Recent content by SlyFlourish

Yep. Early 50s here and lots of things are catching up. Eye glasses, sleep woes, and so on. I worry about cognitive decline both for running and playing RPGs and making useful RPG stuff for other people. The hard part is how to even know it's happening. Are we good at knowing our own cognitive...

I've done this in my games. Some bosses get one or two doom points (I call them "dreadful blessings" in my game and they're usually tied into the story like having the Blessing of the Nameless King or the Blessings of Ibbalan). Bigger bosses at higher levels get more. I wing the amount but once...

I have so many thoughts about this idea. I think it's dead on that there are actually several hobbies bound up in TTRPG prep and play. Miniature collection. Terrain construction and painting. Drawing. Mapping. And so on. All of it can be great. One of my favorite bits of prep-play is just...

Does anyone have experience working with Let's Quest – the organization that supports after-school and library RPG programs? https://www.letsquestafterschool.org I'm looking for feedback from those who may have benefitted from their service but any feedback is good.

I'm not caught up on the whole thread and someone else might have mentioned it, but I'm now a huge fan of Doom Points from Tales of the Valiant. Doom points and luck have changed all of my 5e games for the better. As a disclaimer, after doing a video and article about them, Kobold Press...

where was I eager?

"was" is an interesting word here and part of something I learned in this thread. "Success" is a moving spectrum. Games may be successful for a very short bit and then fall off.

I think that can be a valuable conclusion to arrive to and is also part of the point of discussing what makes an RPG die and what makes an RPG successful in one's mind. It re-establishes our baselines so we're not constantly calling an RPG a failure if it doesn't dethrone D&D or an RPG dead even...

I can still purchase past copies in PDF. I have a full collection of every version of D&D on my hard drive. I have a bunch of physical ones and I think a lot of them are available POD.

I think being tied to a bigger IP is actually a risk since the IP holder can pull the license and remove it from publication. I bet there are a list of games like those that disappeared.

confusion == beautiful independent thoughts and shared ideas. We don't have to come up with a consensus. What does it mean to you is just as valid (even if few share such an opinion, like the only successful RPG is D&D...).

Is there an opportunity for someone to purchase it and run it themselves? That's sort of why I have that qualification myself. It cant be a successful game,in my mind, if I can't buy a copy.

Remember, I wrote down one’s that were on the edge of successful or not. Games that clearly are successful, like Shadowdark, don’t need to be on that list.

I think the total was more copies than that. More like 60k?

That's actually part of the design of the question! I want to see the variance in people's views on this.