@craigofinspiration GMing #FreeformUniversal yeaaars ago and recently #ShadowdarkRPG plus reading #FiveTorchesDeep and #CairnRPG. The latter (#OSR and #NSR) have opened my eyes towards discarding elaborate, preplanned plots in favour of establishing situations and playing to find out. @HeyeBodo has been instrumental in this shift for me. 🖤
@kyonshi#VancianMagic is probably the element I like least about #dnd games. Yes, I get it: spell slots reinforce a resource-focused style of play. You run out of spell slots as you run out of torches, ammo, and hit points, but for me Vancian casting always represented a tool-like, somehow dull approach to sorcery. I prefer, how magic systems are re-envisioned in some modern #osr (adjacent) games: #DCC (😍) #Shadowdark#FiveTorchesDeep#TheBlackSwordHack …to name but a few