Alex Kierkegaard's Metaverse

[icycalm]

This forum used to be called "Ultimate Edition". I've now renamed it to "Roleplaying". Its purpose is to cover all TTRPGs (tabletop roleplaying games), GMRPGs (Game Master Roleplaying Games, which are TTRPG videogames), as well as licensed CRPGs. Licensed means that Baldur's Gate counts, but Mass Effect doesn't. Solasta also counts because, even though it has an original setting and adventure, the rules are licensed (D&D 5E). In short, if it was dreamt up by videogame developers, it's shit, so it doesn't count. If it was made by roleplaying authors, it's great so it counts. In the case of Baldur's Gate, the adventure is shit because it was written by videogame developers, but the setting and rule system rock because they were written by roleplaying authors. The Divinity: Original Sin games don't count because every aspect of them was made by videogame people. Even the tiniest little bit of content written by roleplaying authors elevates a game, so if any part of the game at all is licensed, it counts for inclusion in this forum.

If you put a thread in the wrong forum, no worries, I'll fix it, and there will always be borderline cases that will require a call on a case-by-case basis.

In addition, we have two subforums: Ultimate Edition, and Battlegrounds.



"Ultimate Edition" is where my game's rules go, and "Battlegrounds" is for content relating specifically to my setting.

Note that the "Ultimate Edition" subforum is further divided into two sections: stickied at the top are the Ultimate Edition book chapters, and right below them is a section for what GMs call "house rules", which are basically rules that I have modified in my game. However, since my game's rules are collectively known as Ultimate Edition, and are published, they aren't mere house rules: these modifications are also part of the Ultimate Edition rules, and to make this clear I have designated them with the UE tag, like so:



I've also renamed the relevant Discord channels to take into account the above classification changes. All this should make relevant content easier to find, especially when we need it fast, during play.

I am sure I've misplaced some threads during this reorganization, and I'll be fixing these as I find them. If you find any kind of error, bump the relevant thread and let me know.

[icycalm]

I changed this subforum's name from "Roleplaying" to "Alex Kierkegaard's Metaverse". This is because with the launch of Alex Kierkegaard's Battlemaster—which is the world's first and only tactical metaverse—this subforum will start covering also miniature wargame news, meaning tactics game news. Moreover, it will cover all kinds of news on the franchises that comprise my metaverse: Alien movies, Blade Runner comics, Warhammer TV shows, etc. In short my metaverse has gone from roleplaying-only to ALL TURN-BASED GENRES (and in the 2030s with the launch of Battlegrounds 2.0 [ > ] it will also add all real-time ones).


P.S. What is the difference between Alex Kierkegaard's Metaverse and Alex Kierkegaard's Multiverse? Metaverse is the out-of-game term, and multiverse the in-game. I.e. we talk about the metaverse, and the characters in it talk about the multiverse. That's all.