Recent content by Wolfpack48

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The only similarity is that Dragonbane uses d20s.

Just backed the magic book.

Blue box Basic D&D, followed not long after by the Monster Manual.

Monster stat blocks and combat? Oh, yes, absolutely.

D&D Lite?

The uncertainty is causing as much market disruption as the tariffs themselves.

I also prefer "in-person" over "face-to-face or "meatspace." :ROFLMAO:

All this argument over a bunch of mechanics and rules "to protect poor weak, innocent players against imaginary, despotic GMs, who just want to write their novels." As if strict rules and mechanics can somehow protect you from bad players, bad GMs or other people you don't agree with. I'm done...

Have no issue with player agency and establishing character goals. What bores me is the attempt to systemize agency with strict rules and elaborate mechanics. Playing a character is an art not a science. This feels very much like trying to solve a human social problem by completely changing the...

The effort to turn RPG guidelines into hard and immutable rules is as old as the hobby itself.

The method of starting with chess as the analogy to RPG makes me tend to agree. Why are we putting competitive boardgame constraints and frameworks on a cooperative storytelling exercise? Answer: because some people want RPG to be more like board (and computer) games.

It would need to be made extraordinarily easy (no red tape) and low cost barrier to entry in order for it to have even a chance of working. By the way, I’m all for bringing manufacturing local, it just needs to be feasible.

The intended goal of tariffs has always been to encourage/force business to shift operations to the local country, but it has seldom (if ever) worked out that way. Typically, the business simply continues its current operations, finds other markets and shifts costs to the consumers of the...

I’m wondering if it makes sense for companies to go digital only while this thing shakes out. Less happy for board games which require physical pieces.