Engagement With and Without Skill Checks - How Often Should You Roll?

D&D and other RPGs didn't used to have skills and some modern games no longer use skills. Let's look at how often we roll impacts our play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbmpkPrCFI&list=PLC2nUvBg384PfQtNvMudHu03WZG5FRwh8&index=1
#DnD #TTRPG #Daggerheart #DrawSteel #Shadowdark

What kind of GM are you?

Greetings, programs! With the MCDM community’s help, I’ve prepared a survey of GM styles, so that I can use factor analysis to find the common variables underlying GMs’ responses, and come up with a scientific answer to “what kinds of GM styles are there?” The survey has 43 questions and takes a few minutes to complete. The more people answer, the better the data we’ll get.

EDIT: We got 101 responses and now we’re analysing the data. First results: There are 9 dimensions of GM style! Not sure what they are, but there’s 9 of them.

What is your GM style?

Greetings, programs! I'm using factor analysis to find a scientific answer to the question, "What kinds of GM styles are there?" You're going to answer 43 questions about your GM style. All of the questions have answers ranging from "strongly X" to "strongly Y". If you're neutral, strongly ambivalent, prefer a balance between the two options, or wish there were a third answer, click the middle option. If the question doesn't apply to you at all, skip it. Once all the data's in, I'll run the numbers and work out which questions have a lot of correlation with each other, so that GM style can be reduced to a few key factors. Those factors will be our most scientific answer to our research question. However, there's no such thing as objective science. Our questions were submitted by the MCDM community, so the final results will reflect the kinds of things the MCDM community thinks are important to ask about GM style, and the patterns of association in your responses. So if you want the factors we find to reflect who you are, please answer all the questions and send the survey to your friends. Special thanks to Matthew Colville for coming up with this research question, and to our question designers, Geddy Lee, Tgnewman, Argent, and tidnabemit. This survey was designed by Viridian Grail.

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Very cool seeing folks enjoy this week's video!

How Many PCs Can Try a Skill Check?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v79MAOwG-TE&list=PLC2nUvBg384PfQtNvMudHu03WZG5FRwh8&index=1

#DnD #ttrpg #DrawSteel #Daggerheart

Time for a #DrawSteel respite, except a hero’s Complication triggers and everyone is pulled onto a star cruiser, battling time raiders! Then a montage to escape the people they stole the ship from!
The heroes dash for the elevated door, but the Tomb Horror breaks the upper level, sending it to the ground! (Part of the upper balcony has been removed and placed at an angle on the ground. A hero still clings atop the huge plant and earth mini.) #DrawSteel
Fantastic #DrawSteel session as the heroes face a Tomb Horror and undead vine creatures in the Delian Tomb! One hero bravely climbed the horror! (Terraclips terrain shows a cracked formerly grand dungeon, with a wrap-around balcony. An enormous plant and earth creature and various small vines one’s.)

How Many PCs Can Try a Skill Check?

When one PC is about to roll a skill check, is it okay if the rest of the party tries too? How does Guidance and Advantage impact probability? And let's talk about how this impacts other RPGs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v79MAOwG-TE&list=PLC2nUvBg384PfQtNvMudHu03WZG5FRwh8

#DnD #Daggerheart #DrawSteel #ttrpg

Slight spoilers for the #DelianTomb but I'm so happy with how this terrain has turned out!

My own take on magnetic dungeon tiles plus some extra bits without nasty near-unrecyclable XPS foam :)

#terrain #terrainbuilding #scratchbuild #DrawSteel #ttrpg

Made of paper dolls for my #drawSteel session I've started running. They went down a treat.