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Thanks @darjr ! In the future if we see something like this again what's the best way to handle it? DM you on mastodon or ping you here?

There are games with bad mechanics, but that doesn't necessarily make them bad games to play. Palladium's games are awful when it comes to mechanics and yet I had a lot of fun playing TMNT when I was a kid. The games that I find to be bad games are the ones where the mechanics don't align with...

Yeah - I was just surprised by some of the disturbing content that showed up in my feed. I reported the individual accounts - I should have realized the whole instance should probably be blocked. @Morrus is listed as the admin of chirp on it's About page.

Itch's annual "Solo but not alone" bundle has kicked off https://itch.io/b/2256/solo-but-not-alone-4

A version control system with requirements to snapshot steps would be one approach, and git uses similar technology to blockchain (both of them are basically distributed Merkle trees), so if you squint there's a kind of blockchain-ish argument. But a checkpointed write-only version control...

I ran both Standing Stone and Nightfang Spire - in fact I've actually used Standing Stone multiple times via reskinning (I've even run it twice for the same group - once in 3e and once in 13th age - and they didn't realize it was the same adventure at its core until I told them later). Bastion...

I went to look at what ads I was being served and then remembered - I don't see them anymore because I became a supporter. I'm tempted to log out and see what I'd get - I bet it's the big old ugly Temu ad that has been following me everywhere lately.

This is pretty much why for as much as my nostalgia wants me to buy into the TMNT Kickstarter that's going on right now I just cannot. It's not nearly as much money as folks spent on the Robotech KS but even "just" $100 is too much given the history of the company.

It's easy to miss that it's a game bundle. I originally thought it was just novels and only clicked through to see what novels they had and was pleasantly surprised by the variety.

Humble Bundle also has a big Doctor Who book bundle that includes a lot of rpg books in with other books : Humble Book Bundle: Doctor Who Megabundle 2023

It's almost like declaring bankruptcy to get out of a lawsuit that you filed might actually not be a good tactical move.

I may be reading it wrong, but since it says "sales" and not "profits" that suggests it also doesn't include production costs.

Ah - I did not know this. That does make a difference. The Savage Rifts Kickstarter that I bought into was a very smooth one.

TMNT was one of the first non-D&D RPGs I was a GM for. I'm still not 100% sure I actually used the rules of the game as written to play it. I still have the copy I had when I was a kid, though it's one of my more beaten up RPG tomes (and the plastic is peeling off the cover - though that's been...

Yeesh. At least it looks like their pre-order page has shifted to "be notified when the pre-order comes" and is a $0.00 preorder for the preorder. But it isn't even on their Project Status page. At least the BtS 2e Arcanum sourcebook is listed as "in development" and it's "only" been 11 years...

A completely normal D&D novel written by someone who has written multiple previous Forgotten Realms and D&D novels no less. I saw that headline when I was browsing the news this morning and didn't click on it because I assumed Wizards was doing some kind of Actual Play podcast or something and...

Working for me on Firefox.

I mean, I'm perfectly willing to believe that Hasbro can be incompetent at some things - like generally realizing that their business moves are going to have PR fallout and not being good at thinking them through, or getting a bit too focused on "what will make money" over "what will be better...

^ This. Hasbro is interested in playing with the big boys. They have a history of direct partnerships with both Target and WalMart. They distribute directly to Amazon. They don't actually need to work with a distributor for the big stores because they're already their own distributor. Not sure...

Planescape is D&D but D&D is not necessarily Planescape :) He's pitching the Planescape set as being applicable to anyone who plays D&D, really talking up about how all of the elements of the boxed set are things that folks could potentially use in their own home campaigns regardless of...