Looking through my copy of mythras has got me thinking about modifiers, bonuses, roll percentages, and using the existing rules as creatively as possible, to the point where I want to look at other ttrpg systems in more depth and what I can scratch together from looking at other folk's takes at...
So I've been really warming up to the concept of spellcasting rolls instead of spell slots (Vancian or otherwise) in D&D, in general.
A few Youtube personalities have talked about this, including Dungeon Craft and House DM (great vids, check them out), pulling from Dungeon Crawl Classic's...
Continuing from this thread; starting a new thread because I've got a strong working title and a clearer picture of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Sagas of the Galaxy Rangers will be a space fantasy game/setting deeply in D&D tradition, planetary romance and space opera, and Japanese RPGs and...
There are some (many?) who feel having both an ability score and an ability modifier is kinda redundant in D&D and its variants.
What I have seen is a lot of games who dropped the ability score and instead used only the modifier.
Problem is, I have always seen the ability score as the more...
This is a separate thread to discuss my Untitled Retroclone without the trapping of the Galactic Dragons setting... thus, with a more traditional D&D race/class selection and technology level.
It started as a D&D retroclone, combining the AD&D Player's Option rules with a simplified d20...
Based on the interest expressed in What IP/games would you like to see?, I thought I'd start a thread for each of my ongoing gaming/fiction projects to discuss what I'm trying to accomplish.
Galactic Dragons grew out of one of my perennial White Whales-- the need to implement the Player's...
So, there is a new Conan game out there by Modiphius and I've perused the quickstart rules and I wasn't inspired. I did play the d20 version by Mongoose years ago and it wasn't bad. Is there something you would recommend? Maybe I should give Modiphius another chance? Maybe reskin something else?
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