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D20 system with class/level mechanics and armor class that affects the chance to hit, rather than reducing damage.

To start, a D20 class/level based fantasy game descended from Dungeons and Dragons. I play a lot of games that occasionally get tagged as OSR like Call of Cthulhu or Dragonbane, and they match a lot of the traits of OSR games, but I think it's really just the D&D descended ones that count. But...

I'm one of the "other" and that one has come up repeatedly: signing up for a game and showing up wanting to play on a tablet or phone.

That they were not planning any more projects with the Bledshaws after the Jaquays properties.

I would assume all backers are eligible for a refund and PF1 is just a shorthand. OTOH, in their latest proclamation from the Overlordbunker, the Bledshaws claimed they were going to be doing their own release of CSIO, now that Goodman has paid their debts off. So possibly it's only the PF...

So this contract has a disparagement clause that would prevent saying it was signed before 2020 or that they're obligated to fulfill the terms because that would damage sales, but at the same time it allows Goodman to repeatedly take to video to talk about how reprehensible the Bledshaws are...

I had a really memorable character in Weird Frontiers, the weird west DCC offshoot. I rolled 4 for STR, but otherwise ok stats. Why would they have such a low strength? It came to me: Because they're old! So I created Old Sally. (Pronounced "ole" held out long and with a western twang.) She was...

If you really want a history of TTRPGs, that would be the ultimate IMHO. When I was making my meager and now embarrassing contributions in the 80s, there were no contracts for authors, not even a terms of service. You just sent stuff and technically, you were paying her to print your "zine."...

I wish they'd died before they got old.

The Bledshaw JG kickstarter is so old that it predates 5E. It was being done in a similar fashion to how Goodman does things, one house version "JG Universal" and one of the dominant D20 RPG which at the time was still Pathfinder 1.

Facebook is worse. A lot worse.

The nastiest stuff, not surprisingly, is on Facebook. I was told I was a fat cat lady. I was told I needed to post a shelfie because it was obvious I didn't play RPGs. While the fat cat lady may be accurate, I was tempted to posein front of my Goodman shelves while holding my white box. But...

From Goodman's social media, I am absolutely certain they have attracted a new and quite unpleasant audience. It's really brought out the creepy-crawlers. I would really not feel comfortable anymore sitting down at a DCC table at a convention.

I wrote a big blog post comparing roll20 and Foundry. My preference is definitely Foundry and my conclusion was Foundry is better for something you're serious about making work with full bells and whistles, but roll20 is easier to "wing it." Owlbear would be even easier to wing it, but kind of...

https://www.superlawyers.com/resources/consumer-law/washington/can-i-sue-when-kickstarter-fails-to-deliver/ https://www.michiganitlaw.com/Fraudulent-Kickstarter-Campaign-Legal-Action