Shadow of the GM

In the first of my "A Focus on..." series I read through the initiative rules presented in AD&D 2nd edition, as well as my take on what they imply, and how I have used them. As a warning, some bits I may not be taking myself too seriously... you have been warned.

Today I'm going to talk about my planned deeper rules dives and why in have chosen the systems I have.

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In this episode I have my double sided rant on paid GMs. Are they a great way to show appreciation for a GMs hard work, or a vile capitalist contrivance where we know pay people to have fun with us!!  You decide.

In this show I discuss my, still slightly tenuous, return to Dungeon Mastering. Even more controversial is the likelihood that I will be running D&D 5th Edition!

Welcome to the 30th episode! Life begins at 30, or at least it does for my GURPS solo play character. In this episode I talk through the process of creating my character and how I think about constructing characters in GURPS.

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In this call in episode we cover GURPS, skills in RPGs, Hex flowers and some other stuff. Yeah.

Thank you to my call ins, Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast, Joe of Hindlsightless podcast and Weal or Woe actual play, Che Webster of the Roleplay Rescue Podcast, Colin Green from the Spikepit podcast and Goblin's Henchman from the podcast of the same name. I really appreciate the calls and hope my replies have done you all some justice.

Nerds RPG Variety cast: https://anchor.fm/jason376

Hindsightless: https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9

Spikepit: https://anchor.fm/spikepit

Roleplay Rescue: https://anchor.fm/rpgrescue

Goblin's Henchman: https://anchor.fm/ghench

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In this episode I'm going to talk about my plans to do some solo world exploration using hexflowers developed by Goblin's Henchman and the Mythic GM emulator (though using Goblin's Henchman's hexflower version) to randomise and procedurally generate as much of the world as possible. Maybe insane, we shall see!

Some call ins today from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast and Colin Green of the Spikepit podcast. Then I ramble on about how, maybe, possibly, some of us misunderstand GURPS and what it does, or tries to do. Finally I finish off my madness talking about why it could be good to become an expert on a system, referencing Joe Richter from the Hindsightless podcast as well as multiple mentions of Che Webster of Roleplay rescue fame.

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Check out these podcasts:

Nerd's RPG Variety Cast: https://anchor.fm/jason376

Spikepit RPG Podcast: https://anchor.fm/spikepit

Hindsightless: https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9

Roleplay Rescue: https://anchor.fm/rpgrescue

Should you have skills in RPGs? Do they add to immersion, do they give you niche protection or definition to your character? Maybe they're core to your system and you need them. Maybe they are awful and we should just do without them. Who needs skills when you have other mechanisms which are perfectly good right? Right?