Recent content by TheAlkaizer

It depends on what you mean to "exist alongside it". If you mean still being available to buy or have the associated supporting resources still being available, there's a ton. D&D is an example of it. If you mean still being supported, promoted, having products released, etc. There's some...

That's a really cool start point. I love how they're having fun and trying new things. It definitely is not just some friends playing D&D, it has become a show and what doesn't work at a regular table might work for a business making entertainment. I bounced off hard from Campaign 3 but I'll...

Modern is a definition that has to evolve. What we think of modern now is different than what we thought as modern. I know that, personally, there's a few elements that seem vestigial when I spot them. For example, if I see a matrix table in a game, I take for granted it was written on a...

I love a lot of what he's trying to achieve, I generally dislike how he achieves it. Yeah, that's a foundational design decision. If you want odds stacked against the players, you have to give them some mechanical ways to bring the odds back. If you stack the odds in their favor, you have less...

The workers do not need to speak French. A sizeable portion of my colleagues moved here from the US or the rest or Canada and do not speak a word of french. At least a third of my interactions with industry peers is entirely in English. They might need to learn French if they want to immigrate...

From this bit if feels you're opening the door to other systems. My most recent experience is with Burning Wheel. Quick context of Burning Wheel So Burning Wheel is a dice pool system. You want to do something, the referee says it's covered by Skill A. If you have five in that skill, you roll...

I agree. I have nothing against Gygax and am thankful for what he created. But asking people to give money to create an idol for a millionaire is kinda weird to me. Such projects are generally funded by the family, or the city/government.

Taking all of it into account is maybe not always realist. But I generally spend some time before my campaigns to target a few financial hinge points that I want to make some sense. If it's a naval campaign, I might look into the financial details of ships, berthing, etc.

Because people do it all the time? People do risky jobs in real life for twice or thrice an ordinary salary all the time. And sure, adventuring can be go slay a dragon and most likely die. But at lower levels, it's a different proposition. I mean, I wouldn't go slay a dragon for 50 GP. But 50GP...

That's a good point. I often forget to do that. That's what I've been doing. I think that's what people call the silver standard. You base your XP on the silver instead, and just move the currency from GP to SP. So if a dungeon says you find 2000 GP (because it intends to give 2000 XP to the...

There's ton of Canadian (as in anglophone) and American companies with subsidiaries or infrastructures in Montreal. As with any other non-speaking region of the world. They manage. And in video games the working environment is generally not French, it's bilingual. So yeah, your HR will have to...

The trick is to meal prep. You cook him once and freeze your food for the week.

Montreal is one of the world's leading cities for video games. The pool is highly experienced, cheaper because of the CAD conversion and there's a ton of people looking for work right now. They're not gonna compete with each other, they might even be able to share resources on downtime or...

Considering that there's been thousands of layoffs in both Canada and the US and that the market for jobs in video games is incredibly brutal, a ton of people will be very eager to get an income.

The post I quoted seemed to indicate that this was a repeat, like if they had opened a new studio and closed it. I don't remember it!