now you learned :) you always need to cramp DnD in the title to trick the algorythm and the strange breed of dnd only Players !

I love Ironsworn/Starforged as a player AND a GM

Based and true. Running PbtA games makes you so much better at running everything else!

This is solid advice. Thanks, unc! I'm actually going to rewatch this a couple times. I'm also in full agreement that the games are infinitely more interesting when at least 1 player is 100% engaged. That's why I like smaller groups. Every player can feel seen.

I like how you say things. Its clear and concise.

Great video man keep up the good work

As of late I've been GMing Shadowdark and Cypher System, but i use the Ironsworn die mechanic to... aid in the derection of the game, using it as a simple orical with yes, yes but, and no responces. If i have npcs involved in a conflict a yes might mean one npc kills another npc, yes but could be they wound or subdue the second while a no would indicate failure and the second npc counyer attscking or escaping depending on the needs of the narative.

To a certain extent I get the need for having all that background information on a very long "lived" character like Vecna, while you are unlikely to use 90% of it, you also can't know up front what 10% of that info you are likely to use and while most DM's are going to feel fairly confident making that up for their own home brew villain a lot will be less confident when it comes to big setting villains like Vecna or Zashtam. I ran a Dark Heresy game when that system first came out, and while I definitely did less and less prep as the campaign went on what that prep started to focus in on was the major npc's and the monster of the week, frankly when it came to combat I just flipped to the appropriate compendium of mooks and mabe changed what guns the generic ganger statblock had, heck while I tried to make my MotW interesting I frequently just had it fight using one of those standard statblocks.

I've been tinkering around for a while with a mix up of both rules. The general idea would be to preserve most of adventure rolls, but to somehow reflect the D&D skillset and expertise. For example, a character with proficiency in Survival would get to use that as modifier as a fixed d6 number result on an Undertake a Journey move, and you would only throw the d10s in order to see what happens. Has anyone done something like that?

yay for DC20 mention 💜

PbtA games are cool as one offs. But the 30th time you “fail with consequences” I just take the damage. I just can’t care. “Oh something bad happens? Can I lose 5HP? This is so boring.”