Recent content by Willie the Duck

I mean, we kinda did. Cyberpunk means different things to different people, but it tended to have some broad categories: An integrated information network bringing surveillance and control (or insurmountable influence, depending on if it was soft or hard control by the megacorporate overlords)...

Dear Joseph Goodman/Goodman Games, I sit here in my attic office, not going into the office because no one will be around right before Memorial Day. I do so while reading this truly execrable post from the younger Bledsew fellow, wrapping himself and his positions up in the flag those soldiers...

I'm never concerned about a game's popularity. However, if he is tying his preferences to 'the real D&D,' I feal that it is innately an appeal to authority ('the game, as originally envisioned by the creators,' or similar). In that case, it seems pertinent that it wasn't the game (version) that...

This certainly does paint a picture of Jeffro tracing a line between Gary and Dave's gravestones looking for an inverted pyramid that holds a copy of the true original D&D document -- of which only those who have have seen it know the true meaning of role playing games. ;) While I understand...

Depends on which Janeway she was this week. I always felt like she and Spike from Buffy were in a competition for who could collect more mutually exclusive inconsistent characterizations. They really amped up the return-to-status-quo mentality. The ship is always understaffed because of the...

twitches in former Anti-Money Laundering specialist I remember those days.

I thoroughly do not believe anyone on reddit who says they are associated with the entertainment industry, but the general notion is interesting.

It could well be genetic. Adenosine receptor perfusion or cerebral blood flow regulation or the like. I likewise can get up after truncated rest or wake up in the middle of the night and deal with <insert pet or house-related micro-emergency> with minimal impairment whereas my wife fumbles and...

I don't know if the act alone in isolation did it, or it validated premade notions of him people had from the promotion campaign for ZH initially. That was mostly 'overly zealous creator spams advertisements of their product, advertises product in places where advertising is not allowed...

I'm not familiar with the Greek Myth of Hughsephone.

Glad you included the specifier. He certainly didn't do the Dungeon&Wilderness Guides or Dragonlance/Greyhawk setting hardcovers, nor Manual of the Planes, Fiend Folio, or Deities & Demigods/Legends & Lore. It's become clear that Zeb Cook did much if not most if not all of Oriental Adventures...

I agree with the overall point, but I don't think the last bit is the necessary component. Gary's greatness in game design could have been completely wedded to the D&D model, and once he lost the ability to design in that framework*, he was SOL. Likewise, he could have left TSR and made the next...

Congrats! The way it worked for me is that I kept doing my ever-loving best to die young, and failed.

It's generally considered fine on these boards (especially when acknowledged). So long as you don't expect people from X years to respond or back up their statements from then. So, going back to the OP... My recollection is that we had the most intelligent swords in my original main-group...

I'll buy that. Certainly for now. I'm not sure it will have intergenerational staying power, as AFAICT the younger generation isn't latching onto it the way they are Friends (or Star Trek). But among those who were there for it originally, it definitely has staying power compared to Empty Nest...