10 years? , on average, I change game yearly

Eclipse phase does even better

You wake up in a resleeve pod, you start to slowly get the feel of your new body, you’re a thin girl with butterfly wing? Looks cool you never got used to the smell of that Gorilla hybrid morph you used before. Looking at your arm you see a large tattoo Wang body rental and start to think about how the triad will make you pay while wondering what you do here. You’re muse tells you that they restored a backup from last month, as you&ve been missing for over 2 weeks.

In EP, a TPK isn’t the end, but the start

Sometimes, especially in fun one-shot I prepare pretty wild pre-gen, and always think I hope a therapist won’t read these characters :)

This is a classic issue on world building, you plan a whole and dangerous continent, but moving the PC means loosing reccurent NPCs and track of the ongoing conflict where PC are involved.

So you end up focusing on one city and it’s surrounding

I’ve always been joking about playing an “orc poet” in Shadowrun as a way to do something totally sub optimal :) TIL that you can also play orc in D&D. And cute orcs can definitely change the world building

Now, there is room a plot-twist, where the PC hear about a monster looking for healing potion for his brother, and who murdered their father. Monsters have feeling too, and adventurer are awful murderers

Assuming that their victim will seek for revenge and that authorities will hunt them is a good way to force murder hoboes to calm down

This is making planning ever more complicated, I try to have 4 or 5 player, so the game can run with 1 or even two player not showing. Sure if someone just don’t show on a regular basis, I’ll re open her place to a new player. But people are abroad for work, have to deal with their kids, or have a peak of work, they let us know, and we find an in game reason for their character so not be available and the game runs fine.

Even when the GM miss, we all have ready to play one shots lying on our computers, so not that of a big deal

Player cancelling aren’t that of a big deal comparing to GM cancelling. In the first case you keep playing while shit talking about Bob, in the other, you have to change your plan for the evening

Which is technically the whole point of an ambush.

However, for the players it means that when not expecting a combat, (tavern, camp) they don’t have to carry 15kg of metal, without blocking the other players every time someone needs armoured fighters

Iam right back from a larp. But players from a mercenaries company wearing full plates are looking for squire officially so people can discover that playstyle without buying a full plate armour. Unofficially, because with help, they can put their armour in less than 5 minutes instead of 30. So having squires would mean they can remove their armour without needing a lot of time to put it back

Ah the good old "don’t go there, it’s dangerout* finishing in TPK

Ach so you miss the point daß people mishe Austria and Australia, and that Hitler was Spraching with an Austrian Akzent. Daß works even Beßer

With experience, one learn that players will need 5 minutes to destroy 5hours of game prep. So indeed, sticky notes and bullet points do wonder.

Also, somehow, modern games do wonder at reducing the amount of game prep

Pro tip. NPC want to live too offers more alternative to combats, make the one happening more interesting.

The Borg games have a whole morale rules to let the NPC flee, but this can be managed based on what makes sense story wise

Quick reminder that player shall be encouraged to use creative way to avoid combat.
Fast talk, charm and even money are valid way to get rid of ennemy. Stealth and contacts are great way to avoid them

Come to the dark side, we have cookies

dice are only there to make noise behind the GM screen

Rules are just suggestions

PC death shall not be the result of bad dice roll, but a consequence of player actions one of my classic fudges to avoid it is to suppress the critical rule, and to replace single die system by multiple dices to have outcome easier to predict

And this is how, at a LARP, the cute alchemist touched my dick, after it was cut from my body.

True story, and that’s how I had a characcer becoming the great godly eunuch

That’s a classic critic against D&D if one stroke of knife is deadly IRL it should be in RPG.

That said, 3 players means a GM so just cut in half and you get 4 piece including one for the GM

But I do think Blades is my favorite “rules light” system

I’ve read “Beam saber” which is supposed to be Forged in the Dark, and I wouldn’t call it “Rule light”, the core is simple, but there is like 200 pages of rules, with “position”, "consequences’, flash back, downtime. Looks pretty heavy for a “rule light” system

But I still need to play-it to see how it runs, feel like there is a lot of “unique” concepts and that we’ll need 2-3 one shot to get a feel how it runs