Work got a bit more busy and I joined a forum RP that I can get on at work. I couldn't join in conversations here cause I had to go in and out so much.
@Aaron what are the games you'll be playing? I've done some PBF RPing in my time and I'm curious if it works out for you (I found lack of discipline between the GM nad players leads to a decline in activity that's hard to combat)
It's an entire world. Main plot right now is one of the leaders of the nation of Alris is being controlled by a deity-like being who wants total control of everything.
Everyone wants to save the person (Alcione) but the being is also keeping her alive so removing her would kill Alcione.
Oh, nice! I'm down to one game myself. Exalted is in hold for a while so the GM can prep. He's not too familiar with the region we're in and also just feels he needs to get things together a bit more.
It's been totally fun for me, but I definitely understand not feeling like you have enough to fall back on.
anyone got any good suggestions for a sci-fi style map maker
I need to throw together maps for my edge of the empire campaign and all my D&D tools and resources only work for wilderness areas, I need tiles or terrain for urban landscapes and ships and whatnot
@Polyducks I'm with you on that one. A year ago I was running a 2e and an ODD, playing in a 5e and a Traveller; today I'm running three 5e and playing in another. I miss all of my non-5e and wish I were at least seeing some come across the bow here.
@trogdor I'm with you on that one. I never understood the appeal of OSR and I find early DnD editions quite difficult to enjoy. I respect people who play it, but it's probably not my pair of shoes.
@trogdor There were things about it I really liked. Mind you, I was a teen-ager, and had very few people to play with. (My older brothers and their friends had gone off to college, and I couldn't seem to get my friends past the M:tG hurdle.) So it was a great system for getting ready to play, and prepping to play, and fantasizing about playing.
(Also, it was the first edition printed in color. Those two-tone tables! Genius!)
(The grey and white tables of 1e just didn't compare...)
Looking back I really appreciate that 2e taught me to build a game. D&D became not just about building characters, adventures, settings, but about building the rules by which that would all happen. I see that shelf of PHBR and DMGR books as a graduate class in game design, not as a menu.
Sometime during the weeks of wrangling over the rules-as-written tag it occurred to me that, I am pretty sure, we've fallen into a fundamental error that may be the cause of all the problems:
Tags aren't for sending encoded signals to answer-writers
That's the job of the question body itself, o...
@TheOracle @SevenSidedDie About the only thing I can say to improve this is, maybe link to help and previous metas to support various assertions and provide useful context.
@BESW Yes, it's pretty link-bare. I'll return to it when real life permits to add some of the context links, like related metas and some of the examples of posts that have benefitted.
@SevenSidedDie Thanks! I think constantly linking to context, even/especially stuff folks "should already know," is one way we can help raise moderation awareness.
Sometime during the weeks of wrangling over the rules-as-written tag it occurred to me that, I am pretty sure, we've fallen into a fundamental error that may be the cause of all the problems:
Tags aren't for sending encoded signals to answer-writers
That's the job of the question body itself, o...
