Recent content by Gedece

I'm sharing a feed with my players, but they complain that the links inside each entry are broken (it's logical because it's an RSS feed with links to an internal page with, for example a character ) : tried adding them to the campaign, and while they see the campaign they were invited to, they...

I can improvise with little prep, but that little prep helps a lot in providing structure while improvising. This is how I work: I make bullet points of things that may happen. Some of those tell villain motivation, some tell things about the place. If possible and the scene has something...

You have variations on a theme, also. For example, Monster of the week is great, as it can be played Buffy or Grimm style if anybody picks The Chosen playbook, but if nobody picks it up, you can have a roaming band of monster hunters that feels quite different. Also in the paranormal genre you...

In fate when narrating a scene I drop pieces of paper with scene aspects, and also with the newly discovered ones. This lets players center in the story while keeping in mind how to take advantage of it all. I don't see any reason why this could not be done the other way, dropping a malus the...

I was watching a Sly flourish video and after his show he usually answers Patreon questions. One was about undead, and he made a genial approach. Pick any monster that leaves a corpse when dead, take it's stat block, some of it's skills, and apply undead invulnerabilities on it. Now you have a...

I did something like this to my young superheroes. There was a past heroic figure that was a teacher, and she made mental classrooms were she made the lectures that negated all kind of powers, and then mental danger rooms that had full powers. It was great seeing this now crazy and deranged...

I write summaries but far less detailed. Mine aren't about making a chronicle, but about helping players remember what happened. I don't write them only for my own adventures. I also write them for other GMs in non episodic adventures or when a session ends mid-adventure. Luckily we have a group...

I'm usually the one player logging some information for recaps, or mid adventure session ends. So I have no issue at all in delegating logging to any player when I GM. I don't think rules delegation is necessary for the storytelling games I usually GM, as they are not rule heavy. I do ask...

I definitely would change 15-19 to You land awkwardly on the snow cover wharf, you can attack the dwarf with disavantage

Fate and PBTA taught me how to fail forward, I never looked back on bad rolls ever since. If you never chained failed moves in PBTA, you are missing a lot of fun.

There are several classes that answer to a calling, so perhaps she's starting to feel the call but not consciously. For example, a soon to be Warlock might be on the verge of receiving a pact proposal, or a future priest a communication from a god, a future bard might be inclined to the arts, a...

Well, a way to drop a missing or misinterpreted clue to the player is actually dropping it. We know that players don't like people running away when combat is going badly. But we can make a curious maneuver, the inverse fail forward. This time the fail forward is used by the lieutenant of the...

When I put a puzzle, I think about who put it there and for what reason, and that helps narrow down which type of puzzle might work. For example, I once had a wizard lair accesible from a dungeon, and the puzzle was a physical one that had no instructions. It was a passcode the wizard used to...

No VTT for my group.