Recent content by SableWyvern

My current list of planned games, including only the ones I'm most serious about: Ars Magica in the Levant The Enemy Within (WFRP 4e) Planet-hopping, scifi adaption of Masks of Nyarlathotep using EABA Mythras Planescape Mythras Al Qadim Possibly revisting Mythras Dark Sun Rolemaster Dark Space...

Someone may have already mentioned this, but I find the Alexandrian's hexcrawl system to be amazing for actually creating a sense of exploration and navigating (literally and figuratively) the unknown. The use of landmarks as the primary navigation tools works brilliantly. Making tracks one of...

If I'm making it myself, I'm more of a steak sandwich man, myself. Hot mustard Vintage cheddar Streaky bacon Hot Hungarian salami Tomato Pickled onion Scotch fillet (ribeye) Egg BBQ sauce Turkish roll or toast When I am ordering a burger, I'm always happy to find a place that offers...

I would have to assume the saloon in the Western was another contemporary influence.

This can vary widely. When I was running Blades in the Dark, after the first session I did literally zero prep. I'd turn up to the session with absolutely no idea what would happen that night. Typically, I do a lot more than that, but often a significant proportion of it is pre-campaign prep --...

6 - 8 hours every second week, all year. Mythras early, Ascendent for most of the year, Rolemaster for the past couple of months. Voted 60+.

Yeah, the part of the OP that didn't really match my experience is the idea the a Setting of Despair generally defaults to the notion that long term change for the better is impossible. Even if that is true in the source fiction for a particular genre, it's not typically the way I'd run an RPG...

This is the first thing that came to mind for me. Not sure if it still gets much use today (it just occurred to me, it's a Rolf Harris song, which means many people would probably rather let it fade into obscurity). This one isn't as well known, but I recall it from my primary school days.

I didn't say anything about a slight; I'm saying your thesis is wrong.

Your thesis sounds very much like you are, indeed, wanting to argue against folks' lived experiences. If I may speak for myself, "the intimacy of experience" is absolutely not "a powerful element in my ongoing love of the genre" -- at least, not unless you define "intimacy of experience"...

Digging a bit deeper, it appears that the StartPlaying defines a "cozy" RPG as one designed "specifically for mental health healing". 50% of respondents playing or having played a "cozy" RPG still sounds a bit high to me, but depending on where they sourced their respondants, it's very...

I wouldn't be at all surprised by a large number of people saying games are good for their mental health. The part that surprised me was that a large number of people (50%, even) are saying they've participated in games specifically arranged for that purpose. I'll be running a Mythras Glorantha...

How is trauma being defined here? 75% of participants saying they're using roleplaying to deal with trauma sounds like a huge number, to me. Similarly, one third have played in a game that specifically arranged to assist with mental health? Ah, OK, now that I've looked at the actual results...

Oh, yeah, I also have the full set of *Without Number games, which I pick up in the knowledge there's likely to be something I can take from them to use in other stuff. I've used various world building and magic item creation rules from Worlds Without Number to support other fantasy games. I...