RPGnet Newsletter #45March 8, 2016New Columns

Brent Dedeaux was back with a new issue of Tales from the Rocket House, this one covering a problem that (probably) all RPG groups have had to confront: "Missing Players and Shifting Groups."

Also new last week was Christopher Cecil's latest Fuzzy Thinking: "Goggling Characters."

New Reviews

RPGnet posted two great new reviews last week:

Threads You Might Have Missed

The Newsletter typically avoids recommending straight-up comedy threads, but this was a special moment in TRO: "What 'Big Roleplaying' Doesn't Want You to Know."

A common issue that comes up in licensed settings is what to do about all those 'famous' people that your players aren't playing: Is it deprotagonizing to interact with a 'hero' of the setting? What to do about canon? How mechanically powerful should the PCs be in relation to the established characters? Some very useful perspectives on these and other issues can be found in: "When you campaign in 'established' worlds, do you like to meet famous NPCs?"

This next thread gets pretty contentious at times - another type of thread the Newsletter generally avoids recommending, but it's that kind of week - but is well worth the read regardless because of all of the insightful commentary related to game design. Head over to Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design for "Skill Systems and Attributes, Depending on Your Game, a Couple DO's and DON'Ts" for some thoughts from RPGnet's resident game designers on RPG mechanical design.

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제목만 봐도 흥미로운 기사와 토론이 많네. "세션에서 플레이어가 빠졌을 경우 대처하는 법"이라던가, "캠페인에 설정된 유명 NPC들을 활용하는 편인가?"라는 토론 게시글이랑.
언데드를 다룬 D&D 3.5 서플 리뷰(... 3.5 서플을 지금 리뷰한다고?)와 한국에도 좀 알려진 '마이크로스코프' 리뷰도 있어.

자세한 내용 요약은 영어에 능통한 분이 해 줄 거라 믿어! 나도 제목밖에 못 읽었어!