Recent content by lyle.spade

Good points, and yet the company isn't helping the issue by pushing more things online. Consumers will go where stuff is cheap, but given WOTC's dominance of the market, they could choose to better support FLGSs; instead, their move to perhaps all or mostly digital is a huge middle finger to them.

I wonder what share of FLGS RPG sales are books as compared to minis and other accessories. WOTC, by going more and more digital, is actually at least partially responsible for killing the physical stores that have served the community since the beginning. But all WOTC cares about is money, and...

Thanks - details are helpful! :)

I wish the game author would have provided some actual details about the system. I started reading, interested in learning something about the world and system, and came away with virtuality nothing but the game designer's conclusions, rather than any description.

I like that a lot. Who knows what he brought back from all those years in France...

Thank you. The setting is rich, in large part because the real-world backdrop is rich, and far more detailed and varied and interesting than most people realize. You know, I think the Federalist Papers might have had a spell or something like that woven into their words...yeah. Probably did...an...

I picked up digital version of a heap of these books years ago and found a lot to like in them, although the system at the time seemed a little counterintuitive and confusing. An updated version interests me...the period, and the author's knowledge of it and use of historical fact to anchor the...

I read "Slaying the Dragon" after having read the far more detailed, far better sourced and supported, "Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons and Dragons." Riggs writes with a breezy sense of received knowledge, occasionally trading in conclusions that are poorly-supported and reasoned. His...

I look forward to them!

Well put; thoughtful; thank you. I am the Forever GM, too, and by choice. I enjoy it more than playing, even with all the additional work it entails. I think your recommendation to start small - promise a few sessions, or what I would call a "short arc" and then see where it goes from there...

The rules are quite simple but like many of the line's books, they are not sequenced well. There are a great many details spread around the chapters. That said, it works well in play if you keep in mind that it's highly narrative and low on prescriptions. If you're lost while playing, ask...

I see a FASA map and counters. Good stuff.

I like it, although if anyone reading this can communicate to them that increasing the font size in the wide buttons (publishers, genres, etc) would be nice for the older eyes.

The site loads more quickly on my phone, but on a tablet and my desktop it's dreadful. The black letters in dark mode do not show up on the phone, either, but they do on the other two devices.

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