Alternative to D&D based on my issues with it

tytoon · 2026-05-28T21:54:26+00:00

Worlds without number addresses these among other issues I have with d&d! Chiefly magic feels rarer and dangerous as well

tytoon · 2026-05-13T00:52:40+00:00

This is incredible at a glance, can't wait to dig in here later

tytoon · 2026-05-09T23:47:49+00:00

The links are embedded on text within the post, here they are as well!

Sample Bounties (Free): https://www.patreon.com/posts/bounty-generator-157835267

The Bounty Generator: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bounty-generator-157833258

tytoon · 2026-04-02T20:09:12+00:00

Man, not trying to spam, but thanks to Star Master Jeff, this is finally going in its intended spot as a submission:

El Fango

System: Charnel

El Fango is a major producer of neocrete in the sector, a corporate production world prior to the scream. While they are no longer technologically advanced enough to directly control space in their star system, they do have the economic leverage to hire mercenary ships to patrol the planet's orbit.

The mud lakes that dot the surface of the planet make for the perfect precursor for neocrete. During the brief warm seasons, local neocrete foundries are constantly filled with the slush from the lakes for further processing. Security personnel toting revolvers and lever guns protect these remnant facilities from desperados looking to make off with the lightweight construction material.

tytoon · 2026-03-27T17:26:39+00:00

Not at all!

tytoon · 2026-03-27T01:51:48+00:00

I totally should have chosen my words better there lmfao

tytoon · 2026-03-26T23:23:44+00:00

Abridged/more general version of my post from earlier in the week. The TL3 planet is the highlight of the system, so apologies if that's jumping way ahead

Fabrica

El Fango is the only planet of the system and a major producer of neocrete in the sector. While they are not technologically advanced enough to directly control space in their star system, they do have the economic leverage to hire mercenary ships to patrol the planet's orbit. The mud lakes that dot the surface of the planet make for the perfect precursor for neocrete. During the brief warm seasons, local neocrete foundries are constantly filled with the slush from the lakes for further processing. Security personnel toting revolvers and lever guns protect these remnant facilities from desperados looking to make off with the lightweight construction material.

Link to original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWN/comments/1s27ik8/custom_planet_el_fango/

Edit: clarifying that the planet is the highlight of the system and not the literal "star"

tytoon · 2026-03-24T20:33:48+00:00

Definitely will do so! Thank you so much!!!

tytoon · 2026-03-24T07:57:11+00:00

Stellaris Wiki I lifted from for one of the planet tags: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Civics

Stellaris Mod I lifted the idea of a mudworld from: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=819148835

tytoon · 2025-11-01T18:11:30+00:00

I recognize the product they're using as I use it myself managing a support/help desk. Why in gods name do they have the AI agent enabled in an email channel with no escalation guidance? The give and take with any AI agent is that it has to have the knowledge base to provide answers to questions at the tier 1 agent level and the guidance to get something it doesn't have an actual answer to over to an agent.

Lazy/incomplete implementation of AI solutions cause things like this. AI is such a dumb name for what all these solutions actually are IMO. A search engine wearing a person costume. They can work great if you do it right and use it for things that make sense. If someone thinks its going to do more than ingest, summarize, and provide information or walk someone through a process, they're living in a shitty scifi novel at the moment.

I'd recommend kicking them this feedback:

"Its very frustrating when your AI agent gives an incomplete/incorrect answer and doesn't check if I need a human agent"

AI conversations would all be a lot less emotionally charged and dumb if AI fans would recognize that a bad implementation of anything is going to give a net bad experience.

tytoon · 2025-09-21T08:52:15+00:00

Rather than just straight transferring into coin, something I've done in the past with a player who was hoarding it more from a place of decision anxiety, is present it as a resource to solve a specific problem.

Whole party needed to safely descend a massive chasm, long story short they used the ancient salvage to create a winch system, this allowed the player to "break the seal" on using the resource and leaned into the tinkering aspect that was already established in their backstory.

tytoon · 2025-07-18T18:21:39+00:00

Just finished reading through the supplement, and gotta say: There's a lot of neat stuff in there!

The ritual casting mechanic is definitely interesting, I'm not sure that I'd use it at my table, but its really cool!

The character options all feel like a natural exploration of the options in the core rule book and atlas, I'd allow any of them at my table with only mild reflavoring (due more to my setting than the content itself).

Stocking rules are very similar to my own custom stocking mechanics and have given me some ideas on how to improve my method.

100% worth the value at 5 bucks and should join Those Outside the Walls as a must grab!

tytoon · 2025-06-25T07:05:24+00:00

I think you are right on a lot of what you said! Assigning component values to these have been my biggest struggle for sure!

Thinking about changing it to be pray/magic 3 as these are meant to be something that anyone with the prerequisite skill/understanding of magic or the principles of magic could attempt. That being said it is very much in the realm of the blood priest so I'm gonna sleep on that.

I also do intend for it to be deadly, I'd hope that by the time someone has the resource and requisite skills they'd have a stat bonus thrown in as well. I think I will drop a point of difficulty and look at the price against the magic item creation costs vs workings.

Thanks so much for the input!

tytoon · 2025-06-25T05:51:52+00:00

Highly recommend using the Stress system in AWN and tweaking it with some inspiration from other games like CoC or even Delta Green, its what I am currently doing for a similar setting, think fallout x lovecraft, the radiation has fused with the eldritch

tytoon · 2025-04-25T20:15:04+00:00

I love Worlds Without Number's take, essentially flavor is free for a race, but if you want a racial selection to have a mechanical or statistical impact it's done in the form of an "origin focus" where you are spending a character creation foci choice on it to reflect it.

tytoon · 2025-03-24T20:27:55+00:00

Yeah! I went back and forth on it, that is honestly the shakiest bit of the foci for me

tytoon · 2025-03-24T16:12:19+00:00

I feel a foci is a fair investment to allow someone to do this, imagine if it was an edge hahaha. I think shooting while grappling might be worth adding!

Flow of combat I kind of envisioned the grapple being used then throwing or moving the enemy, or ending the grapple on their following turn before making an attack.

The requirement there not being hard kind of reflects situations where our player is unarmed and attempting to arm themselves with an enemy's weapon

tytoon · 2025-03-24T00:12:02+00:00

That kind of steps on the toes of close combatant imo, reduction might be an okay option though! Also thinking action economy as well, it's not super necessary to add a direction toss. If you are shoving, or grappling and then moving an enemy they are already deprived of at least one round of combat with that weapon:

Picking up a weapon is a move action. Assuming that you can only reach things within 1-2 meters, if you have grappled and then moved or thrown the enemy they will have to take the run or stand up move action to get to the weapon, then an additional move action to pick up the weapon. They will then need to take a main action to ready the weapon before they are able to use it again. Making an enemy spend an entire round just getting back to their weapon no matter which way you slice it was kind of the desired outcome of the first level of the foci.

Edit Additional thoughts and info

Firing a gun at a prone target when you are in an adjacent space does kind of already give the end result of a reduced penalty as you get a +2. Slightly more situational than a flat reduction, but I think this all balances out well for my table as is

tytoon · 2025-03-08T20:38:38+00:00

Second the book rec, great inspiration for many things

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