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I used to houserule…not heavily, but a steady-ish stream of small adjustments. The older I get, the less I do that. If a game seems to me to need significant houseruling, I’m likelier to just skip it. If done my share of rules design - some (I think) very good, some not so hot, but but with the...

A&E started within a year of D&D being published, in 1974, as non-RPG players in Apa-L, the apa for the LA Science Fantasy Society, got increasingly annoyed at how much space RPG stuff was taking up. A significant fraction of early rec.games.frp regulars had experience in A&E and The Wild Hunt...

Elegy may be worth a look for some folks. It’s designed from Ironsworn’s foundations, and like its ancestor, solo-oriented but perfectly capable of group play, too. It takes a great deal of inspiration from. Both Vsmpire lines, but from a lot of other. Sources too, and combines interesting...

It took literally only weeks for almost all of the people who’d most prominently made noise about how good it was that Classic would bring back slow leveling and gear progression to be joining in power leveling runs designed by private server aces. When I briefly tried it a couple years later...

No. It helps get people’s attention. That you are someone more concerned with making some statement that communicating clearly or effectively. How often are you yourself persuaded by a random stranger dropping in on some existing exchange to shout something hyperbolic with a lot of caps? How...

William Hjortsberg, who wrote Falling Angel (the book Angel Heart is based on), also wrote the screenplay for Legend.

Notice the difference: The point of s business is to make money. The point of a business is to do a particular thing and, hopefully, make money doing it.

This is one way Nature signals us not to do business with someone.

As the band Daniel Amos put it in 1982:

A fair number of folks we both consider friends or at least acquaintances who go to GenCon play very few games there, mostly just short demos. They buy a lot of games along with their socializing, but play them later; when they do game at the con, it’s heavily tilted toward the annual chance to...

People have tried scrying with GenCon since there was a GenCon to scry with. Mostly it works if you’re designing a product to sell at GenCon.

I believe the two volume collected works has them all, but nothing as confident as with Lem.

Glad it worked for you! It’s such a thing.

Oh, there’s an endorsement, along with the author and publisher. I’ll get it when I next have the free cash.

I wasn’t familiar the last half-dozen groups here, and they killed me. I am dead. But I died happy. I think the 1920s one dealt the decisive blow. [Jorge Luis Borges has entered the chat.] I have been meaning to read these for decades. I gotta fix that pronto.

I’d be up for actually well-done critiques of D&D, and of other RPGs - it’s not like any of them is above all criticism. And every so often I’m on the edge of the news and wanting a fuller explanation of what the current controversy may be. And like that. I’ve just learned more warning signs...

Okay, now that’s unexpected and cool-sounding. Thanks!

My group started dabbling pretty quickly. From D&D to Traveller, Superhero 2044, Arduin, Star Frontiers, Chivalry & Sorcery, Villains & Vigilantes, RuneQuest, Top Secret…we continued cycling back to D&D between and alongside whatever else, but we had fun checking things out.

My version of “not early D&D edition” would be QuestWorlds, or Lords of Gossamer & Shadow, or Loner, or Fate Accelersted. I’d be unlikely to get as close to D&D as Savage Worlds. Just to help folks orient.

I’ve found that I’m a terrible judge of good faith a lot of time. I’ve also found that if I shift my concern to “Does this person reliably give me more stress than they give me rewards (good feeling, interesting ideas, etc)?”, then it doesn’t really matter to me as an individual. It does and...