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I’m working on a genre-agnostic system, but I’ve also got worlds in progress for high fantasy, modern fantasy, and near-future sci-fi campaigns. I’m writing a bare-bones chapter for each genre to introduce the world and intend to provide a few story ideas for groups who want to dive in without necessarily buying the expanded genre-focused books later.

When providing the story hook for a campaign idea…is it better to keep the concept entirely player facing, and let the GM create the full backend, or give just enough backstory to provide a framework for the GM at the risk of giving the players too much info?

Example using DnD’s Rise of Tiamat campaign:

The party enters a village to find it being raided by Cult of the Dragon soldiers. Can the heroes save the villagers? What were the Cultists after?

The Party enters a village to find it being raided by Cult of the Dragon soldiers. Can the heroes stop the cultists before they find what they need to resurrect Tiamat?

While I’m planning on having separate books that provide detailed expositions and campaign concepts for each of the genres my system is focusing on, I’m thinking about adding a chapter introducing each setting in the core rulebook.

One of the genres being included is an urban fantasy world inspired by the Anita Blake and Mercy Thompson books, where vampires, lycanthropes, and other denizens of the night are recognized by the public as existing, with all the upheaval and drama included.

I’m having trouble coming up with a unique title for this chapter. My notes are just called “Dark Earth”, but Dark Earth, Shadowed World, Time of Awakening, or any other off-the-cuff phrases that work come too close to one’s already in other published works.

If anyone can help with an idea , I’d greatly appreciate it.

I love Resolute - so much that I wish it could be watched in a format other than the little 15 minute mini-sides on YouTube. But something that I always thought was funny was out of all the named members of the team, why was Tunnel Rat the one they sent up to deal with the Cobra satellites? Grand Slam, Ace, Ghostrider, and Slip-Stream weren’t available? They had to send the ONE team member whose specialty was in the opposite direction?

So, just rewatched it (thanks to Destro516 for mentioning Tubi) and it’s funny that Duke actually does make a reference to this when he calls Tunnel Rat up.

I'm currently working on the optional rule set for the maintenance, cleaning, and repair of a character's equipment. I am categorizing it across three character-focused levels, with a fourth for when you have to take it to a shop to fix. My levels are:

Light - Requiring no/ minimal tools

Medium - Requiring basic hand tools

Extreme - requiring specialist tools

My issue is that I'm bouncing back and forth on how I want to present the rules. On one hand, Separating the rules by category, with specifics for various items allows you to deal with the degrees of repair in segregated sections. On the other side, grouping the steps by item allows you to focus just on specific gear and ignore anything your character isn't carrying.

First option:

Light - A paragraph explaining how it works

lists of items and what upkeep requirements fit in light

Medium - A paragraph explaining how it works...etc.

Second option:

A paragraph explaining how the rules approach each of the three levels of necessary repairs.

Blades - light, medium, extreme

Bows - light, medium, extreme

Firearms - etc.

Thoughts and preferences?

I'm having some trouble with this because the magazine no longer exists and the sites Chat sends me to no longer have a RoF page active. Any help here is greatly appreciated.

I first read the story from a roommate's magazine in college back in 95. I can't remember the story's name nor the author. I do remember Luis Royo's "Silverglass" painting was opposite the title page, and the story was about a man who was effectively married to the female spirit residing in his sword. He had a title that like "Blade-bound" or "Sword-wed" or something similar. As the story progresses, he becomes resentful of how he’s tied to the sword and seeks to break his bond to it, with very bad results.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Hypnotizing the football team to jump off was a stroke of genius.

I originally wasn’t going to address this in my system, but as I started developing how armor works, I realized that there should be a mechanic that addresses the ability to be trained for how to move in combat while wearing armor. The concept for medium and heavy armor is vicious, but most “light” armor is not much more than gear that’s just thicker and/or stiffer than normal clothes. While there may be a bit of a weight consideration, it doesn’t appear that most forms of light armor would impede movement.

Can anyone provide an argument for how light armor would be restrictive enough to warrant specific training on how to use it?

When I was working for the company that produced Fox and Lionsgate DVD before the Disney buyout, the QA would sometimes have different movies playing on a monitor. On the “Beer for My Horses” disc, there’s a commercial for (I think) a Ford F-150 where a baseball player with the first name Colby is using the various new features of the truck to fight off a group of ninja. I never got the chance to see the full video with sound, and I can’t seem to lock in the keywords needed to find it on YouTube, assuming it’s even there.

Does anyone know the commercial I’m talking about and if there’s a way to watch it online?

I’ve been trying to remember this all day ever since I , for whatever reason, woke up with the line running through my head. I’m using X in place of a single word that I think if I could remember the word, I’d also remember where it’s from.

The speaker is iirc a brutish looking man, and he makes a remark about how if he and the MC do something, then X will happen. The MC gives some flippant reply while describing X in a dismissive manner. The first guy says, “Yes, that’s what X means.”

Incredibly vague, I know, but if anyone can help, I’d appreciate it.

I've been proof-reading my player's guide while at work while I'm trying to create my economic system at home, and today, I came to the Warlock class build in the magic chapters. One of the price options for having a demon patron is to pledge the character's soul to the demon, and I had the thought of what would happen if a demon-bound warlock "found religion" and died while on a quest for redemption.

I'm probably showing my age a bit here, but I had this hilarious mental scene, fully animated Hazbin Hotel style, of a demon and a deity arguing over the warlock's soul, with the demon holding a tattered scroll while singing a variant of "We've got a bill of sale right here" from Disney's 1977 version of Pete's Dragon.

Am I just crazily goofy (yes), or has anyone else had an episode where they've come across something in their system that's supposed to be serious but struck a humorous chord for some reason?