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White Wolf isn't really back. This is just a rebrand. Nothing to get excited about.

Having been defunct since 1997, the business Gary started, TSR, does not exist. TSR was wholly consumed by Wizards of the Coast and only exists as a memory. I know I've been pretty critical of Gary in this thread, but I don't think he was just another guy. I know I couldn't have accomplished...

Nobody can take away the role Gygax played in the creation of RPGs as we know it. Although it's ironic Gygax himself was dismissive of the role of others, like Arneson, in the creation of RPGs as we know it. Gygax was and will continue to be an icon of the industry like Ford is to the...

I made my dwarves Bavarians. They mostly lived underground, but some of them lived on the surface because hops and barley aren't going to grow themselves. Most of the dwarves living underground thought the farmers were crazy and didn't understand how they kept themselves from falling into the sky.

You all have my permission to use any NPC or PC I've created as inspiration for your own games. It won't bother me in the least.

On day one of my job at a hobby shop the manager said to me, “Don’t ever bad mouth anything we’re selling. It’s okay to say it’s not your thing, but don’t tell them it’s bad.” I was a bit turned off by Candela Obscura because I kept hearing the game described as not having all the yucky...

Gygax himself credited Williams with righting the ship when he brought her aboard. Williams might not have been a gamer herself, but just working at TSR means she had something to do with the hobby.

Of course not, she was a business woman who wanted to save the business she had been tasked with protecting. She didn’t do it out of kindness, she was looking to make money.

It's the only reason I own any version of Zombicide. It was a great way to get a lot of Old West miniatures for use with Deadlands.

I own a crap ton of Games Workshop miniatures, so I'm in no position to talk about "realistic" purchases. (Looks back at $1,200 worth of Imperial Knights sitting on his shelf.) The folks I know who have purchased from Hero Forge aren't typically the type of folks who are big into miniatures...

It's been a running gag through the whole adventure so far. Every single time a PC says Becky the NPC they're talking to asks, "With the good hair?"

Woody: What are you up to, Mr. Peterson? Norm: My ideal weight if I was eleven feet tall.

My Greyhawk campaign is going along swimmingly. The PCs are currently in the Gnarly Forest because Becky with the Good Hair, a recently divorced beekeeping storm giantess, possesses the mellified body of Chef Ramsay which the PCs are hoping to get their hands on. Poor Becky is beset by...

No so much a recent purchase as a delivery on a pre-order. I ordered God's Hunt for Delta Green last year and it arrived via the United States Postal Service yesterday. God's Hunt is a series of individual scenarios that can be used along with the campaign God's Teeth. I haven't had an...

Still the best Superman theme.

My store stopped carrying Reaper a few years before COVID even hit and only started stocking them again this past month. Reaper seems to be doing okay overall. They started a pilot program selling their miniatures under another brand name at various Michael's locations and plan on expanding...

None of that really changes that there was a fair amount of skullduggery (I love that word) on the part of Williams in her takeover of TSR. I don't say that to suggest her actions existed in a vacuum or to vilify her, just that her actions give me the "pretty sneak, sis," vibe. Telling the...

It's a reminder of just how low paying the RPG industry can be. TSR was all too happy to pay low wages, knowing there weren't many other places employees could go if they wanted to keep working on games. He really, really did. Hubris, thy name is Gary. He was also offered something like...

Ditto. For the price point, it just doesn't seem worth it to me. Though I do have some players who are quite happy with theirs. Sometimes they'll order a miniature from HF when the campaign begins and I just hope for their sake their character is still alive when the miniature arrives.

It's walk-in only. While they'll announce a sale online, you've got to walk in and see what's actually on the table. I was surprised to see so many WizKids models. But then it hasn't looked like they've been restocking for a few months now.