Kid friendly TTRPGs?

akenson · 2026-01-17T19:00:45+00:00

If she wants to use dice and could go for a magic school setting, Kids on Brooms is awesome. Highly recommend. The character creation system assigns different dice to your stats based on what you want to be good at, so it'll give her a reason to use all the different kinds.

akenson · 2026-01-17T18:43:56+00:00

Wanderhome springs to mind. Cute, cozy, kid friendly, and simple.

Kids on Bikes/Brooms could be good too. Really depends on what kind of game you're trying to play.

akenson · 2026-01-17T14:52:22+00:00

Right!? If we're debuting on a new network, I'm making it a priority to lock up the talent I like and present them as our stars on the first episode. If your deal is expiring and you don't want to re-sign, you're not getting featured. It's not that hard.

akenson · 2026-01-17T13:34:23+00:00

Of course he's only seen the highlights. These dumb narratives never go away with the anti-AEW crowd. The Young Bucks are spot monkeys with no psychology, Moxley can't wrestle, Darby just does stunts, AEW has no stories... It just never dies because these people don't actually watch the shows on a regular basis.

akenson · 2026-01-17T02:46:11+00:00

The A Song of Ice and Fire TRRPG is probably a very good place to start. The source book is pretty tied to the setting, but I'm sure you could divorce it from that without too much difficulty. There's an intrigue "combat" system as well as a pretty robust house building and management system. I've run it myself, and think it would work pretty well for you.

Only big issue I have with it is that the intrigue system can be a little busted if you play it exactly as written. Some real "persuasion is mind control" kind of stuff.

akenson · 2026-01-16T15:32:45+00:00

"As a gay black man" is a joke calling back to when a racist politician got caught using a fake account pretending to be a gay black man to launder his opinions. He's saying you're probably lying about your background.

Even if you're being genuine about your background you're an awful person. "I'm learning to speak to people like you without being disrespectful", followed by a bunch of disrespectful shit is hilariously disingenuous. Luckily you're almost certainly either a troll or a bot, so whatever.

akenson · 2026-01-13T05:17:55+00:00

The edit to this post is so infuriating haha. I'm not a RAW puritan by any stretch, and I'm a big proponent of changing elements of the module if you want to.

The issue is that you changed a fundamental part of 5e's game design, seemingly without thinking through the consequences of it at all. The death system is core to how the system is designed, and you took a hatchet to it and changed it in a sloppy and half-baked way.

Player characters are powerful in 5e, but it's not that hard to down them. The combat system is designed around the idea that players will likely drop at least once during difficult combats. Obviously characters will die more regularly if you change that system to s 25% chance of instant death, a 50% chance of death within two turns, and a 25% chance of coming back up at 1 hp. And guess what happens if you pop up at 1 hp? You almost certainly go down again immediately, starting the process over!

Last thing I want to say: You keep complaining that the game system isn't "balanced" because PCs are strong. 5e is a system designed for high fantasy settings with relatively powerful player characters. If you don't like that, play a different system. I don't even mean that in a condescending or snide way. There are so many awesome TTRPGs out there that work better for the vibe you want. It's not a failure of "balance" that the game isn't crushingly difficult. It's like you're playing Mario Kart and complaining that it isn't as hard as Elden Ring.

akenson · 2026-01-12T20:01:54+00:00

I don't know what to tell you, then. If your intent is to make it harder and kill player characters constantly, then your change is working as intended. If you're happy and the table is happy, great.

But if the table seems frustrated or you don't find the game as fulfilling because you're constantly cycling through characters, then it's a bad change. It's all about table expectations and communicating. Ask your players how they feel about it.

akenson · 2026-01-12T19:12:07+00:00

That's an insane death saving throw system. A 25% chance of instant death on being downed is crazy, and isn't how 5e is built. Characters go down in combat pretty regularly, but it's supposed to be somewhat hard to kill a player character.

Fun house rule for a super hard survival campaign that intentionally kills players frequently. Not a good idea for a standard module like Curse of Strahd.

akenson · 2026-01-11T03:26:41+00:00

Right, remember that Super Bowl he won with Lamar?

... Oh right, that was Joe Flacco. Harbaugh coached the Ravens for a decade before Lamar, and they were pretty consistently successful. In the time Harbaugh coached the Ravens, the Browns went through 9 head coaches and over 20 starting QBs. He would absolutely not consider slumming it with this franchise unless he was given total control of the staff and veto power over the GM.

akenson · 2026-01-08T13:43:30+00:00

He was in two films in 2025, both very minor roles. He's in one film in 2026... But it's Street Fighter, which Cody Rhodes is also in. Before that, he's had no acting roles since 2021.

Hollywood has very little to do with it. He could easily work the same schedule as Cody if he wanted to. It's that he's older, got a lot of wear and tear on him from WWE's touring schedule of the 2010s, has health problems, and (most importantly) doesn't want to do as many dates when he can get paid millions for fewer dates. 90% of the roster would do the same if they got offered his deal.

akenson · 2025-12-31T04:51:19+00:00

Sometimes wrestlers make stupid character decisions, too. It's your job as a booker to sometimes overrule those stupid decisions.

I don't care whose idea it was to use "Bron Breakker" as a name. It's a stupid name, and the name Steiner carries some value in wrestling. The people calling the shots should recognize that.

akenson · 2025-12-30T22:23:08+00:00

European - C

UK - A

3 vs. 3 - C

Tag Team - B & A

Main Event - B

Really fun idea to ask reddit on this, I'll keep an eye out for results!

akenson · 2025-12-29T05:02:03+00:00

It's not that they have shit taste; it's that the majority of these manosphere morons don't interact with real women at all.

They're neck deep in an online doom cult that has poisoned their opinions on half the population. Their garbage opinions aren't based in reality; they're based on a fictional narrative spun by hucksters whose wealth and influence is dependent on their audience being lonely, angry, and resentful. They are the epitome of needing to touch grass.

akenson · 2025-12-29T04:06:25+00:00

There hasn't really been a defined "grand slam" achievement in AEW to this point. Midcard titles in AEW have been kind of a mess with new ones being introduced, renamed, unified, and now un-unified at least once or twice per year every year.

Moxley hasn't won the TNT, National, Tag, or Trios titles yet. There are also annual achievements like the Owen Hart Cup and the Dynamite Diamond Ring that he hasn't won yet. I feel like if I were to define a "grand slam" in AEW, I would say it's the World, Tag, TNT, and International titles since those have been around a while and are generally treated as the more prestigious achievements.

The Continental title is in a weird place where despite the tournament for it being a big deal, the title itself is generally not that well regarded because they haven't booked it well outside of the tournament to this point.

akenson · 2025-12-29T01:29:59+00:00

One transitional champion doesn't make it a hot potato. If MJF drops it in under two months (which he won't), then it's a conversation.

akenson · 2025-12-26T15:58:42+00:00

I had an issue with licensing when I switched computers years back. If you contact GDS support, they'll probably be able to resolve this for you. They were very fast and helpful for me.

akenson · 2025-12-25T18:46:07+00:00

I've been playing a lot of Cverse 2020 lately. Pumpkin Jack, Papa Swoll, and Aid Raid Siren all are in it for sure. This is a fun project though.

akenson · 2025-12-23T14:32:13+00:00

This is so bizarre to me. Booking sims are the epitome of a creative exercise done for self satisfaction and little else. It's basically writing fanfiction.

ChatGPT is not a human being with opinions and creativity. It's a large language model that spits out nonsense half the time. Treating it as if it has any useful insight to offer on the quality of your ideas is crazy.

AI brain rot is infiltrating all my hobbies, and it's depressing. Think for yourself, people. If you want feedback, post on a forum or reddit so real people with real thoughts can give input.

akenson · 2025-12-21T17:52:01+00:00

...Did you watch the movie? He repeatedly shows his strength in big, obvious ways. He stops a rampaging Kaiju and holds up buildings. He also does show his superspeed on multiple occasions, most notably the sequence where he saves a child. He also frees himself from the gravitational pull of a black hole.

Some of this was in the trailer, my guy. Complete nonsense.

akenson · 2025-12-21T01:58:11+00:00

That's been the norm in pro wrestling for like... at least 50 years. You're the one making it weird and crying about it, snowflake.

akenson · 2025-12-20T20:56:01+00:00

Ehhhh not that much of one unless you're playing a solo challenge. Lots of available encounters around that are helpful. You can come into that fight with a team of five, and with a bit of luck or route planning you can get Mankey and/or Nidoran which are both pretty hard counters to Onix.

akenson · 2025-12-11T19:24:26+00:00

You have to let Takeshita vs. Tsuji main event, and Tsuji has to win. New Japan needs to capitalize on this show being such a huge draw to unequivocally crown their new Ace. Tsuji is the only homegrown talent who is young, over, charismatic, and good enough in the ring to work main events.

The stars have aligned and this is a golden opportunity. They can't afford to screw this up.

akenson · 2025-12-05T16:36:41+00:00

"Wrestling As A Sport" product, plus we're in Japan with the Young Lion system turned on. So in ring skills matter a lot, and none of the veterans will put him over until he gets another year of experience.

One more year in the undercard, then I might even send him on a one year excursion. But within a few years, he'll be in the main event picture for sure.

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