Recent content by Swanosaurus

I guess it all comes down to that some think that everything unfolds following the inevitable and quasi-natural laws of business, so there's nothing to talk about. While others think that it's a topic worth talking about, worth taking action about, and that it's generally worth helping people.

I don't have a problem with publishers printing books - and I'd prefer GR getting these books back to sell them themselves, instead of Diamond selling them off for a song, forcing GR to reprint and o/orquickly push out more product (if they can) to stay in business. I just prefer the idea that...

I kind of get the sentiment, though I don't share it. I gave (a little ...) to GR, because I like who they are and what they represent, but I'm not very interested in any of their products. I mean, we actually ask publishers to manipulate us into buying their stuff: "If you want me to chip in...

How is asking their fans for help "dumping" it on them? As far as I am concerned, even if you f-ed up, it's perfectly fine to say: "Look, this went really badly for me, can you help me out?" After all, I'm free to say "No, I'm really sorry that has happened to you, but it's not my problem." As I...

Well, I think when someone claims that the only relevant perspective on a problem is a lawful neutral one, they should expect some pushback.

this is ... absurd. The word malicious has meaning beyond its legal definition. There's a difference between legal and legitimate. If there wasn't, criticism of existing law would be impossible, because there would be no ethical grounding for it. You have it absolutely, dangerously backward...

@Thread title: Nothing specific, really, as far as I am concerned. There's an enormous diversity of RPG products, and I can usually find what I want. Play is limited by my available free time, however, I have little interest in material that abbreviates play (including preparation), because...

Millenium had this really weird change in tone - it got way more supernatural in season 2, only to become more mundane again in season 3. I think overall, I'd agree that season 1 st andvery effective as it is, and it feels slightly cheapened by season 2. Still, I do like both season 2 and season 3.

There's a lot too unpack here. At the surface, the implicit analogy of the original has merit. Both are about the mechanized mass production of text and how it is going to put people out of jobs and radically change how we perceive creativity and the written word. So on the surface, it seems...

Great interview, thanks! I'm really looking forward to the new edition. The concept sounds interesting (the first game sounds a lot like Pelgrane Press' Esoterrorists RPG, which has a really cool horror mythology behind it ... if you haven't done so, you should have a look at it, both for...

TBH honwest, I think I only ever finished one FF book without cheating (and most others not even with cheating), and that was Scorpion Swamp, which was significantly easier then the rest, mostly because you could move around pretty freely. I also somehow played the the Sorcery! series, but I...

Weird, I remember Caverns being one of the FF books I didn't like at all, but I don't remember why ... never touched it again. Would you mind spoiling the big twist? I suspect I never got there back then, or I don't remember it.

Lords of the Middle Sea announcement by Chaosium and also: Blue Planet Recontact from Biohazard Games

Of all those you mentioned, I've only read Mothership (and haven't played it yet) - I love it's aesthetics and I generally like %-systems, so it should be just right for me (and I played the MS-based RPG Cloud Empress, and the rules worked pretty well for me). Based on that, I can recommend...

1. Blue Planet Recontact - the pdfs have been out to backers for a while, but I think it's still not available to the public, so I'm guessing 2025. 2. Lords of the Middle Sea - Hoping for it this year ...