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Cool. Welcome back to the hobby. That's easy. Enforce the logical consequences of his character's actions in the fiction of the game. He's trying to face-tank monsters as a rogue? His character would get attacked and probably die in short order. So be it. Let him die. His next character will...

Honestly, at this point...nothing. There are no systems that I have to have provided. I have so many systems floating around in my head that I'm much happier improvising a system or mixing-and-matching systems on the fly than worrying about what some book says. You can run from some basic...

The show must go on. If one player can’t make it, play the scheduled game anyway. If the referee or multiple players can’t play, try something simple like Cards Against Humanity, poker, dominoes, or a backup one-shot RPG. Something super-light like Honey Heist or Lasers & Feelings.

A live-action series starring Nick Cage as Spider-Man Noir. As someone who loves superheroes, Spider-Man, pulp adventures, and noir...this is all the things. Really looking forward to this. https://cosmicbook.news/nicolas-cage-spider-man-noir-first-look Teaser trailer...

With enough exposure to finding gems and selling them they'd likely be able to tell the different between types of stones (onyx vs opal, etc), so that's a gimme. Unless the PC wants to spend 20-30 minutes examining each gem with the proper tools they won't know the exact value. If they're...

"I didn't come here for a discussion. I came here for an argument. And by the gods I'm going to have an argument if it kills you." Yes, we know. We all know.

By that logic it’s Brownsteins all the way down and nothing else matters.

Yes. It’s OSR.

Brownstein spawned Blackmoor. Blackmoor spawned D&D. Also Traveller, Tunnels & Trolls, Paranoia, Toon, Ghostbusters, WEG Star Wars, Marvel FASERIP, DC Heroes, and GURPS. In the OSR, OSRIC for kicking it off. Old-School Essentials for being the long-time dominant game. And increasingly...

That would be preferable for fire season, but people won’t like the massive uptick in popcorn lung and cancer.

Watching Event Horizon in the theater. It’s a campy and kinda gnarly horror sci-fi movie. The movie’s going along, the audience is into it, and the horror is popping. There’s like a 5-10 minute sequence in there where it’s nothing but grotesque horror after grotesque horror. No release or...

Nog is one of the best characters in Star Trek. He’s got one of the best arcs, if not the best arc, in the franchise. No spoilers for those new to DS9 but it’s an absolute treat.

I guess letting people like unproblematic things really is too much to ask.

As you wish. The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same tired old arguments about the OSR scene and OSR-style play. There are plenty of other threats to hate on games and play styles you don’t like.

Maybe. But it’s such and easy fix to make. If the only thing holding you back from enjoying the game is the lethality, remove it. But if you dislike the entire OSR scene and Shadowdark specifically, it’s kinda weird you’re posting in a thread about Shadowdark and OSR-style play.

Yeah, exactly so. There's a vast excluded middle between those. The arguments typically go something like: only the main show (running D&D) draws in the big numbers and the one-shots or mini-campaigns (that use any other system) draw in much lower numbers, therefore they should stick with D&D...

I love shorts and novellas and I don't mind buying them at all. My issue is I want these specific stories to be longer.

Finished Artificial Condition, aka Murderbot 2, by Martha Wells last night. It was pretty good. Nice quick read. I liked Art as a character and enjoyed the A and B stories. I’m a big fan of short stories and novellas but would like a novel-length story of Murderbot, even if only 40,000 words.

That reads better than “in-fiction game elements worth using in other games” doesn’t it? The premise is simple. What bits of fictional contrivance to you take from one game to another? Two examples I regularly use are Cyphers from Numenera and Green Boxes from Delta Green. Cyphers are...

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair