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I second the horror/scary movie trope suggestion. PCs being the hunted instead of the hunters means that the DM can keep the pacing tight and not getting derailed, as the enemy will find them wherever they go until they die or escape (or defeat the monster). If you place them in a contained area where they have explore to find a way out, they can lay traps to slow down (or defeat) the monster, they can find clues as to the monsters strength or weakness, they can try to hide when they hear the monster drawing neat, they can find slightly helpful items (batteries that can be used for a flashlight or in a baby monitor as an early warning system, slippers for better sneaking but worse running, vodka for temporary HP but worse constitution, scissors or letter openers to distract in close combat for a chance to escape) but not straight up weapons, they can take damage to deal damage, or take damage to escape whenever they get found. The monster will let them think they've gotten away but they'll never be safe, it will always find them while they're in this location. The goal can be survive until sunrise, or try to get as many people out of the haunted house as possible, or survive/beat a set amount of the attractions at a demons fair to be released. It'll be lika a hit+run or cat+mouse game.

You should cross post this to @battlemaps@lemmy.world

Ahaha, that latter one is hilarious. There could also be some interesting concepts to explore around known problems with AI, including: - AI replacing and reducing cognitive skills, including critical thinking - Gerlich, M. (2025). AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking. Societies, 15(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006 - Kosmyna, N., Hauptmann, E., Yuan, Y. T., Situ, J., Liao, X.-H., Beresnitzky, A. V., Braunstein, I., & Maes, P. (2025). Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task (No. arXiv:2506.08872; Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872 - AI being capable of clearly describing logical procedures, but failing to apply them in instances that indicate that they don't actually understand what they are saying - Mancoridis, M., Weeks, B., Vafa, K., & Mullainathan, S. (2025). Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models (No. arXiv:2506.21521; Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.21521 - Definition of "bullshit" as a form of information generation with either no care for truth, or an active disdain for truth. - Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(2), 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

For Foundry I found it even easier to use the module "tokenizer" haven't used token stamp for a while because of it. https://foundryvtt.com/packages/vtta-tokenizer/

[Fangelsehala](https://diekugames.com/fang/) includes using a "Doom Stack" for health. Basically you have to stack d6s as you take damage and when the stack falls, that's when your character dies.

[!Traveller@ttrpg.network](https://ttrpg.network/c/Traveller) and other [!scifi@ttrpg.network](https://ttrpg.network/c/scifi) games often feature that.

Yeah I dunno, using Firefox mobile the enworld link doesn't load for me ‍️

Yeah, cool. Makes sense. I think I just need to play a bunch more in order to start being able to see how to use those in the context of a mission story arc

How does it differ in philosophy to MGME, if I may ask?

Still here lurking!

This is so awesome!

Stupid characters (but actually not that stupid) are actually pretty fun. And technically speaking, necromancer are just *late physician*

This also relates to my mention elsewhere in this discussion of what used to be called "special snowflakes" (before the birdsite ruined the word "snowflake"). Some people want novelty and creativity above all in their RP, and that doesn't always come with a sense for how to balance that with intended theme or tone. And as you point out, if *no one* is playing things remotely straight, things can become farcical, or at least like an "Oops! All Foils" situation with no requisite normal.

I've heard many good things about Ironsworn, so this is a good excuse to give it a go.

Nah I'm just bad at undirected tasks, get everyone organized, code a physics engine from scratch, those I can get motivated for. Tell people what to do once they're organized or actually build a game out of those functioning mechanics? No clue.

You had me at Furbies. Oh wait, I can't read.

I'm very much "old man yells at cloud" so I don't really watch actual plays or consume podcasts, but the fate site has a list: https://fate-srd.com/actual-play I can't speak to their quality, but there's a bunch on that list. The game should feel different than DND. Players have a lot more control, and that kind of affects every aspect of the game. DND tends to put everything on the DM, and players can only do stuff in character. a fate player can be like "I want to spend a fate point to say the king is in fact looking for a witch to _hire_" or "I wanna declare a story detail: the farm is run by a family of loyalists, so I'm a loyalist they will hopefully see me as a friend". That plus the ways to change rolls and outcomes makes for a different game. And the lack of focus on minutia like distance and spells per day.