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Your paint jobs and the sculpts of the models you select evoke gaming for me! You’re very talented & skilled, and it’s a pleasure seeing your work. Thanks for sharing it.

Top Five (non-D&D) 1. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4th) 2. Call of Cthulhu (7th) 3. Legend of the Rings (L5R) 4. Mythras 5. Alien RPG

Agree with what Retreater had to say, although I think you’ll be safe diving in without the Starter Set, and going straight to the core rulebook. I’ve run the first book of this Enemy Within campaign in 1e, 3e, and 4e Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and also in D&D 5e. You can absolutely tell the...

There are certain game designers whose work I admire immensely. I owe people like Gygas & Arneson, Greg Stanford, Kevin Ross, Oscar Rios, Graeme Davis, Gareth Hanrahan, Mark Morrison, and Gerard Christopher Klug so much for the great times I’ve spent at the table because of their work. With a...

I hear you, but there are people who enjoy them, so why crap on their parade? I think it is a good to remember that the writers and actors portraying these characters were able to bring them to life, to tell their stories, most likely without having an alignment table and descriptions to guide...

You’re not suggesting that the old alignment system equates to critical brand defining elements you describe in your weak strawman? No disagreement there. Who is suggesting that D&D should discard alignment in pursue of sameness as its own sake? Noting that other fine games work very well...

Now how could one take offense to such a dismissive tone. :-) Maybe it’s not THE point (i.e. the one that matters to you), but I do think it’s a worthwhile contribution to note that Alignment can be a useful “gauge” on a dashboard that a DM uses to pilot a game. We seem to be in violent...

Bought, read, and excited to start running this part of the adventure for my group —- and many other parties to come.

Many here have posted about alignment as a useful tool in helping players (and DMs) with broad, shorthand instruction on a players personality and values. I can’t disagree there, but in many great games you’ll see things work perfectly well without alignment. Call of Cthulhu and Warhammer are...

The original post (and referenced article) was a great read. Interesting history. As for how I used drow/dark elves in my games, we’ve never really gotten into describing the extent of hair curl, so I’m not sure I have much to contribute to the inevitable cultural skirmish in the comments. :)...

One of the most common ways that I see fantasy game racism play out is elves vs. humans. The effete cultured elves with their long lives and numerous advantages generally demean short-lived and rash humans as beings of low intellect and artistic/magical accomplishment. They see them as an...

In my games, there’s a lot of conflict and tension. This guild hates that one, this merchant house or family hates its rivals, neighborhoods, towns, regions, countries all have conflicting interests. ”Race” plays a role, too. Dwarves and Elves hold ancient grudges. High elves and Wood elves...

If you’re trying to create isolation and horror, low levels help. This is an appealing offering. Sandboxy mini-adventures is what grabbed me — the alt cover is badass too. The idea of playing a horror story in the cold? D&D does Beyond the Mountains of Madness? This does seem like a very...

A game still largely about killing stuff and looting it, so woke! Political culture seeps into everything. Why should “the world’s greatest roleplaying game” be any different? Honestly I find a lot of this silly, but I am watching WOTC to make sure they make good on their promise of bringing...

Isn't the term orc something Tolkien borrowed from ancient literature that basically equates to "corpse demon"? At the end of the day, this is all a game of make believe, so people get to do whatever they want in their games. Strikes more of misguided virtue signaling to me.

Right now, I can’t begin to have a serious conversation about which dice to use with which weapons for damage until we start treating armor as damage soak vs. hit avoidance AC.

I played more of this RPG than any other back in the day. It's still the game that I compare all other games to in terms of mechanics, adventure design, and even rulebook layout. It played fast and loose with Ease Factor being relatively simple to approximate on the fly once you got used to...

Huge fan of Cubicle 7 here. I’ve been a repeat customer for years and always thrilled with the quality of their products — including the AIME and TOR works. My heart goes out to the team at C7 and to all the fans who’d preordered 2e.

I adore swashbuckler gaming, but 7th Sea’s Theah setting always turned me off. The lazy pseudo-Europe was the Land of False Cognates— similar enough to real world model but with occasional differences between Europe and Theah equivalent to frustrate me. Even among game worlds borrowing heavily...

A growing group of us in Doylestown/Newtown area would like to introduce new players to the joys of gaming in a grim world of perilous adventure. If you'd like to have a go at trudging through muck, absurd dark humor, Chaos and corruption, you're welcome to join us...