Author: Hannah Banks

I’ve now played in 1 session and run a couple sessions of Beam Saber. It’s a Forged in the Dark hack with mechs inspired by most of gundam and similar mech things. I’ve been having fun running it but it’s also my first FitD system. Run a couple of PBTA sessions also (2ish dozen). Any advice you wish you heard about blades systems when you started? Advice on how to decide what complications and ‘secret’ reveals that pop up? Also I can post a link to the session as we record them.

Fourth World Hack

So we ended up dropping The Veil of the campaign I had. A lot of player rotation and a few other things. It was a blast but our dynamic changed too much. Now we have a new group assembled and we settled on Fourth World, the hack of Dungeon World. (Action Movie World was a close second and will be an interlude game when the one player who doesn’t really feel it is absent) that I really like a lot of the changes too (like aiding, some of the depth and flavor) but also a lot is “out there” and I’m wondering if there’s any advice on how to treat players differently.

I’ve run dungeon world about 11 times and a lot more pbta sessions so that’s par for the course, but are there any good advice touchstones for, say, “naming art” or a different way to approach the story telling?

If it helps, the players are going for a low area type story or one that doesn’t have the world ending stakes. the anime “Konosuba” was a touchstone along stuff like Harvest Moon & and Spiderman Homecoming.

Hey y’all, I’m about to run my first game of THE VEIL soon for a group. It isn’t my first PBTA (mostly DW) or roll20 game but I was wondering if anyone had any tips they wish they’d heard when they ran it.

Edit addition: also using a google doc for touchstones, world/group notes, and the realization we want way too much synthwave