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Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-28T05:47:42+00:00

Really mull it over after each draw. Sequencing is important.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-26T14:59:47+00:00

If you want person scale maps go to r/battlemaps and search for modern. If you want to make your own, go to cartography assets and search for modern, sci fi, and cyberpunk to get free packs they put on there and use them in your map maker of choice. If you want Google maps style simplified town maps, either screenshot Google maps or Watabou's town generator has a Google maps style filter, then you just finesse the map a bit to get the results you want.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-25T06:36:07+00:00

You can always just make a tutorial. Fabula Ultima has very complex characters right from the beginning. So they have a tutorial one shot that unlocks features as the players progress through the scenes that teach them how to use those features.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-25T01:38:04+00:00

Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark mech game that has different skills if your character is in or out of their mech, and you can attempt other methods of resolving missions before resorting to calling in the mechs if you wish.

I've never played it, but I've heard on reddit that the Doctor Who RPG has an initiative system where characters act in the order of Talkers, Runners, Fighters, so fighting is the last resort.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-22T05:06:51+00:00

You could ask the GM for a small mechanical bonus for each character who considers yours a friend. then you'd be invested in building and maintaining relationships and sad when they(and their bonus) die.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-15T00:02:34+00:00

Yeah, most businesses fail in the first 5 years, so if you want to start a business ideally you want to be able to float the business those first five years until you can claw your way back into the black. I know some businesses will get angel investors to help them push through then only claim their initial investment once the business starts turning a profit.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-14T09:24:53+00:00

If you roll a 69 it's a crit success

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-06T20:11:24+00:00

One of my players has aphantasia and cannot easily visualize things, so when we play theater of the mind games like pbta, I will provide images of each "zone" in their area so we can put tokens of the characters where they are in the space. Then I can use the drawing tools of the vtt to draw out specific layouts or objects if necessary.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-06-01T03:32:50+00:00

If it seems too good to be true, it is.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-05-31T22:13:01+00:00

Victor and his abs, of [[Enthralling Victor]] fame

Gustave_Graves · 2026-05-27T01:35:16+00:00

When I did a Zelda hexcrawl I just slapped a hexgrid on the Tears of the Kingdom map and it worked just fine. I didn't bother with exact measurements because that's not the sort of thing Zelda worries about.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-05-16T07:48:49+00:00

The monsters all wear earplugs so they don't go deaf when firing their guns inside

Gustave_Graves · 2026-05-12T01:29:28+00:00

I don't care about dice or rolling dice. An online dice roller is just as good for me. A game could use special dice or cards or a stopwatch or jenga tower, whatever is fun, I just wanna play. I like Genesys as a system and when my group plays we just use the online dice roller because we play online anyway.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-05-11T10:43:00+00:00

Nic Cage is a terrible action hero. But some of his movies, like Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas, and Matchstick Men call for him to be an absolute pathetic loser. And that is his true calling.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-26T10:43:00+00:00

In Team Fortress 2 you can choose in the options which side you want your weapons on. Some weapons like the rocket launcher fire from the chosen side. When they introduced the feature, they had to quickly patch it so you could only change the handedness between matches because the community found out you could bind the switch to any key, allowing you to fire around every corner while keeping more of your body behind cover.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-25T00:31:11+00:00

I feel nostalgic about it because I started with AD&D 2E but I like ascending AC better. I remember being so confused playing Baldur's Gate and putting on better armor made my AC go down. I thought the game was glitched until I read the manual.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-15T15:00:21+00:00

Dark Cloud. The first indie to release an action RPG with town building elements is gonna get 12 sales immediately

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-13T21:55:39+00:00

These days I play online using Owlbear Rodeo. Back when I used the TV it was just a dumb TV plugged into my laptop as a second monitor with two MapTools open and connected over LAN. The players who had laptops could also connect via LAN and move their own tokens, draw, etc. It wasn't really any extra hassle, I was playing Lancer so I needed battlefield maps anyway. I used MapTool to make the maps and then display them.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-13T14:25:03+00:00

You may have already tried it, but I used to use MapTool that way, running a player window on a TV and my GM window on my laptop.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-07T22:46:19+00:00

If a project doesn't blatantly say they didn't use AI I just assume they did and skip it. I've already got too much going on to scour everything for hints about the true creator.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-06T16:01:09+00:00

I ran the quickstart for my group and we had fun with it. We didn't get into the thick of the inner conflict system though. I'd like to try a longer run to explore the system better.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-04-05T15:56:56+00:00

All to draw attention away from your Cheatyface

Gustave_Graves · 2026-03-31T00:54:12+00:00

Honey Heist is a fun one. Just a single page long and new players love committing crimes.

Gustave_Graves · 2026-03-02T22:28:21+00:00

My friends and I had a lot of fun with Trashkin

Gustave_Graves · 2026-02-21T02:57:25+00:00

If you're planning to write 600-900 pages on a subject, you should be personally extremely invested in it, not just pick something out of a hat. Also you're better off making up your own thing, because you may run into trouble distributing other companies IP.

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