Recent content by Wofano Wotanto

It's really not just kids. Modern game design trends laud the light and deride crunch (much less any kind of simulation) and it does so because so many customers these days of any age won't touch a book over 200 pages, and many draw the line much lower than that. Even I feel a little tired...

Or another were in full-tiger form. That certainly aged poorly, especially with some fairly dire cultural stereotyping in the mix. ...Different Worlds, Adventure Gaming, Space/Fantasy Gamer, White Wolf, Adventurers Club, early White Dwarf... So many things to choose from back in the day, and...

I believe that's correct, but it's been a very long time and memory is hazy.

Busy week. What do you think, worth mentioning over on that "systemless books" thread that's been running for a while now? This one vaguely reminds me of a short story from the Liavek shared world anthology, although it's probably just a coincidence based on both featuring evil-minded camels.

Back when I had regular FtF groups (ie pre-2020-ish) the one thing that was a real no-sell was Pelgrane's excellent version of Dying Earth. That one really "got" Vance's setting, but getting people to play has been tricky for decades now. I briefly considered the Goodman Games' version despite...

Yep, a real product of the times that created the 800-ton Broadsword mercenary "cruiser" and "huge" 1800-ton Leviathan-class merchant cruiser. Keeping to a smaller scale was arguably a good idea, since a party could reasonably interact with enough of the major (and not-so-major) NPCs of a...

What Bolongo said is correct but ignores some realities of the module's production. As the first-ever stand-alone Traveller adventure the format is odd - both over-detailed and under-detailed at once. The four pages of "suggestions" don't include the minimalist stats for the NPC crew which...

Not that I think TLG would ever do something illegal but I've seen some doozies when it comes to finding money in this industry. I remember working an office job when I was right out if college. There were about half a dozen gamers in staff of varying ages, and this one guy a little older than...

It's for sure not just books. Says so right in the first sentence.

That parallels my (US) experience. Read the first six young, never re-read them and have no sense of nostalgia, which is really bad sign considering I even gave the Belgariad series a second pass to see if it was what I remembered it being 40 years later. Spoilers, it is, and knowing the...

I don't know about <40, but maybe <30 when a maturing internet led to much more awareness of THAT SCENE and other problematic material. The books' popularity stemmed partly from years of new releases from 1977-1983 - and dropped off rapidly as that ended, seemingly forever. Early Covenant's...

There might be an extension piece or two in back that supports the whole thing through the wonders of body glue, or just forms a front-and-back clamp with the one piece extending down the front of the torso. that we can see. Doesn't seem like it would be very comfortable either way. The shape...

Supers RED Skyscraper collapse mitigated by teamwork

That window also provides a major workplace safety risk, as do the other ones you can see out of it. Just look at the height of the windowsills and consider how easy they make it to fall out if you stumble, slip, trip or get a light push. Hope you've got Feather Fall memorized, pal. That...

If you ask nice, maybe you can a autograph from one of the company founders. No one else left to pack orders at GTG these days.