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Not that they were out and out cozy, but some of the most tense and memorable games I’ve run have been ones where the stakes were super...

I've long said: Call of Cthulhu's dirty little secret is that combat works. So many people tell me violence is a fail state in the...

<choosing to go the ignore route rather than the noise route, apologies for my momentary lapse of judgement>

Well I'll certainly concede that 7E is a game overburdened by unnecessary details, in reality it doesn't play the way it presents. I've...

The kickstarter was for the second edition.

And the price for most pedantic post goes to... I don't think the poster meant to suggest that any game that isn't crunchy is...

Ugh, missed the free copy. Not sure when the kickstarter ran, but there’s no print edition out? Also, how compatible is it with eg...

I'm no mod, this thread looks to me to be off to a bad start. So I'll try to get it off to a tangent. I've heard of Zweihander before...

Supers. I just don’t understand how to have or generate fun in that genre. I blame that mostly on that supers comics have always been a...

"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!" I'm certainly not one to quibble too much on definitions, but I'd have...

You've got to be of a certain age to say "nah, that 40 year old stuff is too new-fangled for me."

I’ve always found that it’s not the genre, it’s the group. Paranoia with the wrong group? Excruciating. With the right group, you’ll...

Dying is easy and comedy is hard...because most people don't understand why comedy works. The two best ways to get laughs in comedy RPGs...

Sometimes games are just supposed to be fun.

Drums. Drums in the deep.