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Mouse Guard is excellent - and my second impression when I confront Anthro-games. Albedo is first. Note that both Albedo games...

My prep:‌play ratio varies by system and mode of play. For my current sunday online group, using Daggerheart, looks like about 1:2 to...

the several months with no new products during the transition, plus killing the forums several months prior to that when Asmodee first...

Re C&S I have 1st, 4th, and either 2nd or 3rd ( don't know) — all 3 have small fonts and tables aplenty. I don't know about 5th... Re...

All I can say for certain is that the only thing you are missing out on by not playing Diplomacy is pain

A strange game. The only move to keep all your friends is not to play.

I consider actual Lovecraft and CoC the RPG to be separate things here. Lovecraft was pulp - and you could knock out Lovecraft's Cthulhu...

Alien and Dragonbane also do likewise. It's a great design idea.

No, but from a fan perspective, something far worse: both Star Wars and L5R are not getting good support. Couple that to the US...

Retreater, a serious question: do your players already play any other OSR or genuine Old School games? If so, are they D&D mechanics...

Tempting me to dig out my axe and get an FX box... an inheritance from a friend's dad. (Friend in question is not musically inclined.)

Nope. For me, role-playing is not about amateur dramatics. Unwelcome take I expect. It was funny when we were teens and 20's but the...

As a GM, yes, mostly to distinguish various NPCs in a scene with multiple. As a player, accents and pacing changes in character, so...

Banished? Not Dead? Returns when???

Vecna is banished. Multiverse saved