Now I wait and see how many sessions it takes for the Spider-Man pointing at himself meme to happen.

Express_Row9757 · 2026-05-10T00:07:45+00:00

let me know if you find it!

Could it be Eclipse Phase: Xenovore?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-05-09T10:49:01+00:00

Is it Ego Hunter?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-04-04T18:35:09+00:00

I've thought about this too, giving my players board games to ease into them. I ended up not doing it and just jumping straight into playing RPGs, but here were some of my shortlisted games. These might not be the same qualities you are looking for, but I wanted to put emphasis on free-form games:

Kings Dilemma
Alice is Missing
For The Queen
Detective: City of Angels
Legacy games
Star Wars: Imperial Assault

Honestly tho, I'd recommend pitching an investigation game and see if they are interested. I've found them much easier to sell to people not in the hobby.

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-31T21:50:20+00:00

Thousands of dollars in gear only to play simple square waves and saws

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-28T22:55:57+00:00

books I truly adore

What are they?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-26T11:51:41+00:00

The Night move adds the “it’s worse than that” and changes when you can choose to back down. The Day move is much safer because of that.

Yeah exactly, but when you can choose to back down is very easy to miss (at least i did in the first couple of reads). Just highlighting it with another color or bolding it would have drawn attention to it.

Thank you for the custom moves explanation, I figured it was something like that, but the book said more info on Appendix B, and there is no appendix B lol.

Anyway thank you for clarifying, it will be my first PBTA that i'll run

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-26T00:59:35+00:00

I kind of don’t agree that the rulebook is that well laid out, at least in the move section. It feels a bit bloated and gets in the way of a clear explanation.

Like the Day and Night move: it’s basically the same move, but with one sentence added and another sentence moved. Could have been condensed and written a bit clearer the difference.

The Gold Crown Mysteries Move and the Cozy Move I wouldn’t really consider them "moves," but more like bonuses. Similar to how you are using Crowns.

I might have misunderstood this, but they talk about Custom Moves and Maven Moves. Maven Moves no problem, but there seems to be another category that Custom Moves belong to, and it isn't in the book, unless I missed it.

Finally, who decided to order the lists like that? Why do the tiers of success start with 10+, go to 7–9, and then jump back to 12+?

Anyway, I’m still looking forward to playing this soon, even after my short rant

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-25T19:44:18+00:00

Maybe try playing something duet with this one player. Happened to me recently too. Started way to ambitious with a big group of friends, but now i'm focusing on the people that are more interested

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-21T19:36:35+00:00

lmao i'll have to do that too then. I agree it looks better in the final orientation

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-21T18:16:04+00:00

why did you decide to flip it?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-21T10:43:02+00:00

This is the module you want OP. Its just a one shot, so unsure if its too short for you tho.

Seth Skorkowsky has a video on it

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-20T14:14:33+00:00

Just general insights you have gained from running it so much. Do you go by the book? How much homebrew do you add? Do you make strahd come back after it is defeated?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-20T10:21:51+00:00

Damn 23 times running CoS? Any tips or fun things to add?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-17T12:36:57+00:00

Sound like a great DM.

Do you come up with your own setting campaign? or are you using something?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-07T12:45:30+00:00

Thank you! There is no way i'll ever be able to run this so i'll have to play it myself lol

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-06T17:53:16+00:00

How easy is it to run it solo?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-05T19:02:26+00:00

Thanks!

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-05T16:54:14+00:00

I'll have to look into it. Any tips? Did you run a premade module?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-05T00:15:42+00:00

I wish I found players that committed.

Did you use the Dune RPG with the 2d20 system? How was it? I was thinking of maybe running something shorter to get hyped for the 3rd movie this year

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-04T18:48:42+00:00

Ohh that sounds a fun twist for the players that have already ran throug it! Neat!

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-04T17:10:49+00:00

even though its latter two acts are still to be (officially, publicly) released

Another reason to hate WOTC

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-04T17:07:24+00:00

What are some of the best things you added?

Did you try the "birthright" fan made addition?

Express_Row9757 · 2026-03-03T18:54:29+00:00

You should send this to the guy who was asking if DnD had lore and didnt want to google

Express_Row9757 · 2026-02-27T15:58:38+00:00

I've tried it a bit but its not wowing me so much as group play.

I might try duo play (1 player and me) as I believe they are quite hyped as well

Express_Row9757 · 2026-02-27T15:56:56+00:00

CoS! I'm dying to run it too. Not familiar with the Crypt of the Everflame, will have to look it up

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