Recent content by jdrakeh

Are you sure you're not RPG Pundit, because you're posting like RPG Pundit.

Your definition of "adversarial" is extremely narrow. From the Oxford Dictionary: Adversarial: Involving or characterized by conflict or opposition.

I've seen plenty of (countless?) instances of that in WoD games, as a direct result of the power paradigm that I called out. Including the one I explicitly mentioned earlier in this thread of the Storyteller abusing his authority to take agency away from players. That game was absolutely a fight...

There were also a lot of people not giving that advice for decades. Again, look at the early WoD offerings in the 1990s. Early WoD Storyteller advice leaned hard into the idea that the story belonged to the Storyteller, first and foremost, and that the other players were just lucky that the...

It would've literally changed how I played/run games decades ago, instead of like 15 years ago. Right? The game I'm currently writing has a discussion of safety tools, failing forward, when to roll dice (and when to not), and a really in depth discussion of player agency (and why taking it...

There are still some bad Storytellers out there who were brought up on bad Storyteller advice from the early era of WoD games. I talk about one of them in a thing I'm currently writing. Like, holy crap. This guy was big on removing all player agency and then bragging about how clever he was for...

They absolutely lost me as a (longtime) customer over that.

Standard Array on D&D Beyond. I haven't played D&D in about two years and I just wanted the least fuss method.

Jess and The Ancient Ones

I'd like to add sculptured dice towers to this list. There are many different molds/prints available and most of them are quite affordable. I received a 3d-printed dice tower as a Yule gift over the weekend. It presents as a ruined tower. Very cool. I plan to paint it after the holidays (Santa...

There have been two remakes. Both awful.

Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). Arguably the foundation of the North American slasher genre, Black Christmas is a work of cinematic importance in that regard. Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon (among others). It's the only Christmas move to absolutely horrify...

The new edition actually has less content in it than The Big Gold Book.

A few months ago, I purchased some serial numbers filed off minis of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser. I intend to use them as leaders of a Frostgrave warband (the barbarian as apprentice, and the rogue as wizard respectively).

That hasn't been my experience. I just (as recently as last month) had to boil and re-straighten bendy appendages and weapons on many grey Bones minis.