Recent content by TheAlkaizer

Just finished Mr.Inbetween last week. Gotta pause series watching for a bit. Been stuck to my TV a lot lately. Next year I'm gonna dig into The Sopranos.

I ordered Carcass Crawler #5 and #6 in print during Exalted Funeral's black friday sale.

The second edition of UVG has been out for a while now. It's been on my shelf for more than a year.

2025 had surprises planned for me, so my goals of this year have all been shifted. I can pretty much list what I aimed to do in 2025. I want to buy a bit less games. I want to play at least two or three different unplayed games from my shelves. I want to run a short solo campaign. I want to...

Bastionland Podcast is Chris McDowall's (Into the Odd, Mythic Bastionlands) podcast. It's not constant, and the format changes often. But he talks with designers, he talks about his games. They often explore things outside of TTRPG. I enjoy it. Between Two Cairns is an OSR module review podcast...

The quality level of the YouTube scene for RPGs is really, really low. There's a ton of interesting small channels that are not very popular. But the big ones are quite bad.

To be hair, I also really like the setting of the Third Imperium. But yeah, without the associated mechanics I would not stick around.

It's not really a thing in the french-speaking part of Canada. We do have a holiday for it, but I've never met french-Canadian actually having a Thanksgiving day like the Americans do (family, food, etc). I think it's does happen in the anglophone part though.

Uh... yeah, no. That's an interesting question. I'd guess that if they do make it for 5E they need to respect it's license. It could be interesting if it opens up Traveller more widely to third parties.

I've read so many books recently... I don't remember which one but one of the system was very explicit in its rules. You either moved cautiously, or you didn't. Cautiously took more time, etc. But more importantly, you'd automatically get tells for traps when you did, and you'd have to roll if...

Oh no, I fully agree. My removal is both due to that, and the realization that it added very little to my life. I'm in the process of doing the same realization with my cellphone. What I meant is that sometimes I found myself scrolling on YouTube shorts. It's not the best use of my time, but it...

My Facebook account is still open for two reasons: My family all use Messenger for communicating. Fortunately, Messenger still works if your Facebook account is disabled. I use Facebook for the marketplace, to sell stuff. That's it. If it wasn't for this, it'd be disabled. I wouldn't really...

Geralt is closest to a Fighter. But the Signs are something that's hard to replicate. So it's probably be a custom class. But if I had to build on a chassis it'd be a Fighter.

The hook is definitely one part. But it's also constraints. It says to everyone "you can make whatever character you want, but it has to make sense that they are where they are and want to do what they're about to do". It's a box where everyone starts in. Some games don't have this issue has...

Of course when I use the Thieves Guild example, I mean it as a it's a campaign about that. Not "you're part of a thieves guild but we're going into another unrelated adventure". I think what I mean is that I like to force a certain tone and purpose in a campaign. The players can break out of...