Recent content by Retreater

Nah. The rights went with it. Which is okay. I was paid, so it's their call. I just hate that it wasn't shared with other players. And it kinda took the wind out of my designer sails again.

I know. One of my projects got lost in that shuffle. Probably a reason I still have sour grapes.

Bob World Builder seems the kind of guy who doesn't want to upset anybody or discuss any negativity about the hobby. He's sort of the anti-Retreater.

What I would say the main differences are... 1) The adventures are bloated and have way too much story that gets in the way of just classic, fun adventure design. 2) The maps are bad. Back in the day they'd have professional artists like Ed Bourelle. Now it's just churned out with whatever...

I wonder if they'll update the Thaumaturge before my campaign ends.

I purchased about all of the DCC adventures in the 3.5 era and had a pretty good time with them. It's a great void in the modern gaming landscape that folks aren't making adventures like that (or Necromancer Games) in the 5e sphere. (And yes, I know Goodman has released OAR and their own DCC...

We average about 3 hours of actual play per session. I don't include a lot of "fluffy" stuff. I don't use verbose, purple language to describe unimportant details. I handwave extended travel scenes. I don't roleplay shopping sessions. My players don't like to belabor social encounters or...

Maybe my 5e campaigns are also blitzes? I've run campaigns like Rime of the Frostmaiden and Curse of Strahd to completion. They took around 6 months of weekly play - close to 20 sessions.

Well, if you look at the number of resources provided by level, consider the adversaries. These represent all the monsters, skill challenges, and social encounters provided in the game. Level 1: 66 adversaries Levels 2-4: 39 adversaries Levels 5-7: 22 adversaries Levels 8-10: 17 adversaries...

I started running my weekly Daggerheart campaign at the beginning of November. We've missed only a few sessions and play for about 3 hours. The characters are level 6 - in a 10-level game (which would be about equivalent to level 12 in D&D). So they reached level 6 in let's say around 10...

My interpretation after having watched the prequels recently was not that "they're not as bad as I remember." Instead, I think many contemporary Hollywood blockbusters have sunk to their level.

Ben's criticism that many people purchase DCC products "just to read them" - I'm not sure if that is uncommon for other publishers. I have many books across a spectrum of different publishers for different systems that I've never played. Some I have purchased without the intent to play. I don't...

You know, it's not even so much the City State of the Invincible Overlord project that got me. Goodman was honest about his intent behind it - using profits to pay for refunds, etc. I can recognize that the product isn't for me and even consider it "yucky" that Goodman would willingly partner...

He liked the art in DCC and admitted that it was one of the games that got him interested in the OSR. He dislikes the adventure design: wall of text room descriptions, linear adventures, bad layout.

Questing Beast did a "negative" review of Goodman's products - saying he would never play or run them and criticizing the design. I wouldn't call him a fan. However, Bob World Builder went all-in and curated a bundle of DCC products to advertise. For me, Goodman's products now have a ick...