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Yeah, that's all pretty much what I had in mind. I like the idea of using a threat pool or some GM currency to introduce/upgrade new enemies or threats. Feels very thematic for Stargate.

Thanks, @RobAbrazado!

There’s already been one Stargate RPG from the early 2000s. If you guessed that it was a d20 OGL game based on that first sentence alone, give yourself a pat on the back. It used Spycraft as a base chassis, with new gear and some special feats, prestige classes, gear, etc. to make it ‘Stargate’ but ...

Fired up Jade City by Fonda Lee and it is excellent so far. Very taut and tense in a densely imagined and realized Asian-inspired fantasy setting. I unfairly keep mentally comparing it to The Godfather . It's doing its own thing brilliantly but it's a story of a crime family during a transfer of pow...

I've finished up the Dinocalypse trilogy and King Khan . There was quite a shift in voice between authors in the Dinocalypse stories as Carrie Harris took over for the third book. I'm glad she didn't try to mimic Chuck Wendig's style; that wouldn't have worked. I enjoyed the trilogy quite a lot. Kin...

There's a lot to unpack here. My first impression and understanding is that it refers specifically to MC moves, but I don't have a game handy at the moment to cite chapter and verse. There's reasoning behind this. First is that it not speaking the name of MC moves keeps the MC interactions specifica...

I'm so happy Doggy McDogface made it to the episode title.

This was an absolute blast; everyone else was playing big, over the top roles. I just let them bounce off me by playing the straight man.

Have you heard of the Parsely line of games from Jared Sorensen? They basically do this, except it's a party game so one person plays the computer and the room plays the character. It's a fun time. Action Castle is the most well known of the games but he's done a few. http://www.memento-mori.com/

A term I've seen used in a few superhero RPGs is Editor and I really like that. It's not gendered. There's the benefit of positioning that player as one with a certain kind of authority but not one of dominance or control. It also helps steer things away from the trope of the GM as 'a frustrated nov...

I just got a shipment from Evil Hat of the rest of the Spirit of the Century fiction line. (Well, mostly. The distributor oopsed and sent me Monster of the Week rather than Dinocalypse Forever - the product codes are a single digit apart - but Evil Hat's sending me the right book.) I think I've foun...