Recent content by MGibster

I used to think you were cool! I jokingly refer to Fate as "That game where you try to convince your GM your Aspect applies to the situation even if it makes no sense." I haven't played it in a number of years. This is where I suspect WotC would like to take D&D but they've been failing since...

Are you kidding? The d4 has the most painful points in all of gaming.

This looks ridiculously awesome! I can't wait for to run some scouting adventures.

Terrible is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Over the years, I've been told I was a bad GM on several occasions online. I've been told I'm a bad GM for not allowing a player to create a Mage or Werewolf character for a Vampire campaign. When I mentioned that I'd replaced Swim and...

I'm been GMing on and off for about thirty years now and I still fail on occasion! I think it's the social skills that makes GMing most difficult in that you have to be comfortable managing people. You've got to balance the needs of each player against one another as well as your own desires...

When I started gaming back in the late 1980s, we didn't have anyone to compare ourselves against aside from the other people we gamed with and letters/articles in places like Dragon Magazine. A new GM today might be comparing themselves directly against Jason Carl or Matt Mercer whereas I could...

And just like that! I'm out. I was scrolling on the YouTubes when I came across a Batman short. Joker is making fun of Absolute Batman and Last Christmas was the background music. At first I wasn't sure if it was a cover, but when the lyrics kicked in I knew I'd be whammed. That's okay. I...

This is the first year I don't have an RPG to nominate. I'm glad to see all the other nominations though.

I'm five days in and still no Last Christmas. I'm not even trying! Come on, Wham! I'm here! Come get me!

I saw someone on BlackTwitter say they were preparing to introduce Gen Z to a new streaming service called Cable.

I just heard Christmas Wrappings by the Waitresses. My season is complete.

Did reindeer trample your heart or something?

I don't really think a lot of us appreciate the logistical planning and execution that goes into making such a large event successful. We don't think about how the sausage is made, we just enjoy eating it. Changing venue can be a difficult decision, but it sounds like it was to their benefit...

And the sad truth is that nobody really knows what's going to be successful. You can hedge your bets, but at the end of the day even good movies sometimes fail to find an audience.

There were a number of bestselling Ravenloft novels in the 1990s including I, Strahd and Vampire of the Mist. I don't think the IP has negative value.