Mechanics
This System has arguably popularized the simplified concept of Advantage//Disadvantage.
Powered by the apocalypse uses exclusively this type of die.
What is a d6
This awakened animal companion pretended at being a human noble in a well known greentext story.
Who/What is Sir Bearington
This creature appears in the first season of Stranger Things and is named after a D&D monster the protagonists had faced.
What is the demogorgon?
The host of this Actual Play podcast is also acclaimed for voicing Jotaro Kujo in the English dub of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Who is Matthew Mercer?
The Toreador, Nosferatu and Brujah are three of the clans featured in this game.
What is Vampire: The Masquerade.
This mechanic refers to the ability of dice in some systems to be rerolled when landing on their maximum number, allowing for multiplied effect.
What are exploding dice?
What is Fantasy High
This renowned drow adventurer started life as a sidekick to a different canon character, before being expanded on through his own series of novels
Who is Drizzt Do'Urden.
This founding member of the modern hobby is well known for his statement "females do not play RPGs because of a difference in brain function."
Who is Gary Gygax
This game's conflict resolution requires players to make pulls from a Jenga(tm) tower.
What is Dread?
Astragalomancy uses carved bone dice to conduct this specific cultural practice.
What is fortune telling
This building was mistaken by one player for a monster and attacked before the party fled.
What is a Gazebo
An episode of this show was temporarily taken down from streaming platforms due to the portrayal of a characters LARP as their PC.
What is Community?
This author created a magic system for his world that would then be adopted by "prepared spellcasters" in Dungeons & Dragons. The lich Vecna is named after him.
Who is Jack Vance?
This science-fiction system earned a reputation for the ability of characters to die before completing character creation.
What is Traveler.
This ancient Mesopotamian game is played with a set of four-sided dice and is one of the oldest known board games.
What is the Royal game of UR
This actual play podcast got an official book reframing the adventuring life as equivalent to working in a corporate startup.
What is Aquisitions incorporated
A video game adaptation of this system included 7 goat heads as a kickstarter backer's reward
What is Mörk borg
Her contribution have been widely felt from Dragon magazine to dark tower to quake 2. Her name has become a term for level design philosophy.
Who is Janell Jaquays.
This role playing game has your life line tied to the light you have at your table.
What is Ten Candles.
This game developer's name is attached to many non-standard dice including the d3, d5, d14, d16 and d24.
Who is Lou Zocchi ?
Darwinian character creation was the introductory chapter of this green text.
what is the all guardmen party.
This video game from Interplay Productions was initially planned to run on GURPS until a legal dispute caused the license to be revoked.
What is Fallout
This designer from D&D's Deck of Many Things (2024) is attributed with creating Asteria, the game's first canonically autistic character.
Who is Makenzie De Armas