Recent content by SteveC

Oh I definitely get where you're coming from. That's honestly why I have an iPad. I'm going to be playing a bunch of Pathfinder at the upcoming Gamehole Con, and I'll bring printouts of my character, but also have everything, including the rules, on that. I get to play in person only once in a...

I'm finding this to be increasingly true. I don't buy a lot of physical books anymore because I have limited space for them. So I'll buy a PDF most of the time. If I'm getting something physical to put in the bookshelf, it should be special. Or something I really treasure. So a book like Wildsea...

I definitely agree. I think you could make an argument for what makes something a golden age, but you'd likely just get disagreement about it. You sort of only know what a golden age is when it's gone. At least that's what my literary references and bad country songs say. I'm sort of waiting...

If this is going to be anything other than people's opinions, you have to come up with a metric for what the "golden age" means. Is it Kickstarters over 1 million? Is it people playing online through game portal or VTTs? Is it Influencer engagements? Or con registrations? I don't know, and I...

I really like this whole thing. But this part reminds me of Darkest Dungeon, one of my favorite and most quotable RPG computer games of all time, so ... bravo!

As this year continues, I feel more and more that it's one of the best years ever for TTRPGs.

This is so important. I'm 100% in the play how you and your group want to. And but as soon as you start saying "this other way? The way the game you're playing is designed for? That's wrong," I will say you're objectively wrong. I don't say that very often, and in fact I've had a couple of...

Ultimately that's what you have to do in any situation like this. If you're playing a game and one player has an issue with the game, you should work to accommodate everyone's tastes, but in the end, sometimes you have to let a person go. One example I can think of that made its way into game...

When Daggerheart first came out, I thought (and posted about) how it was going to be controversial and some people were going to very much not like it. And this was the reason. Different people have vastly different ideas as to what belongs in RPGs and we're seeing that here. I love the...

I have seen this go different ways depending on the type of player. You have some players who love this sort of thing and get excited by it. And then you have those who hate it the intensity of 10000 suns. And then you have the quiet player who just isn't very skilled or interested in it. As...

As usual, there's a pretty long discussion on Knights of Last Call.

I'll second that, I think you'd like it. Now the Year Zero system for superheroes, and specifically Invincible, will be a sell for me. I don't think it's a good fit. I do trust the designers, though, so I'll check into it.

This looks really interesting and has a distinctive design that I think a lot of people will like. It doesn't look anything like 4E. I say that as someone who played 4E and likes it. This looks like a way to help get new players into D&D with bits and bobbles.

I'd say that is very much your personal opinion. Neither of these games talks about themselves in this way and my experience running and playing Pathfinder, it has the same level of roleplay as a game like D&D has ever had. Which is to say it's what you make of it. One of the Actual Play...

That's the reason they do it: clickbait gets their videos in front of more people. It's one of those things where if you talk to people who make a living doing this, they need to get in front of viewers. Many content creators I like (and I'm not interested in clickbait articles that truly are...