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I was initially surprised by this as I spend a lot of time at RPGnet, and Shadowdark went from 60 to 0 there in terms of discussion, even on the D&D board. Then I checked back in with the Arcane Library discord, and was like, "yep, there's the community." EZD6 is the same way: super-busy...

Yes, that's why I added my caveat about how it is being used in this thread. Elsewhere I have seen people be more cavalier with the phrase. I do support the use of bennies/fortune points, but that's a "fudge factor" that is available to all and publicly acknowledged at the start of the campaign...

I'm not a fan of the phrase "let the dice fall where they may" because the outcome of those dice occurs in a system designed to produce a specific range of results. The dice aren't determining what they mean. The GM and the ruleset and the players are doing that work. For example, I prefer...

"Jubber has already enjoyed the hospitality of Mistress Hydball! She did not know this, but it is the truth!" The woodgrue chuckles to himself.

Well, of course. You need purple 6-siders to play Risus, and I make sure to have red/yellow/blue dice for superhero RPGs (with purple/orange/green for the GM to use for the villains), and any dice for a science fiction RPG need to have tech motifs or stars on them. That's normal.

I will make up for that by completely simping for the Ars Magica KS when it happens later this year. Even though I had and have major issues with David Chart's vision for the game. Because nostalgia for the Deadfire Saga. Oops, I botched my Rego Mentem roll.

This is precisely what saved me from pledging to Shadowdark: perfectly cromulent, but not my thing.

That’s usually what the bishop was visiting about!

Yeah, that's my bad: I still have unresolved BerkList trauma.

I've always wanted to try this with Everway since a starting hero is robust enough not to need an entire party to survive.

And a Hulk!

It's always fun when the bishop comes visiting, though.

My memory is probably hazy on this point, but I do seem to recall some of the folks on the Ars Magica listserv in the 1990s pushing for an active antagonism between Church and Order--I can't imagine why I came up with the idea of Pope Sylvester forging a peace otherwise back then unless it was...

I just wanted the detente between Church and Order to be explicit if only to defang the Inquisitor/Quaesitor plotlines. "Oh, shit, we were nice to a priest! We're either going to be burned at the stake or certamened to death"

My idea for better integrating the Order into Mythic Europe has always been to say that Pope Sylvester II (he of the brazen head) had negotiated an effective detente between the Church and the Order. I.e., "render unto Bonisagus the things that are Bonisagus's, and unto God the things that are...

Every single time I start thinking I want to run ArM again, I get to NPC magus creation and die a little more inside.

I mean, Over the Edge and Risus and Everway (to name three such games) all date to the 1990s, and they are essentially "rulings, not rules" insofar as they feature a relatively straightforward resolution system that has to be contextually interpreted.

I had the older version of that book as well as the Avengers one. We put all the characters' names on slips of paper and then drew the names out of a hat to determine matchups in a Marvel version of Wrestlemania. Jarvis vs. Juggernaut was a trip.

I had the B/X ecosphere so I stayed with D&D. But we were also playing Top Secret, Boot Hill, Gamma World, Paranoia, Traveller, even Talislanta.

Yes, my tweener group thought Gary was an ancient geezer crank based on his Dragon editorials.