown/timer clock running, or a resource clock, or the common advice of making a move off-screen. The action a PC undertakes is not directly tied to the consequence the GM delivers. Playing under that structure is VERY DIFFCULT.

Some people say pbta ttrpgs feel too structured and rigid, and I had a thought about why. I don't think it's that actions call for specific moves, but rather that moves often have specific listed consequences/outcomes tied to the specific action and specific character who performed the action.

Don't worry about tying consequences to specific actions undertaken from that roll. Think about the roll as determining initiative; who gets to do something in the scene. If the player rolls a mixed success, their character succeeds at an action, and now the GM gets their turn to do something.

Some people say pbta ttrpgs feel too structured and rigid, and I had a thought about why. I don't think it's that actions call for specific moves, but rather that moves often have specific listed consequences/outcomes tied to the specific action and specific character who performed the action.

Forged in the Dark games help solve this somewhat by removing the prescribed moves, and thus the prescribed list of consequences attached. However, the position and effect discussion of each move can falsely bring back this framing of specific consequence for a specific PC making an action.

Some people say pbta ttrpgs feel too structured and rigid, and I had a thought about why. I don't think it's that actions call for specific moves, but rather that moves often have specific listed consequences/outcomes tied to the specific action and specific character who performed the action.

Trad games have turn order. A PC may attack an enemy, but on that enemy's turn it can do something entirely unrelated from the action taken against it. One PC may have smashed an enemy with a great hammer, but that enemy may decide to charge the backline to stop the mage from casting.

Wish more people in the ttrpg hobby knew that the greatest work of fantasy literature in our lifetime has its background as an AD&D campaign that later switched to GURPS. GURPS has done one good thing

They switched from AD&D to GURPS because they thought AD&D was too silly after they bought a box set that came with a really non-sensical map. They rarely played entirely by the rules of these games, eschewing anything that got in the way of an interesting narrative.

Wish more people in the ttrpg hobby knew that the greatest work of fantasy literature in our lifetime has its background as an AD&D campaign that later switched to GURPS. GURPS has done one good thing