Recent content by schneeland

Individually, the d12 wins. But I do appreciate the classical d6, too, and prefer it to other dice for anything with more 3 dice or more.

I think it's mostly a matter of timing. If I retraced that correctly, Shadowdark started early in 2023 (end of February) and was delivered in late 2023. And personally, I hadn't heard much about it until shortly before the crowdfunding. So it kind of "just showed up", and didn't have any time to...

My experience wasn't quite as bad, but indeed the number of people still playing started to drop off slowly after we all had our degrees from university, and then quite steeply once people either started to get married and have kids or stumbled up the corporate ladder. And for a lot of these...

Mostly taken over from the other thread: I have two games that I want to keep playing / running: Pulp Cthulhu / Two-Headed Serpent (player) Beyond the Wall / Custom Hexcrawl (GM) And then there's a "short list" of things from which I hope to run at least one game in addition: Warhammer The...

@The Soloist I assume the title should read 2026, not 2025?

Disregarding for a moment that this is a rant, I'd say: yes and no. It's not hard in the sense that DMing is a skill like any other and it can be learnt. But on the other that, it is hard because for some people it might be a new skill, which is harder to acquire as an adult than it is as a...

Thanks! That's really not why I had in mind, then (have updated above to potato pancakes).

The potato is great in many forms, but based on my current appetite, the winner is tots potato pancakes (at least if I get it right, that's the translation of German "Reibekuchen"). And I feel, the Swiss Rösti would fall into the same bucket.

My two most expected things (Warhammer: The Old World and Dolmenwood) came out this year, so they don't qualify, and Dark Conspiracy has already been mentioned, so my two nominations go to: Diablo: The Role Playing Game coming from Glass Cannon Unplugged (website, Kickstarter page) Pioneer by...

No strict resolutions for 2026, other than continuing to play in my current groups (playing Pulp Cthulhu, running Beyond the Wall), but I hope to get at least some of the some of my recent purchases to the table - in particular: The Old World RPG and Alien EE - and also progress with setting up...

I had the impression that printed books are the deciding factor. But that might be just my personal interpretation.