Recent content by MGibster

Running a business is certainly a different skillset from designing games. I've never really thought of Shadowrun from that point of view. I kinda get where you're coming from, trolls and orcs typically being the bad guys in most games, but they never really came off like that in Shadowrun to...

It reminds me of old school miniatures from back in the day when someone sculpted it by hand rather than drafting it on a computer. It's pretty terrible, but that's what makes it so charming.

We're not talking about cyberpunk as a genre here, we're talking about a specific game. Style Over Substance: "It doesn't matter how well you do something , as long as you look good doing it." Attitude is Everything: "Never walk into a room when you can stride in. Never look at someone...

One bad decision away from going viral at a bar or nightclub is what we thought of the Cowboys in the early 1990s.

Thank you. I started out with a darker blue and then stippled on lighter and lighter layers of blue in smaller and smaller areas to get a sort of gradient. I finished it off with a nice glossy coat to make it extra shiny.

That's fair. I simply can't be bothered to have that many encounters per day because it's just so tedious. Given how long combat takes in D&D, knowing an encounter is there that is inconsequential other than knocking down a few resources drives me nuts.

I keep trying to win this game but I can't seem to get ahead.

Okay, just to keep you from coming at me with pitchforks and torches; If you and your group are having fun then you're playing the game correctly. But....are you really playing the game correctly? i.e. As it was envisioned by the creators? There are games where there seems to be a dissonance...

There's a reverse of this. I had a friend, an avid board gamer, who couldn't quite wrap his head around always played D&D. He could not understand why someone would use the same set of rules week after week after week. I had to explain to him that each weekly scenario could be quite different...

This is where a lot of conspiracy theorist get turned around. They become hyper focused on some detail they can't find a good explanation for or they just don't understand it and it's proof the generally accepted narrative is wrong. Real life is complicated and you'll rarely be able to fill in...

These are robo-brains from Fallout. I don’t try too much new or interesting with these. I went a little light on the wear and tear.

I used to frequent Yog way back when. A few years back, I tried to log in and my credentials didn't work. I tried creating a new account and it wouldn't let me for some reason. I simply gave up after that. It was a great Cthulhu website.

It's kind of sad I didn't know who Tim Kask was until a few years ago. Until fairly recently, I never took an interest in how the sausage was made, Kask had left the gaming industry before I started playing, and another name had become synonymous with D&D. I've appreciated various efforts over...

The first time I read the rules I had a real "duh" moment. It was such an elegant solution to a problem I had had with many investigative games, Call of Cthulhu included. And yet you're correct about it being utterly simple. Another thing I like about Gumshoe is you don't always even need the...