Ah, so you’re playing Paranoia then

How do you feel about Unknown Armies though? There’s kind of a conspiracy but also many small conspiracies…

That’s the joke from the d&d movie, but the spell also has a duration so you can sleep soundly

Funny story: because I was always late, my old group started giving me earlier times to show up. Because these times aligned better with my trains and subways, I started showing up on time. Except they’d lied to me going my being late would actually make me arrive at the same time as everyone else. But now I was half an hour early and they were unprepared.

If they’re the DM isn’t it THEIR job to show things?

There’s a rant from him somewhere about women running the hobby by… existing or something

But then the fire nation attacked

It was actually Donatello the Renaissance painter, not the ninja turtle.

Funny story, it’s to fix the second half of this complaint that TSR got Dragonlance going

I used to always take amnesia as a character flaw in World of Darkness games.

Ban that shit!

I’m sure this means something to someone

WW also made a guy who was a vampire, mage, werewolf and eventually ashtray, so i wouldn’t put them on a pedestal

There’s an old Dragon email about a guy needing TSR to print a new “deities and demigods” because his players had already beaten all those from the original.

Quest Worlds. It handles all conflicts the same, whether they’re a combat or a heated debate for the party’s life. What determine if you go into an extended contest (ie combat) is the importance of the conflict, not whether weapons are involved. Additionally, relationships and social status (for example) are handled as skills are and can be used to reinforce other abilities, so a warrior fighting to save their family will really fight harder. This makes relationships, social status, etc matter in terms of rules and bring the rp and rules into alignment. The abilities also scale, so that a master fighting a novice well have an overwhelming advantage.

Nice. My friends and I are in the third year of our Enemy Within campaign, and we’re still on the first book.

I don’t know about Lancer but Battletech is a very Americanized version of those I guess.

You can either give them unimportant npc, give them a brief beforehand or just let them go nuts and deal with consequences later (if you’re into letting players build the world). Which one you choose depends on your circumstances and especially your players

Here’s a trick I saw on a let’s play a while back: have the players whose characters are not in the scene play NPCs.

Only D&D fans don’t want to hear “play a game better suited to what you want to do”

That said, I’d recommend Runequest over WFRP any day of the week, and twice on weekends