Recent content by numtini

Shadowdark is lethal, particularly at low levels, but I don't think it's particularly dark in theme. Though after one hour of real time, it's very dark.:p

I love cozy fantasy, but I can't imagine gaming it. Glad this exists for people who apparently can imagine it!

Inspired by McMaster-Bujold's World of the Five Gods, I'm working on a cosmology that has a finite number of deities and an ordered universe far more like the vision of the religions of the book than the chaotic Pagan world view of random Gods and Goddesses everywhere. A universe where things...

While people are splitting hairs, everyone should be reminded that the Bledshaws are not some Archie Bunker types who engage in random ignorant bigotry. They are spewing hardcore nazi ideology. Complaining the "Jewmedia" is not fair to Mr. Trump. Claiming that Truman and Gen. Eisenhower were...

This was on Facebook. There was some weasel-worded 'splaining and a couple of us directly and repeatedly asked if Bledshaw's statements were true and whether they had been paying royalties or it was all going to charity and we got crickets. That led to the rumor/claim/explanation that "Goodman...

Goodman employees were also directly asked if Bledshaw's statement was true and refused to answer.

It's my understanding that the US is now insisting that small package tariffs be collected when they are received for shipping, so other postal services need to implement the procedures do this, and don't really have the information they need to do so. As a result, many countries' postal...

Having it work should probably be added to my requirements.

I love dice. I have hundreds, probably over a thousand. But I click on a weapon on my character sheet, it rolls the attack then automatically rolls damage including any damage from a critical hit. For advantage/disadvantage, it simply chooses the better/worse roll. That's faster than I can do...

Yes and no. It all depends on what is less. The key to a more narrative game or theater of the mind, IMHO, is that the VTT needs to fade away. If it has clunky features or some things aren't supported so you're jumping back and forth randomly between the VTT and kludging with notes and dice, or...

There's a big difference between what is the bare minimum I could play with and what is the minimum that would tempt me to leave my current VTT (Foundry). For bare minimum, I guess what Owlbear Rodeo offers: dice roller, map with tokens, handouts. To be fair, it offers character sheets for many...

Having played for 5+ years with roll-to-cast in DCC, as well as more recently in Shadowdark, it works just fine. The old D&D alternative is a 1st level magic user gets one spell and casts it once, then chucks daggers. Having played both, I vastly prefer roll-to-cast. In terms of casting chance...

I assure you that my back and knees explain that to me on a regular basis! I have the first edition CoC, the display has a thinner box which is the 2nd. (Otherwise identical afaik), Pendragon, Thieves World, Ringworld, and Stormbringer. I swear I have White Bear and Red Moon because I recognize...

I'm sort of amazed how much of that display can also be seen in my basement.

We regularly play 2 characters in one of the DCC games I'm in and I'm not a big fan of it long term. It tends to reduce identification with the character and turns it more into a war game sort of feeling. I find that I tend to identify with one character and it feels more or less like I'm...