Khrux

If this is how you feel, pick up all the kobald press monster books. Between Tome of Beasts 1-3 and the creature codex, that’s probably more monsters than WotC have printed across all of 5e.

Also check out the Monsterous Menagerie be Level Up 5e, this book can take a few extra liberties as it’s for EN Publishing’s take in 5e, and that difference means they can really make interesting monsters that are basically compatible with standard 5e.

I’m also a fan of the Grimhollow Monster Grimoure, although it’s probably the closest to current 5e content, and is only elevated by it’s consistent dark fantasy tome, sort of like the monster from Van Richens Guide to Ravenloft.

There are probably 1500 monsters across all of there which are all more interesting than many WotC monsters, I couldn’t recommend them enough.

This is the first RPG story I remember reading, a few years before I played my first game.

I remember being 16 and standing in a car park with my friend, recounting this story and his only real response was “you fuckin nerd”.

I literally think about this hobby every day now, and write about it in some way every day too, I guess he was right.

Happy to see you here, I think your stories have been quite influential on my next character and I presumed I’d have seen the last of you at the beginning of July when I stopped being able to use Reddit due to prefering mediums without ads.

I have a piece of counter advice that allows you to on occasion plan a plot point. Generally your PCs are most invested in their beloved NPCs, either from backstory or the plot you’ve developed. If you have a cool idea, these NPCs can often be inserted into it and offer exactly what the players enjoy.

I sort of agree, I have never played in a premade setting except for a 2-shot for city of mist and I’ve never GMd one at all, and I often spend a lot of time reading rulerooks for ideas for my own RPGs.

I’ve been trying to write my own collaborative storytelling game recently rewards players for taking on a storyteller role but doesn’t stop players who would prefer to remain as one character for the session, and when I read Ben Robbins’ blog post about Remember Tomorrow, I thought I could use a part of this and bought the pdf. I’m trying to build a royal court political thriller type system and I know that this was cyberpunk by default, but 3/4 of the page count is really guidance on how to make a specific tone of cyberpunk lore, with the rules interwoven between them.

I feel that if your system is novel and applicable to many tones and genres, it should be seperated from that genre any related setting in the rulebook, and similarly if you’re rules and genre are wrapped up, it’s a good idea to seperate setting slightly, which we commonly seen in fantasy RPGs.

I feel they should be in the same book, but unless your rules are absolutely dependent on your genre or your the two absolutely dependent on your settings, it’s wise to seperate them to make your book more easily usable by those wanting to work your ideas into their own.

Honestly I support the weakening of stunning strike specifically. The monk shouldn’t be crap with the exception of one ability that is so encounter breaking that many DMs are weakening it anyway.

The monk should have been buffed otherwise of course but the modifications to stunning strike are more or less required.

I was gonna say that this sounds like a killer delter green pitch.

Homebrew is rad, homebrew options that are accidentally stronger than official options are bad and homebrew options that are intentionally stronger require one hell of a game designer to keep the game reasonably balanced.

This current wave of enshitification to online services is generally driven by said online services taking steps that they believe to be more profitable to the detriment of the people who use them.

That has always gone on but it feel like it’s everywhere at once at the moment; with the place I live in, the transport I use, the food I buy, the media and art I consume etc.

1900 years ago, the world knew that the only things people desired were bread and circuses, i.e. to have your needs met and have entertainment, a lot of people have built their modern circuses off of things that are becoming unusable or deserve boycott. It’s far better than living in a warzone or something but to have many things we rely on for satisfaction stripped from us at once.

I just wanna spend my free time entertained without having to perpetually change what provides that entertainment, is that not why most of us use this site?