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Two more Weird War Tales issues and a long novel. Weird War Tales 22. Wings of Death. WW2. A French Baron has his chateaux bombed by Germans and seeks revenge. He’s an expert in bats so devizes the bat bomb. This is a real thing from history but the details are changed. Someone else invented...

Scars make for better stories than tattoos.

Sausage has been around a long, long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage#History

Good. Unless the game, story, etc is specifically about cooking and that lack of availability, I couldn’t care less about those details.

My wife loves Meow Wolf and knowing that I excitedly told her about the Kickstarter. But she has less than zero interest in this. The Godzilla RPG does look interesting. The card mechanics look solid. I hope the kaiju vs kaiju system is robust as that’s the majority of what I imagine people...

The solution is simple. Either find players who’re okay with this as a possibility or stop forcing those kinds of story beats on players who aren’t interested.

Amen. Unless a game is based on real-world history and harps on how historically accurate it is, then historical accuracy is irrelevant.

For some context on that pay rate... The RPG freelancing I did back in the early 2000s paid about 4¢/word. And did not pay for revisions. Asimov's, one of the most famous sci-fi magazines in the world, pays 8-10¢/word.

Two more Weird War Tales issues. But first. Damn do I love this comic. As much as I love Tales from the Crypt, that’s mostly from the excellent TV series on HBO in the late 80s and early 90s. The comics are good, but the really great stories are spread out across dozens of issues and 5-6...

Yes, that's one of the million reasons why you play games with simpler rules.

Yeah. The system is not designed for that style of play despite being played rather famously as superheroes with fangs, leather trench coats, and katanas. It was apparently designed as a personal horror and political intrigue game. Go figure. Savage Worlds with the Horror Companion is probably...

It’s mostly luck. Session 0s help a bit, but they’re not the cure all many seem to think. Just look at discussions on here. People argue endlessly about the definitions of words. Sometimes really important words in the context of RPGs. Like agency, railroading, character-driven campaign...

Two more Weird War Tales issues. Weird War Tales 18. This issue has two longer stories rather than three shorter ones. Captain Dracula. WW2. A US captain in Italy finds a woman and estate that feels oddly familiar. They are distant cousins. But the cousin he meets is a vampire and turns him...

It wasn’t a bad idea. It just wasn’t for everyone. It made money. For most people that’s the only measure of quality.

If it’s powerful enough to squish you, it’s powerful enough to hold you there. No idea on the “strength” of that, what it would take to break free, etc. I tend to come at these kinda things from an in-world POV rather than game mechanics.