Recent content by Thagdal

One player missing, we play anyway unless its a vital moment. Otherwise, like so many here, its a board game or something game related otherwise but the important part is that people who do turn up, get to play something. This helps them come back.

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So they expect the money (10%) to run out before being able to refund all the backers owed?

I thought that was in relation to exceeding the expected refund amount, not what happens with unclaimed refunds, which I'm guessing is harder to predict, and probably trivial amounts.

I'm ignorant with this type of stuff, but I cant see how the escrow thing wont lead to JG getting some money, Which is acknowledged by the donation to charitable causes by Goodman games if/when so. If they gather the kickstarter data, and determine 15,000 needs to be paid out, and structure...

Some really nice information in this thread. OP, it sounds like you are playing a mix of rules from editions and house rulings (as is tradition for early era D&D). Given that mixture already of rules, its going to be a very game/player dependent decision on what limits to pick from what...

Also put me down as another anecdotal record of successful gaming with players and their SOs. I think @Ruin Explorer nailed it by saying its a problem when forcing someone (anyone) not interested to play.

When very young (around 9 iirc), and playing tunnels and trolls. The character creation with races applies modifiers to strength and could be a multiplier, e.g. ogres might get x 3 rolled strength. The fairy race was intended to be a third of the rolled strength, but the way we interpreted it...

V&V games saw me through many a high school game session - we werent allowed to play proper D&D (thanks satanic panic) but were allowed to play RPGs with superheroes. Didn't realise it was still going to be honest. A rabbit hole to look at tonight :)

You would only get the message in the inbox for breaking reddit rules in example 1, the others dont mention a message of notice. 'Shadow banning' is fairly common on reddit, and by design allows the user/spam bot think they are still posting as normal and can see their own posts, direct links...

Its going to be tough for an uncertain time which is always more stressful than knowing an end date. Sending lots of wishful moral support to you all. May we soon live in boring times please.

As someone who is currently doing THAC0 and associated early edition mechanics with people who have never played it before, you absolute nailed all the issues with some subsystems having a plus or minus modifier could be good or bad. It takes a while to get used to, and the pay off isn't worth...

Not just packed pixies, you would need to pack a lot of ammo.

This was my experience too. Most games freely used bits of UA and the others like they used dragon magazine content. Used what they wanted into their game with DM oversight, laughed at other bits for being crap, over powered. or just pointless.