Good review…I would have thought it would have at least come with some Cypher Shorts.

I'm look forward to Within Cold Stars in January

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight module has rules for a pie eating contest. If you fail your constitution checks you take custard damage. If custard damage does you in, you go into a pie coma and are out.

Thanks 😊 this has given me some really good note taking Ideas

Thanks

I remember getting a cloth map in one of the Might and Magic PC games... those would be a plus... or laminated maps that you can use dry erase markers on 0-0

I just realized my comment is irrelevant someone else thought of it much sooner...lol Royal Rumor Gala: Something similar to Cards against humanity, each player takes a turn being the judge. the constant prompt is who ever can tell the judge the most fantastical rumor wins a point. each round a new judge takes the reins and you have to cater your rumor to that player/characters sense of humor. This could also be a great way to farm for future adventure ideas from your players allowing them to contribute to what they might tackle next? But yeah good ideas I think all around. I do love the pie eating contest idea will be using that on one of my groups for sure.

Excellent video! Thanks for the info!

thank you!

Cypher System looks really well designed, and Monte Cook games has some great worlds to play in. I really want to try out Numenera, Old Gods of Appalachia and Ptolus. Don't have anyone local that really plays, let alone in CS, but may try to find a game online at startplaying or something.

On the players' side, Cypher System is certainly beginner friendly, It's a logical stream-lined system that is fairly easy to learn. For the DM however, it really depends. With the players making all the rolls, saving plot and party becomes far more difficult for the DM than it is in systems where the DM can simply fudge some rolls. Also player intrusions give players influence on the world that they wouldn't have in other systems, which may be difficult to manage for newer DMs. It's certainly great for DMs to create their own world, as it is truely a universal system that works in any genre and even in genre mixes. I'd say it's one of the best systems as long as long as your world has more sand boxes than rail roads.

Nice review. But... :) It would have been nice to show some mechanics. I still don't know What the Cypher system IS. :)

For the rumors game, I might just make it a puzzle. So maybe youre at a party and while talking to some guests, you hear rumors. Maybe a guest with a red shirt says the thing about the knight and the queen. Throughout the house, there are chess boards and in the room with red walls, you need to move the chess pieces so that the knight is near the queen then a secret door unlocks. Do that for multiple rooms and guests in the house so it all comes together! It would be funny if the players take the rumors literally and tell on the Queen to cause chaos. Now why would these guests tell you these random hints? Well story wise, maybe youre trapped in an illusion and the guests are other souls that are trapped that are trying to help you eacape.

this is a topic i have thought about from time to time, but haven seen many talk about. one thing ive done when players start joking partially or fully out of character, is to join in and let them have their fun for like a minute, then declare a small break. and then when we start playing after 3-5 minutes i try to start right at some sort of action (not combat, just something with stakes) to get the players invested and having to make in character decisions immediately. but the most important thing is of course to communicate and set expectations together, so i also tell people ehy we’re taking the break and stuff

Nice video! Thank you very much!

I think the situation is crucial. I remember many fun moments in taverns and while travelling with D&D groups, but I'm still pissed at that one player who ruined the mood with a stupid out of game name joke when I intruduced the main villain 15 years ago.

thank you,!

thank you! this looks so fun

Thank you for having us! It was fun talking about the origins of our show.

Notion is great, I prefer Obsidian though or if you want to pay LegendKeeper. Good tips though.

Light solarion is severely underpowered at the moment

Just discovered your channel - it's great! #relationshipgoals 🙂

I've run a 1-on-1 campaign for a couple of years, and the biggest delight was letting my player revel in total main-character-syndrome. When you don't have to balance the narrative around multiple people, that one PC can be the most special person in the world - in this case, the cleric quickly found out that he was destined for godhood. With the sidekick, we did what you are planning on doing - I did the RP, and the player controlled him in combat. Worked out really well. The only caveat was that I had to hold back from giving the sidekick many special abilities because the player was already juggling prepared spells and cleric abilities and found it too taxing to also have lots of special abilities on the sidekick.

Thank you!!! Reading the rulebook there were a few questions I had and you answered all of them thank you so much

I like this video very much, looking forward to seeing this whole series :) I was also wondering, if you could answer a question. I have been preparing to DM, and one of the things I've noticed is how vastly different in length campaigns might be. As someone who never finished a campaign as a player and later played only in short adventures for 2-5 sessions, it's hard for me to wrap my head around the idea of how long realistically speaking a campaign might last. Sure, it depends on the table, but, e.g. 2 years is a long time, however if your players are taking their time to rp or may be slow to progress through the game, the plot might not go too far in these 2 years. In this case, is it even realistic to plan for more or less epic adventure? Or would you recommend not getting my expectations too high? Sorry for the convoluted and maybe a bit naive question. I lack DMing experience and thus the scope that I should aim for is a bit confusing to me :(

I've seen two people ttrpg sessions before and I've always thought of it as a novelty thing. Thank you for providing an alternative perspective on this style

My boyfriend and I have been playing weekly duet games for years now. It first started wth dnd as a birthday present I asked if we could play a one on one bloodhunter one shot that was made for a solo character. Later on I wanted to keep using that character so we made some plans for setting up a campaign for them along with having a sidekick join him, they were a cleric so they could handle the healing side of things. This compaign continued for about 2 years and when we finished we moved on to new characters and new stories. Fast forward to now and we've since switched to pathfinder 2e, it's definitely a different wheelhouse than dnd but I think for the better. My boyfriend is modifying adventurepath's made for a standard party and nerfing the monsters a bit to better suit my party of 3 adventurers. Currently I assentially controll 3 characters (which I don't recommend for anyone starting out, the only reason this works is because we have a firm grasp of the rules by this point). When I roleplay I only controll my one main character while the boyfriend controls the rest of the party and NPCs. During combat is where things get interesting because it really requires me to get the most out of my tactical decisions, it feels sorta like playing a solo game of baldurs gate, controling the party and setting up combination attacks and such to make sure everyone gets out alive.

thank you!

I just bought this on your rec. Thank you for easing my fears on learning this new system! I wonder if the "Lite" rules are robust enough to run more than just the box?

Is all that stuff available on aon2e??

Great video

✨🪐⭐🌟😄 Thanks for the video

I've played Female characters as a Male myself, Gender never comes up other knowing than what pronouns to use

Personally I think the solarian looks like the most exciting, but I appreciate how they tried to give the Soldier its own unique flavor, not just fighter with a gun

I'm really excited about how the two caster classes (the mystic and witchwarper) are shaping up. A lot of Pathfinder 2e's casters feel a little samey due to not getting to interact much with the whole "three flexible actions per turn" thing, as casting a spell takes two of those actions. Starfinder 2e gives each of its two magic-users a special, unique thing they can do for a single action: mystics get a vitality network that lets them quickly share hit points with the party, while witchwarpers get a quantum field that creates an area of alternate reality weirdness. Combine these new bespoke actions with everyone getting a gun, and suddenly spellcasters feel really dynamic and flexible! Well, mystics do, anyway. The quantum field is currently a little too difficult to move around, so it doesn't get as much use as I'd like.

I have a couple of groups right now playing through A Cosmic Birthday. Some of the encounters (looking at You, Bronze Vesk statue!) could really use some help, but it's overall very good.

0:57 Not so. They mentioned in the playtest book that the final edition of the Starfinder 2e Core books WILL have all the rules that are also in the PF2e Core books, they just didn't re-print them in the SF2 book to conserve space. SF2 will be a standalone product.

If Cyberpunk appeals to you but you also like magic, check out Shadowrun. It's cyberpunk in a world where magic returns, as well as dragons, elves, dwarves, orcs and trolls. But the dragon hoards now consist of stock portfolios and the CEO of the world's largest corporation is a dragon. The setting is great, and there's an immense library of stuff for it. The system is rather complex, though. 6 editions each tried to fix the problems of the previous editions and introduced some new ones.

My party ended up with two conquering paladins. Shenanigans ensue

Still didn’t fix the fact that there are many ‘garbage’ options. Depending on class/race when you pick feats and such you either have options that a) have clearly better options which is really the illusion of choice or b) there are plenty of feats but only one for each style of character; like the fighter where pretty much every level’s feat is picked for you by the weapon you want to use.

Looks very cool!

Cool minis but I have a hard time putting minis together and painting them

DMDave did Horror RPG using the year zero engine. Also, Slash! RPG

anybody found recorded sessions of this game?

Great video! My DM. Just quit because one of the other players at the table kept meta gaming and telling other people what to do on their turns. I don't blame him but I was really enjoying the game and now I have to find a new table. Please stop meta gaming.

There are some typos and inconsistencies between the character sheets but I was blown away by this product from Paizo.

Cleaving Through might need a Penalty (-2 or -5?) for each time you're transferring the residual energy of your mighty blow to an adjacent creature, e.g. Attack is 21, Damage is 15, first target absorbs 5 damage before dying... 1st Residual Attack is 21-2=19, Damage is 15-5=10, second target absorbs 8 damage before dying... 2nd Residual Attack is 19-2=17, does not exceed third target's AC, remaining 2 Damage goes unspent Maybe it could be a custom feat or only if you have a heavy weapon (or both)? some of these, like Hitting Cover, just sound like exactly how I'd rule on situations like that

almost wondered what my own kid was saying in the other room before I saw your note at the bottom of the screen, extra spookiness!

Good video I don’t do horror games very well

Rule 0 / session 0 to know what's *not* OK to include. For me, no dead kids no dead pets.