I primarily run Daggerheart, so I get to use the mechanics of allowing players make rolls to apply Stress to an adversary that they are interrogating. But I am thinking about stealing the concept of Motivations and Pitfalls from Draw Steel's Negotiation system to add a little variety to those encounters. For example, a PC decides to go the intimidation route and wants to make a Presence roll to threaten the adversary with violence. If that adversary is a low-level henchman whose Motivations include avoiding pain at all costs, maybe the PC gets advantage on the roll. But if the adversary is a loyal lieutenant trained to withstand torture, now the PC gets disadvantage on the roll.

@Jay George I *love* Mothership! I only recently learned about the existence of Orbital Blues. Have you already played that one, and if so how did you like it?

@Jay George I might argue Mothership is *best* for one-shots. If your characters survive longer than that they're doing better than most of mine have 🤣 If you want to run a longer campaign, there are rules to tone down the difficulty so characters last longer, but typically out of the gate the adventures are pretty deadly

@Jordan Peacock I saw on your bio that you're running Good Society! Do you have any tips for running that one? My wife has no experience with TTRPGs, but she's a rabid Jane Austen fan. I think I've got her interested in trying this out, and I really want to knock it out of the park on the first session so she'll want to keep playing.

I still like to play D&D, but I've found that I just enjoy several other games even more. I'm fortunate that my local game store has several players and GMs that play a variety of games, so I've been able to experience several new favorites: 1. Daggerheart: This is my go-to game and the one I primarily run for people. The biggest things I enjoy about it are the Hope & Fear mechanics and Environments. 90% of my prep for a game is probably creating Environments and then seeing which ones my players move in to. It really fit the way my GMing brain works. 2. Mothership: This was the first non-D&D TTRPG that I tried, and I fell in love with it. The rules are simple and brilliant, and I've never had more fun watching my own characters meet creatively gruesome ends. 3. Dolmenwood: I haven't actually played or run this one, yet, but I'm planning to run it later this year. It's such a cool setting, and I've been stealing monsters from it to convert into Daggerheart adversaries for an upcoming campaign

@James Willetts Classic! I love it

Hello! I'm Mike, and I have a few years of experience running D&D 5E and Daggerheart one-shots. I'm preparing to run my very first mini-campaign in Daggerheart using the Witherwild frame, and I've been reading *The Game Master's Handbook of Collaborative Campaign Design* because I want to encourage my players to have a hand in creating the game they'll be playing! One day I also hope to find time to run some games in Mothership, Fatherfog, Dolmenwood/OSE, and DCC

@Jonah Fishel Will do! My table is rounding out our roster for this campaign, and then we'll hopefully be jumping into Session -1 this month