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So Judges Guild - whose statements on any other topic most people here would view pretty sceptically - said something that would let people get into a purity storm about Goodman Games, so a bunch of folks chose to unquestioningly presume that they were being truthful. Then it turns out yet...

These Travellers love stealing robots.

The revision/expansion of LMoP is a trash-tier set of additions that someone has thrown a match onto, starting a garbage fire.

I’d describe the mileu/setting as the Campaign World and then the individual campaigns run within that. My campaign world has been running since 85 (three years after I started playing) and two of my current players have each taken part in multiple campaigns within it. To answer the OP: LMoP...

Can’t believe you would say no as player-dm to your players what a linear railroad you run smh.

Didn’t realise Wizards were quite so involved with TSR in 1982. 🤔 For me it would be Lost Mine of Phandelver. One of the best D&D adventures ever released - I’d say even better than T1 - and the only classic of the 5e period.

So you’re saying that in Soviet’s sandbox, player DMs you? I became convinced, several pages ago, that the whole playstyle is some internal construction that exists wholly in his head. The Supreme Court of Weekend TTRPG Justice that convenes each Sunday but has a light caseload does nothing but...

I've heard you talk about these (and your "candles" metaphor) often on your podcast. I'm no anti-WotC zealot - I do DM a 5e campaign fortnightly (albeit I admit I'd prefer 2nd Edn in my dreamworld!) - but I think it's interesting that three of these are either partially or wholly involuntary on...

Thank you for all this detail! I hope your third group is more like the first than the second. My wife and I were in a kinda rpg of the month type group for a bit and while I understand why some folks enjoy the ludic, system-exploration novelty aspect of the hobby, we both prefer the prolonged...

You mentioned in another thread that you’d run Drinax twice before, and were on your third time through it. I’d be super-keen to hear how each had gone, what worked, what was more problematic about running it, what approaches the players took and so on.

The other campaign I currently run is a 5e one. I’d far rather it was 2e, but I compromised with the players by saying that I’d do 5e as they wanted (that lot are Pathfinder players but they wanted to try out the 5e) but with half the progression rate. We’ve been playing fortnightly without a...

I’m running Drinax right now for a party of mainly 5e-only players. I was worried they’d sit there and await the next instalment of the adventure path at each point (and that I’d burn through the adventures in the main book and Drinaxian Companion trying to kickstart them) but all but one of...

Great work but thanks so much for including the prompt. I wish more people in the thread remembered to do this.

“Contrafibularities? Why, ‘tis a common enough word down our way.” Even before you posted about watching 10-20 games in a day, I suspected that you were one of those people who watches a lot but doesn’t get to play. Your highly idiosyncratic view of what role playing games are like in practise...

That’s Reynard’s whole point: you’re just repeating it back to him. He is saying precisely that the sandbox experience can be retold as a linear narrative, but that this is illusionary. Essentially, retelling the experience as a narrative is like Flatland, where the 2D inhabitants cannot...

Every post you make seems to suggest that you think that sandbox games are necessarily hyper-collaborative and wholly reflexive, with what you refer to as a “player-dm” fully participating in a radically non-privileged way in the game, as the players shape the world by making assertions about it...

It doesn’t have to be improv, of course. On discord after each session, I ask the players what they want to do in the next session, and I prep that (or, more often, those). Obviously, improv comes into every session, but it’s not the defining feature. Also I see that sealion bloke came across...

The good thing about novel games offering a "fresh take" that revitalise the RPG experience with edgy and modernised approaches is how much they make me appreciate going back and playing the classics after a couple of sessions.

Traveller (I’d go with the latest Mongoose version) Call of Cthulhu AD&D 2nd Edition Vampire: the Masquerade 1st Edition Warhammer FRP Shadowrun 2e D&D 3rd Edition Delta Green

Marc was selling off various material, a decade or so ago. I have his original sketch for the Broadsword mercenary cruiser framed in my study and I’m unreasonably proud of it. Of course I’m not 100% sure how many of the original plans of the Broadsword he sold… 🤔