Recent content by JediSoth

My group will try anything, at least for a one-shot. One player is reluctant to play CoC; he's had really bad experiences with it in the past, and my spouse doesn't like RPGs that have a lot of extra bits for players to keep track of apart from the character sheet (and she tends to do best with...

My biggest pet peeve wasn't listed: a peanut gallery of people in the room as someone playing online and commenting on the action where everyone else on the call could hear them. I get that couples often have computers in the same room, but if one of them is playing an online game with others on...

I have done so, if the things I've read about the new edition make it seem like it's going to be a better experience than the previous edition. Most of the time, though, I don't. Furthermore, it is at that time I usually sell the previous edition to Noble Knight, because if I've had it sitting...

Bledsaw posted a whiny screed complaining about "liberals" in gaming on the Judge's Guild Facebook page today. It's long enough that it might qualify as a manifesto. I got about three paragraphs in before I was so disgusted I blocked the page, so I can't further summarize (I don't want to link...

I'm no longer in contact with any of them, so as it turns out, they really weren't. My actual play group has become like family though, and I daresay, I'm even closer to them than my current home group. So, it's all good.

I used to play with a group where, while we had 3 GMs (including me), they absolutely refused to play anything else except D&D (3.X at that time) during my game days and no one else wanted to GM games for us during my game days. The group didn't last long after the point where I suggested we...

My wife and I are planning to attend. I'll have an Author's Table in the Dealer Hall again; hopefully life won't interfere to keep us away like it did last year.

Hopefully he'll find the peace in death that so eluded him much of his life. Though, his marriage to Donna really seemed to bring him joy and contentment, so at least he had that over the last couple of years. I only really met him properly once. It was in the late '90s, I had driven up to WI...

It may be unasked for, but after years of attending Gen Con as both a participant and as a vendor, what I've written in my blog should be (IMO) required reading for all attendees. Take Care, Be Aware at Gen Con

We currently have: Perpetual Prime Netflix Disney+ Discovery+ Subscribed As-Needed Paramount+ DropoutTV (a year is cheap... so this may become perpetual) Not Currently Subscribed Hulu Acorn Britbox We'll drop Paramount+ once the next season of Strange New Worlds finishes. I'm still trying to...

I voted 3. Their actions have convinced me that I no longer wish to purchase WotC products (and especially don't want to subscribe to any of their services) in order to play D&D, but I'm not purging my existing 5e collection. If my group ultimately decides they prefer D&D to PF2, then I'll use...

Dude, I've known you for all of a couple of forum posts and I've enjoyed none of it. I'm not about to do homework for you. I've already apologized for offending your sense of right and wrong since my opinions are clearly wrong. I do not wish to continue this conversation with you, if that wasn't...

I apologize that my reply was not All Encompassing. I mentioned the first thing that popped into my head. I forgot that unless one is very specific and includes all other possibilities, people will assume one is ignorant of anything one doesn't mention.

I've been playing D&D for over 40 years. I'm aware that Raise Dead is A Thing, thank you. And IME, revolving door death cheapens the experience and has no bearing on how invested players are in the world. It just become a cheap thing with no consequences. YMMV.

Depending on my group, I'm either sticking with Pathfinder 2e or Tales of the Valiant (my preference). PF2e is a good game, but it's just different enough and just a tad more complicated than I like (though I LOVE all the player options, but as a GM, I don't get to use those much). I mean, I...