Recent content by Drake2000

"But think of how much they could have made if they hadn't gone Woke!" -the next series of nonsensical arguments

Just commenting to let you all know that I'm shaking an angry fist at you since this thread convinced me to add Paramount+ to my Roku. I guess I have some serious Trek to catch up on.

It took me a few tries to get into ICONS but when I did finally grok it, it really blew me away. I've done quite a bite with Fate, so I think the similarities were initially throwing me off, but reading, re-reading & then really playing with Qualities in-game was a real "Aha!" moment. It sits...

Can confirm. MHR is sometimes (perhaps often) described as a narrative game, but it's really not. The narration is in the Why you're doing something, and slightly bleeds into the How in terms of which dice you're using to build your pool. But that pool is the meat of the How. I've found it to...

The complete history of TSR as imagined by LaNasa and Ernie, a rather lengthy diatribe that, due to spacing issues, had to be rendered in 3.5 pt. font, causing the letters to all blur and meld together into a massive gold-leaf blob. When pressed on it, they will claim that this is their flagship...

So the modifier is the score +7, while the defense is the modifier +11. I think they're trying to tell us that this will be marketed nationwide through 7-Elevens.

Hey, they've won the hearts and minds of...well, the heartless and the mindless.

A lot of people really hype Atomic Robo as a great introduction to Fate. I am not one of those people. AR is a great rendition of Fate, but it also introduces some ideas & complexities that I find distract from the core simplicity of the game itself. If you're still interested in Fate the...

Jennell Jaquays was immensely influential on my D&D-related gaming back in the '80s. As a matter of fact, her Dark Tower kicked off my long-running Arduin game, and it was epic. Whenever I saw her name in JG-related materials they were pretty much a must-buy, as I knew that she would be...

That's a gross oversimplification of Howard's life at the time. Certainly he had his issues (as we all do), but he was very much in the position of being a caregiver for his mother, decades before such a term even existed. And with those duties came a substantial amount of stress. I have seen...

That's always been kind of the thing with D&D. The social and cultural elements have been very streamlined over the years, with the onus being on any given DM to flesh out interesting variations from the norm. Of course, not every DM wants (or should be expected to) put in the work to...

I have a goatee and I roll dice. I feel threatened.

No idea, but the lawyer that gamed with us back in the '90s defined the concept of a Saurig* barbarian for our group. I think he did far too much wheeling & dealing during the week, and by Thursday night he was ready to hack & slash. *Basically a tough lizardman, from the Arduin Grimoire.

And they are likely even now scouring Eastern WA for the perfect district to file in. "Hmm...Yakima, Franklin County, Spokane...so many choices!!!"

That ban should be worn like a badge of honor.