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My wife is a big fan of the books and has talked them up for years. The novels are nordic noir. The show switched the location to Edinburgh for some reason. We’ve watched the first two and she’s mostly onboard.

Relevant bits start just over an hour in.

The further away the History of the World TV series people are from this the better. I hope it’s good.

If it’s even 1¢ it’s too much.

At least when people start threads promoting terrible people I get to add a bunch of names to my ignore list. It's really depressing how elfgames are more important to some than real people's lives and rights.

The creator is one of the people who gives the OSR its bad reputation. There are hundreds of better games out there by less problematic creators.

Meant to post this here but dropped it in one of the other threads on accident. Since there seems to be a wave of BS about the Daggerheart license here’s a video with some chat on the topic. Relevant bits start just over an hour in.

Since there seems to be a wave of BS about the Daggerheart license here’s a video with some chat on the topic. Relevant bits start just over an hour in.

Exactly. They need to show off what’s unique about the game. Really showcase what it can do that 5E can’t. Here’s to hoping this is an intentional ramp up.

Yeah. It's enough to overcome the glaring moral issues. That's really depressing.

Exactly. You absolutely can drive your manual-transmission Lamborghini while only ever using first gear, but it's going to be slow and fight you along the way. Best to use all available gears when appropriate. Same with using 5E to run a pure mystery or intrigue game, you absolutely can but...

Daggerheart playtest. I've had to use side-based initiative to keep things from going completely mental with both a spotlight hog player and an overly shy and quiet player. Running combat is easier by far than 5E, but the players are clearly 5E-only players. This is like an epic comedy of...

A surprising amount of people are really, really attached to their in-game racism. I run games that are explicitly non-racist even when doing the low-fantasy thing. Even when playing 5E I’ve had people rage-quit because orcs and goblins weren’t inherently, mindlessly evil as a species.

Soda or pop. They're interchangeable. Coke and Pepsi are two specific kinds of soda or pop.

Exactly. It's apparently binding for Goodman but not Bledsaw. If it's binding for both, then Bledsaw's already violated the contract, which would give Goodman a legal out...and yet he's not taken it. No matter how many times this gets spun around or argued about, Goodman clearly wants to create...

He’s one of the designers of Daggerheart, specifically the Adversaries section, so I’m sure his posts are generally good and helpful. But I’m not looking for “ask yourself what purpose does the monster serve in the story” kind of answers. I’m looking for the underlying math behind monster...

The one that really flipped the switch for me on adventure fiction and pacing was Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer. It’s the origin of the scene-sequel structure that so many writers use (including Jim Butcher of Dresden Files fame), but it works especially well for...

When running open-world sandboxes, the closest match is the open world video game. When running most anything more limited in scope, it’s some combination of Claremont’s X-Men, X-Files, Supernatural, Fringe, etc with solid Monster of the Week vibes with slow burn or build B and C background...

That’s the feeling I get just about any time I sit down with robust random tables for creating things. They have a way of sparking creativity that just sings. How do these pieces fit together? How to make this seemingly incongruent result work? Why would that be so and how? What would happen if...

The movies have been doing the summer crossover logic from the comic books for awhile now. Once that started I checked out. Hated it in the comics and hate it here.