Recent content by overgeeked

That perfectly describes a lot of what WotC's been doing for years.

I don't care what WotC does with the setting as long as they open it up to the DM's Guild. It would be great if they did it justice though. Would be the first WotC product I've bought in years if they do even a passable job.

Also, as an aside, this is one of the few consistently positive and enjoyable threads on the site. It would be great if posters here didn't start falling into the general ENWorld culture of endlessly fighting anyone who dares disagree with anything they say. Different people like different...

Yep. Especially when you’re lugging around a few hundred to a few thousand ebooks on your ereader like I do. My wife keeps 2-3 books on hers as she systematically reads what she wants. I just dump them all on my ereader, sort into collections, and read whatever strikes my fancy in the moment...

So many. But I’ll limit it to… WFRP Enemy Within. Any of the big three for Call of Cthulhu. Beyond the Mountains of Madness, Masks of Nyarlathotep, or Horror on the Orient Express. Something sprawling and epic in Dark Sun. Something of a redo of Star Trek: Voyager as an open-world sandox...

This is one big reason I love ebooks. I can just set the font, size, kerning, leading, justification, etc however I want.

You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proven to work? Medicine.

A few of other games that can really help with running Call of Cthulhu would be Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, and Mothership. Monster of the Week for the amazing monster and mystery creation rules and fronts (aka countdowns). Blades in the Dark for the great presentation of clocks...

Can’t wait.

That’s amazing. So much of that makes me smile. The pro-union bit, the first stretch goal being extra money for the video creator, the anti-“AI” message, the two pay-it-back tiers, and the hard times tier. Add in the fact that they have given away the mechanics for free all these years. The...

A note for the length discussion. A Game of Thrones is 720 pages long. The unabridged audio book is 33 hours 46 minutes. A 4-hour podcast is equivalent to a short story. All the scrolling is equivalent to thousands of micro stories. They’re not equivalent to one big book. Or whether you simply...

Started What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool. Only a dozen or so pages in so far but it's a great read. Filled to overflowing with info about the Victorian era and London. Exactly the kind of stuff that can help bring an historical game to life. All the details, all the...

We rarely do burgers. Stopped regularly eating beef years ago. Now it’s chicken burgers or garden burgers. Nothing beats a cordon bleu. Breaded and fried chicken, hopefully with some heat. Sliced ham. Melted swiss cheese. Divine.

Hmm. I haven’t encountered that. Do you think a lighter or simpler version would make it easier to grok?

Downtime does seem like a bit more convoluted version of clocks. Have you done negotiations yet? If so, how was it?