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The struggle is real.

Nah. Write even looser rules as an obvious trap for jerks. When they gleefully fling themselves into the trap, show them the door.

It’s not possible to jerk-proof game design. We’ve been trying for the life of the hobby. The solution is not more ironclad writing, the solution is not playing with jerks.

As a self-publisher, as many as you want. Check around to see what the standard is, if there is one. If you're charging more for less than people are used to, it'll not go great. Both. Make the smaller themed-monster books first. When you have enough to fill out a big-daddy book, do that. The...

That’s a whole other forum’s worth of discussion.

Exactly. The ease of conversion opens up a lot of games for use as Dragonbane sources. WFRP and Call of Cthulhu among them. Converting OSR material to either Shadowdark or Dragonbane are about the same amount of work, so that’s a wash.

This was a short experiment that ended years ago, but it proves the point that carrots are better than sticks. This is a post about game design.

Both Troll's Spire and Riddermound are in the boxed set as part of the Secret of the Dragon Emperor sandbox campaign.

Great article. Clocks, timers, and countdown are my favorite universal mechanic. I used that for years with no real results. Check out Dreaming Spanish. I started back in March and my Spanish comprehension is already better than my German after 2-3 years of university-level classes. Their...

I love anthologies by multiple authors because it provides short snippets of one author before moving on to someone else. I don’t mind novellas and older, shorter novels, but the modern tread of single-author, single-story doorstoppers is just not for me.

Both are great games. You won’t go wrong either way. The mechanics are different but both are shooting for roughly the same (or similar) play experience. Lower magic, zero to hero, deadly combat, exploration matters, etc. They take different approaches though. If you want the more standard...

The “I’m done stealing” “I want you to steal” exchange. Louis’ story time. Shrinking the building. The tiny fight in the kid’s room with the train. The scared kid, dad saves the day bit. The new step-dad who spends the movie busting his chops sides with Ant-Man bit. Lots of greats scenes.

More on Funnyman. I tracked down the public-domain comics and read them. All six issues. Can't say I'm impressed. The character is fascinating. Great premise that I'd love to see someone revive, but the actual execution was not great. I think it just cements the idea that Siegel and Shuster were...

The other version of that is better, I think. Violence doesn't solve anything *opens history book

It's one of the subtler versions of "guns" the GLs have made over the years. John Stewart was a marine and loves to make all kinds of fancy guns and artillery.

"If some day you're not feeling well, you should remember some little thing I have said or done and if it brings a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart then my purpose as a clown has been fulfilled." —Red Skelton

Always loved the humor of Blood Bowl.

Just tore through Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman. Got it yesterday. Took me 3.5 hours to read. It's a really short book. Quite interesting topic...too bad the book it barely connected to the title. So the young Jewish guys Jerry Siegel...