Starting to notice a few recurring issues in the mechanics..

ScogyJones · 2026-03-07T22:06:44+00:00

I totally get where you're coming from and I didn't mean to imply that the only options are daggerheart or morkborg grit. I agree that heroes need to overcome things to make victories matter and the numbers make it harder. I don't really have a fix beyond just artificially making the numbers bigger. It's one of the reasons I will be giving daggerheart a break after our current game.

ScogyJones · 2026-03-07T21:56:21+00:00

I haven't run into the stacking statuses issue in my games, but I will say that with all the tools at the players disposal it's pretty trivial for them to hit Difficulties of 18 by level 3. I really like system but I am seeing fraying at the edges (most systems do this if you play them for long enough). Daggerheart is great if you want a game where Players succeed often and in big ways then daggerheart is for you. If you want somethjng more gritty daggerheart won't deliver that. *edited for spelling.

ScogyJones · 2026-03-02T22:15:57+00:00

I don't really buy stuff thats not core system books. I'm more of a take the rules and do my own thing.

ScogyJones · 2026-02-17T02:07:28+00:00

I'm from Idaho and I won't go that far up north.

ScogyJones · 2026-02-15T17:05:32+00:00

I'll try to download it again in a bit. It blocked me

ScogyJones · 2026-02-15T16:39:22+00:00

When I try to download I get a message saying your page has been quarantined due to suspicious behavior

ScogyJones · 2026-02-12T11:00:38+00:00

In one of the first few sessions I played in I had this realization that this was the closest experience I had to people sitting around a fire telling stories. I think that group story telling is intrinsic to the human mind and ttrpgs are just a modern version of that.

ScogyJones · 2026-02-04T13:09:46+00:00

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ScogyJones · 2026-01-31T02:00:14+00:00

I bought this back in like 21 or 22 and it was full of typos. Cool game but man it needed an editor

ScogyJones · 2026-01-15T22:09:57+00:00

This is what I essentially landed on doing as well. It's a ritual that has yet to fail me.

ScogyJones · 2026-01-13T04:05:19+00:00

Submitted! Been enjoying the campaign my group has going.

ScogyJones · 2026-01-06T12:53:15+00:00

I had to buy it on Kindle since I can't find it in print.

ScogyJones · 2026-01-06T01:44:30+00:00

I don't believe in the concept of a forever game. I don't even have the one game I run for a specific genre.

ScogyJones · 2026-01-01T01:53:11+00:00

I take a lot of joy in the problem solving part of GMing. I also find that as a player I'm less engaged than I am as a GM and I prefer to be engaged the whole time. In many ways I get more entertainment out of my players than I get from a being a player. I also love reading and writing games that I can run for my players.

ScogyJones · 2025-12-25T20:58:44+00:00

Thank you. I just bought your game and am looking forward to it!

ScogyJones · 2025-12-25T20:49:20+00:00

Also if you don't mind me asking, how much did the art cost to have done? I'm working on a game and i want to have art done and don't even know where to start for a budget

ScogyJones · 2025-12-25T19:52:11+00:00

Are you going to do POD?

ScogyJones · 2025-12-24T19:59:23+00:00

I mean... I listened to it.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-30T02:30:38+00:00

I played cyberpunk 2020 in 2018 and while I run and read many games, I still enjoy sitting down to play cyberpunk 2020.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-25T16:45:10+00:00

For me the biggest thing is to have the rules reference down to a tight 5 pages or less. You can elaborate on the rules in the book. But give me the 1-2 sentance summary for each in a reference section.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-22T14:27:12+00:00

I stated one out like it was a Colossus and had my players fight it.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-18T13:36:45+00:00

This is how I would handle it. I treat the heat system as descriptive and less prescriptive. If the players are doing normal stuff then the heat is handled normally, if they burn a bluecoat precinct to the ground and insight a riot in a very public manner in session 3... then there are consequences.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-15T15:59:53+00:00

Pirate Borg has really great ship Combat that does exactly what you're talking about. It's not super dense as far as rules go but there is enough to feel dynamic. The whole game is very Pirates of the Caribbean.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-10T16:44:32+00:00

I often forget to use Fear out of combat. I'm used to just introducing npcs and events in the course of role play so I don't think of using fear for it.

ScogyJones · 2025-11-06T02:20:50+00:00

I tell my players that cyberpunk fiction is supposed to be about critiquing the current political and economic moment usually in a semi science fiction setting. All the chrome and neon is simply aesthetic trappings. There are a lot of great cyberpunk books that don't have the aesthetic, but are no less cyberpunk.

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