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Working on a dragon from Archon Studios and this is the base. I’m trying to improve the quality of my miniatures bases. I started with a dark grey and applied a few washes of brown and some green. Once dry, I used a sponge to apply a light grey over everything. I used Dirty Down Moss effect...

That was something I noticed in the podcast. From it's earliest days, TSR effectively told their employees to go pound sand when it came to pay. "You want to work full time in gaming? You have no other options besides us. It's our way or the highway."

I tend to run short, to the point campaigns. Think Babylon 5 where there's an overarching story with some adventurous interludes that have nothing to do with the main plot.

Maybe X-Files style? Where I start off with a strong premise and the promise of unraveling a mystery only for everyone to realize a few sessions in that I don't know where the story is headed. Deadlands: Spaghetti Westerns. Star Wars: Old serials like Flash Gordon or Radar Men from the...

The only D&D novels I read were a few of the Ravenloft ones, but, man, I sure remember seeing those novels at B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, Kroger, and later Barnes & Noble when they arrived in my neck of the woods.

I'm not really complaining there seems to be fewer books published for particular game lines as I am just noticing it. AD&D 2nd edition had somewhere north of 300 books/boxed sets published for it over the years including settings, books on classes, races, time periods, monstrous compendiums...

For games I don't take very seriously, like D&D or Fallout, I will often describe violent actions in graphic, over-the-top detail. For Fallout in particular, I describe scenes like you might in the video game series where heads, arms, and legs are often separated from the body by a judicious...

I think that's a fair criticism. Power creep has been the bane of many a game over the years. I think my most favorite splatbooks have been setting material, specifically the ones that cover a single city. Ryoko Owari: City of Lies for Legend of the Five Rings, Night City for Cyberpunk 2020...

I specifically excluded PDFs. The number of GURPS books would have been greater had I included PDFs. I was thinking of number of books/products published for specific game lines rather than gaming books in the aggregate. I certainly haven't noticed a shortage of RPGs in general these last few...

In what way are they a burden?

My last bovine mini…for now.

Inspired by the threads What Does a "Successful" RPG Look Like and Jason Carl on White Wolf's Return, Mage: The Ascension Plans, @Ruin Explorer got me to thinking. Just looking back and the sheer number of books published for various games in the 80s, 90s, and into the 2000s, my perception is...

Bingo. For my Rogue Trader game, we loved the setting, we thought the premise sounded really fun, but once we started playing it we came to dislike the rules. More recently, I tried running Cyberpunk Red for my group and we quickly came to dislike the system. Not just the system, but the...

I didn't play a whole lot of X-Wing, but I thought it was a good game. X-Wing was fairly popular in Little Rock for a while, but I think all that ended with 2nd edition. A lot of people just didn't see the need to update and the X-Wing scene kind of died. Armada was pretty much dead on...

I have it on good authority it's called the Micah clause at WotC.

That happened to my group when I ran Fantasy Flight's version of Rogue Trader way back in 2010-11. In this particular case, after a few sessions, the players and I (DM) had a little chat about how much we disliked the system. We ended up deciding to play something else. Right now I'm running...

It's tough to translate attribute values in D&D to real life equivalents. As it says in my favorite part of the 2024 DMG, the rules are not meant to represent reality they're meant to make for a fun, playable game. i.e. I'm not really concerned about a realistic distribution of any attributes...