Recent content by Oncewasbenji

So much support for this comment. They identified that dms buy most of the product and support things and then sort of planned to replace them in the hope they make everybody a player? Dunno how planning to replace the most invested part of a fan base or turn them into the people you found out...

Thanks, this is the most clear difference explanation so far. I can see how tastes would be divided due to that difference in focus.

So does the CG ruleset add mechanics that add to the horror, or to the realism? What mechanics would you point to in the original system that lends and elevates the themes? I guess I'm curious becuase I get that it has a zweiander ruleset but people must have know it would when advertised. So is...

Can someone explain to me without dancing around the point why people feel like FoF is different (and by implication of the posters, inferior) to CG? Was it just mechanics or something more?

As someone who left the theatre to move into writing and Rpg stuff, I absolutely feel their pain. The lockdowns changed so many people's lives, it's where I started to go professional with DMing and found I was able to earn more than my day job. So many people's plans were also halted or...

Met Andrew at indiecon over a decade ago and had a wonderful chat about a game he was planning set in an theatre. Years later seeing Opera House being published made me smile.

I always did wonder how they were funding all that licencing and still making bank, as someone who at one point was thinking of working for them, it looks like I dodged a bullet. Thank you for a well researched and thorough article. This is what games journalism looks like.

As a Geek Native columnist, it's nice to see us getting the mention here.

I think that 'zombies are a obstacle survivors are the issue' is what they're aiming for. So in that, they kidna did succeed in capturing the show faithfully, even if you didn't like it.

You don't need a mechanic, but if you spend all your time roleplaying without a mechanic, then the game isn't doing that for you, you are. Then it could be any game. I'm not saying it's special. But I'm saying hacking dnd (for example) would not provide a similar play experience. An actual...

I think specifically in the rules implementation of the anchor mechanic does tie the focus of the game more concretely into it being about communities. When a mechanic is created, players often engage with a thing in a different way - that's why something like pbta mechanises only the focused...

That doesn't deliver this experience though. The focus here is on mechanised interpersonal drama and like three hit death with undead as a natural force. Like I own a number of gritty games (Zweihander, Wfrp, wild talents, mork borg, vast grim, to some extent cthulhu) but that isn't really what...

I mean, I can run fantasy adventures with lots of systems. It doesn't mean they offer the same experience. What system do you think would offer a similar feeling experience?

Counter argument: the golden age of the rpg art form shouldn't be connected to the financial success of any company. If its reduced to just a handful of people making zines for each other like is was in the 70s, then it's not going to affect my current stash of games. I can still persuade people...

The survey asks if you were paid royalties only and then still asks for a rate at the end. I answered zero for the contract that happened in but just making you aware that could affect numbers.