Recent content by jdrakeh

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this point.

Tables can be good, labor-saving, tools, but relying on them too much often makes for random, non-sensical, game play in my experience. This is obviously less of an issue in games designed to be weird/gonzo (e.g. Troika, Into the Odd, etc).

"Rules light" and "rulings, not rules" games aren't quite the same thing, to me. They do inhabit a lot of the same space in a Venn Diagram, though. Games that focus on "Rulings, not rules" are, to me, packed with good advice on how to implement the rules that do exist or how to be a better/more...

The two big ones for me are: Rulings, not rules. A game that does not attempt to provide a rule for every conceivable situation, but rather light set of rules that provides for common situations expected to arise in play and acknowledges that a referee's judgment (and consistent application...

This is true. It is, after all, what happened to the last try at a Tomb Raider film franchise. Which is a shame. That Alicia Vikander vehicle was pretty good.

I don't know if they're the best, but they're my favorites: FR6 Dreams of the Red Wizards. This setting supplement is the best of the FR series in my opinion and has actually seen a lot of use outside of FR at my tables over the years. I've also run two entire campaigns just inside the...

Oh, damn! I should mention my own game, Front Range Minimalist. It doesn't assume any particular races by default, but The Book of Words (the first supplement) includes a lot of non-human races/lineages). It does have elves and dwarves, but they are very easy to ignore (the list of...

If pursuing a working relationship with bigots hadn't already made up my mind to no longer buy GG products, this certainly has. What awful people.

Human characters are just implied in the core box (I don't have the new books), but there's absolutely nothing keeping you from creating non-human characters (the system is flexible enough to allow it without having to change anything). And the Spherewalker Sourcebook offers a look at all kinds...

I know that they made this promise to the general public, but I also hope they did not make this promise to Jennell, because if they lied straight to her face, that's unforgivable in my book. If this happened, she deserved better.

Everway, especially - arguably only - if you can procure a copy of the Spherewalker Sourcebook (it's entirely systemless detail of the many worlds of Everway).

I did use D&D Beyond for awhile as a player (I loved the character creator), but frequently had issues connecting to it with my various devices (it just kind of seemed to randomly work on my iPad and Android phone).

Haha! Beat me to it! :ROFLMAO:

It's still there. I saw it yesterday. The publisher just changed their name to Gurbintroll Games. Here's a direct link.