Banana Man posted:

senrath posted:

That looks to be from the original Hackmaster which was designed as a parody.

Plutonis posted:

Someone please run something that isn't PBTA or Warhammer Fantasy!!! I want to play game!

8one6 posted:

"You will not be employed by LFGM"

This is such a horrible idea.

Yeah, I'm betting that they're, at best, trying to be the Uber of GMs and will take a cut of whatever you make, but letting the GMs set their own price just means that...


...everyone will try to undercut everyone else until you're making less than minimum wage.

And that's not even factoring what a GM even does both at and away from the table.

US Minimum Wage is $7.25, so someone's going to argue that a 4 hour session shouldn't cost more than $29. It's only going to spiral down from there.

Which begs the question: How much is GMing, as a potential service, worth?

I don't know how you all GM, but for a 4 hour session I've already put way more than 4 hours of work into it. And I'm doing all of that to have fun with friends. For a bunch of strangers I don't personally know I'd be wary of even running for them, but I guess if I had to set a price I'd run a pre-written module (so if I had to work with multiple groups I'd only have to do the prep once) and likely charge $30/player for a 4 hour session.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Very much this. The heart of GURPS is 3d6-roll-under, with a success if you get a result equal to or less than your skill.

This means that anyone with a 16 or higher is going to succeed more often than not, which further translates to the game being a tug-of-war between the GM trying to impose penalties to bring that skill lower, versus players trying to increase skills (and engineering diegetic situations) to where they can overpower those penalties.

All the other rules and books and supplements are about implementing consistent and reasoned-out penalties, but the Action - Exploits supplement that I mentioned even goes as far as to say that the GM can just as easily implement a global, generic penalty representing a billion other specific things, and simply adjust that one big penalty up and down depending on the course of the plot.

Foglet posted:

It's WFRP 3e that used it.

thefakenews posted:

I'm working on a PbtA game about 17th century monster hunters. Whenever I run a playtest, I try to give people a quick overview of significant historical events from the period and some info about technology and such (at a pretty basic level, as I'm not an expert) but I am always struck by how almost every player's expectations about setting details are 200 years too early or 200 years to late. If it isn't high middle ages then it must be the Victoria era!

Xiahou Dun posted:

Uh. Shakespeare?