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You'd think so. But language and language are not synonyms either. Common mistake.

Every day is a bad time for my annual RPG budget. Oof, I was interested but yeah, that is the priciest PDF I've ever seen. I can get whole boxsets for that price!

I think the difference is that the pineapple thread is obviously offtopic. He focuses on communities built around a specific thing (in most cases a product). If we take his own product as example, lots of people get excited for Draw Steel. They get together and they start talking about it...

To those that are a bit put off by the length, I'd say that the first half is the most relevant to the current discussion about topics, roughly 30 minutes of it if it helps. Once he starts talking about Price, it swerves into a slightly different lane (not that it's not interesting, the price of...

Burning Wheel has rules for fighting. But I've found out of all the games I've played, it can satisfyingly go on the longest without any combat and still be captivating. Currently running a 11th century anglo-saxon/viking campaign and we have yet to have a fight. And if you want to stretch...

Matt makes this distinction in the full fledged video. I'm paraphrasing, but coming and saying "I'm unhappy with this aspect of 5E, it doesn't work for me. Am I misunderstanding it? What could I do if I want to achieve X?" is technically being critical of the game, but not out of dislike of the...

So, Matt Colville released a video about community building recently. I like Matt, he's a smart guy and I almost always learn something from his videos, or they're just generally interesting. So his latest video was definitely on my radar. Then, I heard/read it being praised by three...

The fact that they'll offer a free PDF with some of the content there eases me. I'm especially interested in the examples of play.

Edit: Of course, only after posting, on second viewing do I notice that there's a thread already existing. Old-School Essentials — 2026 and Beyond So, as I'm still eargerly waiting for an email saying that my big box of Dolmenwood is on its way, I received an email this weekend. Necrotic Gnome...

Some rulesets allow you to have a bonus if you take an action or move action to aim instead of moving. I've added a house rule a few times where if you moved, you had either a malus or disadvantage on your ranged attacks. You either took the time to aim and shoot, or you skipped around and did...

I did the same mistake earlier this year. Great motivation to organize all of it. Put it all on the floor, motivation dissipates. That's a high CR trap right there.

I almost always do dark settings. Whether it's a story of hope or despair depends on my players and their characters. I don't think the setting is inherently hopeful or in despair.

Man, people were a bit shocked at the Age of Sigmar and the newer Fantasy RPG (The Old World?) being announced. And now this. They're releasing so much material.

We know they're not mutually exclusive. We just like a different tone, we have different sensibilities. I don't think whimsy and duck characters are childish. I just like darker, political, grounded campaigns. And I'm not complaining, I didn't buy Dragonbane because I expected monsters and...

Now I might be interested! Trudvang always seemed like an interesting setting I wanted to read about. Dragonbane also seemed interesting but the quoted elements pushed it into a tone that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I'll wait and see for the content of the books, but if there's a few...

For anyone curious, here's the original trademark by Talsorian. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73817122&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch And here's the one filed by CD Projekt thereafter...

The thing is, if I wanted to use the word Cyberpunk in the title of one of my games, I would have felt entirely comfortable doing so. I doubt it would really hold up. But getting sued by an individual designer or a billion-dollar video game company is not the same battle.

The trademark for traditional games also exists, Pondsmith passed it to CD Projekt if I recall.

My default is very much to worldbuild and prepare a ton of stuff. But I'm working very hard to be more ad lib. Whenever I inject an healthy dose of improvisation and keep the prep to tools, lists and tables the quality of my games improve. I never prepare plots, or stories, or arcs; I think...

Breaks are great. Mine are short. But when I feel exhausted I step away and every time there's an idea that energizes me and pulls me back in naturally. No point in forcing yourself to stick around artificially.