As long as the game doesn't involve any interstate travel the players might survive. Otherwise difficulty for any and all lane changing and merges is going to be at between 8-10 difficulty. Good luck getting gas after dark too.
Gas gas gas you gotta step on the gas.
It could be interesting if you wanted to run a short idea involving a road trip, like maybe something about fugitives. It would depend a lot on what system you're using and how much your players are interested in tracking that sort of thing.
All the PCs in my games had ready sources of gasoline, alcohol, bullets, and whatever else they needed. Could they do what they needed to do? Maybe not. But they always had what they needed to do it.
It was semi-serious.
I never had that directly. I'm pretty generous with respecing and backup characters.
I've wanted to run something like that for a while. Never got the chance. Basically a road trip through a post apocalypse with people scavenging for fuel and supplies. There was some Savage Worlds ruleset (I think it was Hell on Earth Reloaded) that I was going to use. Iirc it abstracts loot into a single "supplies" resource with tables on what they find and where. I even designed a point crawl with different encounters.
I always allow you to un-fuck your build, unless it's a game with random chargen. You didn't realize True Strike was a useless cantrip? No big deal, I won't punish you for a full year of play for that choice.
Yeah, zero issues with this and I've had players request it and I've let them just straight up do in in real time at the table... if they shouldn't know better. If you've been doing this long enough I ain't cutting you slack unless it's a straight up error otherwise I'm going to assume you were trying to get cute with some build you read about somewhere.
This is interesting. I've definitely noticed a bit of apathy when it comes to PCs and dying lately. I think part of it is on me with not being harsher on losing characters insofar as lingering penalties or something for the guy who comes back (just to add a bit of friction beyond having to make a new character sheet) but I think is just a natural game thing too where if they survive longer you get more attached to it versus having a new character you rolled up just get smashed badly or fail some devastating skill check and it's bye bye - who cares, hasta la vista.
Can't tell you how many times I've seen someone with one of the cute builds they read about online that would have been better served by writing "Human Fighter - Champion" at the top of their sheet and just hitting things with their sword.
Champion Fighter is fucking great when you don't have some bitchmade EK with a booming blade cantrip talking shit about it in your ear.
For me it very much depends.
Do you like playing SimCity and/or Minecraft? If yes, you will probably like domain play. If no...
Even for Birthright, domain play can be (almost) as hands-on or hands-off as the players want it to be. Players can always choose to hire/appoint a manager/vizier to keep things running smoothly while they're killing dragons, plotting against each other, and occasionally getting their asses kicked by liches, and the GM can adjust how much interaction the domain will require to keep running smoothly.
It also can lead to amusing scenarios where they have to take back their realm if the Vizier they hired was ambitious or against their alignment due to their neglect as well.
The main issue with domain play in my experience is it almost always is mostly just one or two players that really want and are willing to manage it for the others. It tends to result in some lopsided scenarios depending on how often it gets brought to the forefront. Eventually we cottoned on it worked better as a background management thing that we did with the DM in between sessions, or if not enough of us showed, a smaller session to get everyone on board.
the couple times I touched on domain play, players generally got into the "Building a secret fort in the woods" aspect and trying to min-max their passive income, but weren't super interested in playing Game of Thrones - they were there to
Sim City hell yeah but it's been awhile. I've never touched Minecraft and probably never will. I would just be there for the ride as the DM. Whatever they wanted to do I'd just be providing it. ALso 3 of the players involved all enjoy PC strategy wargames. Myself and one of them enjoyed the Brigandine series. I haven't brought it to the table as an option but have mentioned it in passing.
I could see at least one of them being interested in that. I've also considered just starting them out landless. I know one of the players for sure would get low key power hungry once he figures out he can go Highlander and take blood abilities. It'd start out like putting a pot of ice water on a stove. It'll take a while but once it starts rolling it'll boil over hard and cause all kinda of problems (aka fun in tabletop)
Castle Caldwell or Horror on the Hill would be a good starting point for that sort of thing.
I've played a campaign where this was introduced but didn't get utilised a lot because the DM didn't lean into it enough and we weren't chillin in the base or using it as much as would have made sense in this case. That said, the second you give PCs something to do with their money beyond just Buy Better Gear especially in the context of a tangible home base you can fix up and upgrade and staff etc. you can see the neurons and dopamine receptors firing in their brains. It's like candy for them, I swear to God.
RaHoWa has basic mechanical problems whether you care about racism or not. The Athlete class having infinity hit points, for example.