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  1. lyle.spade

    ICv2 Reports Disappointing Year For Hobby Games Channel: TTRPGs Down, D&D Declines 30%

    Good points, and yet the company isn't helping the issue by pushing more things online. Consumers will go where stuff is cheap, but given WOTC's dominance of the market, they could choose to better support FLGSs; instead, their move to perhaps all or mostly digital is a huge middle finger to them.
  2. lyle.spade

    ICv2 Reports Disappointing Year For Hobby Games Channel: TTRPGs Down, D&D Declines 30%

    I wonder what share of FLGS RPG sales are books as compared to minis and other accessories. WOTC, by going more and more digital, is actually at least partially responsible for killing the physical stores that have served the community since the beginning. But all WOTC cares about is money, and...
  3. lyle.spade

    Crown and Skull: An Interview with Runehammer

    Thanks - details are helpful! :)
  4. lyle.spade

    Crown and Skull: An Interview with Runehammer

    I wish the game author would have provided some actual details about the system. I started reading, interested in learning something about the world and system, and came away with virtuality nothing but the game designer's conclusions, rather than any description.
  5. lyle.spade

    Colonial Gothic: An Interview with Richard G. Iorio

    I like that a lot. Who knows what he brought back from all those years in France...
  6. lyle.spade

    Colonial Gothic: An Interview with Richard G. Iorio

    Thank you. The setting is rich, in large part because the real-world backdrop is rich, and far more detailed and varied and interesting than most people realize. You know, I think the Federalist Papers might have had a spell or something like that woven into their words...yeah. Probably did...an...
  7. lyle.spade

    Colonial Gothic: An Interview with Richard G. Iorio

    I picked up digital version of a heap of these books years ago and found a lot to like in them, although the system at the time seemed a little counterintuitive and confusing. An updated version interests me...the period, and the author's knowledge of it and use of historical fact to anchor the...
  8. lyle.spade

    Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead'

    I read "Slaying the Dragon" after having read the far more detailed, far better sourced and supported, "Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons and Dragons." Riggs writes with a breezy sense of received knowledge, occasionally trading in conclusions that are poorly-supported and reasoned. His...
  9. lyle.spade

    GMing with Joy: Long Term Gamemastering

    I look forward to them!
  10. lyle.spade

    GMing with Joy: Long Term Gamemastering

    Well put; thoughtful; thank you. I am the Forever GM, too, and by choice. I enjoy it more than playing, even with all the additional work it entails. I think your recommendation to start small - promise a few sessions, or what I would call a "short arc" and then see where it goes from there...
  11. lyle.spade

    Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before By Yourself

    The rules are quite simple but like many of the line's books, they are not sequenced well. There are a great many details spread around the chapters. That said, it works well in play if you keep in mind that it's highly narrative and low on prescriptions. If you're lost while playing, ask...
  12. lyle.spade

    EN Publishing SPACE FIGHT! Starship Skirmishes Are Returning And They're All New!

    I see a FASA map and counters. Good stuff.
  13. lyle.spade

    A New Look for DriveThruRPG

    I like it, although if anyone reading this can communicate to them that increasing the font size in the wide buttons (publishers, genres, etc) would be nice for the older eyes.
  14. lyle.spade

    Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

    The site loads more quickly on my phone, but on a tablet and my desktop it's dreadful. The black letters in dark mode do not show up on the phone, either, but they do on the other two devices.
  15. lyle.spade

    Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

    Page and image loads are taking me back to the days of dial-up, and I've checked my end of the connection and it's not me. Also, since the slider was added, all the article titles default to black font, which makes them unreadable on my dark screen setting. I think someone needs to check to see...
  16. lyle.spade

    Dreams & Machines Is Modiphius' New Age of Roleplaying

    It's a form of 2d20, albeit stripped down and streamlined, from what I've heard.
  17. lyle.spade

    Modiphius' Conan TTRPG Is Ending

    I'm bummed that 2d20 Conan is coming to an end, however, given the aforementioned heap of books, and the fact that Modiphius, through them, covered pretty much all of Howard's canon, outside of adventures I don't think there was much else for them to produce. I love the system, and I think that...
  18. lyle.spade

    D&D General Dragon+ Content Going Away -- Whoops, It's Gone!

    We see in this a major drawback to content that's not really ours...that is, stuff we access via streaming or logins is really not ours. Kindle books, online music, this...if it's not on your HD alone, or your record shelf, or your bookcase, it's not yours and you can't truly control when you...
  19. lyle.spade

    Kingmaker Adventure Path

    I've heard it, too. The problem with the AP - and I'd say that this is the only glaring problem with it - was that the whole "crazy fey behind the scenes" plot thread wasn't developed enough, not foreshadowed enough in the first five books, and so dropping it on the party in book six was...
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