Recent content by Kichwas

I want the deluxe version but with the standard cover... I just feel the standard covers both in this and the original game have more of the mood of the game in them.

Not dipping into the 'is it this or that style' debate per se as I haven't been reading along very much. But Daggerheart is one of those books where the most valuable part of the book is not in the rules, and thus not carried over into the SRD. I suppose that can lead to a valid debate over...

Yeah. Most of my time in the tRPG hobby - the 80s through mid 00s - was as a GM of super hero RPGs. Player death just isn't a thing in most of those and I don't think I've GM'd a player death since the 70s. There might have been one when I was a Pathfinder GM, but I can't recall it - just a...

Bans have always been the most effective way of encouraging and growing support for something. They almost always have the inverse effect from what those making them hope to achieve. Something to consider in all of this. A much better tactic can be found in 'Dr Fatima's video: These things...

I know people who swear by startplaying and people who think it's heresy. ;) But yeah there is no good data. We have our gut feelings for the most part. We're all kind of in echo chambers though. I think the D&D folks think it is way more dominant than it actually is. And I think the non-D&D...

This is a very difficult thing to ever measure. You can't look at cons because really only super-fans and industry insiders go to those. You can't look at 'D&D Beyond' because that's only D&D. You can't look at Roll20 because there are very large games who's playerbase almost universally reject...

Just about everything I sign these days is one of those tablet or phone app signing things where you have to use a finger on a little box that, if on a phone, is too small. So I end up scribbling some nonsense roughly similar to my initials plus one character using the writing system of one of...

Exactly. It looked good at the time, but aged poorly.

So I don't know PBtA much - this comes from what people tell me about it and then comparing that to OtherScape and Legend in the Mist. Your character in the 'Mist' games (OtherScape, Legend in the Mist, and partially City of Mist) has no numeric ratings on the sheet (this is partly false - the...

I'm dubious that will ever manage to make Mars habitable. But in trying, we might figure out fixing Earth.

Shadowrun was cool in the 80s and 90s but suffered some severe problems with it's portrayal of Indigenous populations. I remember thinking back during 1E that for the populations they listed, every girl on the rez I knew would have ben having 10-20 babies starting more or less right then as I...

Part of why it's a worthwhile endeavor. Solving that gives us solutions to planetside issues. But it will eventually also hit a crossing point where it becomes an easier issue to solve as you have a contained system. This is one among several reasons why most futurists advocate for space...

Yes on two very different grounds: 1. It leads to a lot of technological advances 'ground side'. 2. Sooner or later we gotta get out of this place. We're hitting a growing list of places planetside that are no longer safely habitable. Climate change is accelerating. Energy demand is going up...

Yep. One of my last PF2E groups before I left them was a set of folks who were almost all local to each other. The pandemic pushed them into VTT space, and when it was over they decided to stay that way to avoid Los Angeles traffic... I was recruited in when they lost one person, but left some...

"Old" is kind of why I play on a VTT. Folks end up having work, distance, kids, and so on that necessitate online. Also had way too many weird or awkward in person gaming moments and just don't want to deal with that anymore. But I also don't need a million digital tools. Just a solid VTT...