Recent content by MGibster

I'd have the owner of the vehicle make a Luck roll because I'd assume they were the one taking care of it. There are no rules in Deadlands suggesting PCs automatically reload their weapons. I'm sure such rule exist in some game somewhere, but I don't think I've ever encountered it in any game...

How much is an RPG book worth? Right now, I think many of the RPGs I purchase cost anywhere between $50-60, and I think they're a bargain at that price. In 1989 I paid $18 for the AD&D 2nd Player's Handbook which comes out to the equivalent of about $41 today. And while the PHB in 1989 was a...

I always thought of skilled play as how well players handle the abilities of their characters to accomplish goals within the game. Like if the PC comes across a small opening in a wall that's just a little too small for them to fit, so he decides to cast Grease on himself to make it easier for...

Ha! In Curse of Strahd (again), the PCs were invited into the Abbot's home where he treated them as guests. The PCs noticed at item they were looing for on his fireplace mantle. When the Abbot was in the other room, they stole it and left. When the Abbot caught up to them, he was pissed, and...

And that's fair. The situation isn't the same so the solution is also unlikely to be the same. I just find it a bit unseemly for a for-profit enterprise to ask for donations.

I've generally found offers of food tend to make players suspicious. Like I'll have an NPC offer food and drink to a PC and suddenly they're paranoid that I'm trying to get one over on them. The only time anything like that has come close to happening was in Curse of Stahd (if you know, you...

What's "proper" Mexican food is a matter of debate here in the United States though I think there's universal agreement that Taco Bell isn't it. Like most fast food places, you go to Taco Bell because it's convenient and tastes good enough. I don't know about the UK, but here in the US Taco...

I like Taco Bell. Do they make the best tacos and burritos? No. Not even close. But if I need a quick bite to eat I'm more than happy to make a run for the border. Maybe get a Mexican Pizza if I'm feeling frisky. I also like Texas Roadhouse. For the price point, I think their steaks are...

To be fair, it might not be the OP's fault as a GM. Over the course of my years, I've run into many players who seem to suffer from post-traumatic GM syndrome. Sometimes this can manifests in quirky behavior, like the player in my Deadlands game who made it a point to get my attention and tell...

I've got some reservations about donating to a for-profit enterprise. When Palladium found itself in dire straits because an employee embezzled possibly more than $1,000,000, the "Crisis of Treachery"™® back in 2006, Kevin Siembieda didn't ask for donations, he asked fans to purchase a limited...

Oh, man. I don't know about you, but I'd like to go at least one day without hearing about Captain America's rear end or his junk. Just one day!!

This looks amazingly bad. Hopefully it'll be so bad it's good.

While I don't really view D&D as a western, mainly because it shares so few of the tropes, I do agree it shares a debt. As the Old West isn't really the same as the historical west, D&D is more like a Renaissance Faire which isn't anything like either the medieval or renaissance period. In the...

My player's characters are level 8 now, so they've got more gold than they really need. My plan was to test out the rules for bastions, so I discussed it with my players a few sessions ago and it turns out they have no desire to pursue that avenue. They just don't see any meaningful benefit to...

Usually a revisionist western is one that subverts the traditional conventions found in westerns such as the inclusion of morally ambiguous "heroes," a little less myth and a little more realism, and by not providing a clear line between the black hats and the white hats. I honestly find it...