Recent content by JonM

Well, I've been pouring over my newly acquired Starter Set, and I really want to like it, but... the actual product it not making it easy. Yes, it's a beautiful set - especially, the miniatures. I love them. But there are so very many errors and oversights... Right off the bat, the Cabbage...

Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. Depends on the game (this is getting close to my 50th gaming anniversary, too, so...) In the past, I've favored using serpentfolk, of one sort or another, because they are such a classic swords and sorcery trope, and I'm a sucker for that. Plus, lots of games have...

Just backed it. It looks great! Good preview, too. And only one click. 😉

Try pasting this into every comment box, on their surveys: "Until WotC discontinues their attempt to close the Open Game License and cause irreparable harm to the RPG community, I will no longer be supporting this playtest, OneD&D, or any other WotC endeavors." And, if you really want to drive...

Signed.

WotC has given us one avenue through which to communicate with them, and I decided to take advantage of it. I just filled out the last playtest survey and entered "Very Dissatisfied" at every opportunity. More importantly, to make it very clear why, I pasted the following, in every single...

Backed! Looks wonderful!

I worked with Kim for years, during my days as a TSR freelancer, and he was never anything but a gentleman, to me. Smart and good at his job, too. He was certainly never a jerk. Others may have had a different experience, but, honestly, I would find it difficult to credit a really negative...

I'm going to say the same thing that I said on YouTube, when I saw the vid: I think Jim may be missing the point. Nobody is saying Giantlands is "evil" - most people have no opinion about it, at all, since there is so little information available (you might want to work on that). It's TSR they...

WotC needs to learn how to compress pdfs. 116 MB for 14 pages?!

We had a lot of fun with it, in the day, but my copy disappeared during a move, years ago (and was kind of falling apart, anyway - those old cardboard counters just weren't meant to last). Sadly, I missed the 2002 reprint, with all 2000 copies having been sold before I even heard about it...

BTW (and I can talk about this, since it's pre-NDA), the survey questions, themselves, seem problematic, since there are never any "whys?" or comment spaces. I'm sure some of my ratings don't come off quite right, since I couldn't explain them. Seemed kind of useless, gathering-info-wise.

Just did the whole thing, NDA and all. Yawn. Really. Just, yawn. One strange thing, though. The questions seem to vary, somewhat, for different people. Especially, post-vid. I got none, other than to confirm that I could watch and hear it. Odd. Publicity stunt, anyone?

Neat! As you said, it would probably need some reworking for a whodunit sort of scenario, but it feels like there is a kernel of something quite useful, here. I find it interesting the way the flow chart bottlenecks around the Key Subject, because it seems to me that this would help create an...

Yup, that was exactly my intention. That was how I ran Dungeon World, and it worked wonderfully. I went into the first session with, effectively, zero prep (everything environmental grew up around the heroes and required little effort on my part). At one point, when a player asked a question, I...