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Not to derail the thread, but I think a big cause of what you are describing in media, RPGs aside, is the consolidation of media companies. Fewer book publishers, movie studios and other production houses means fewer points of entry for new talent and more reliance on products that sell well and...

I rarely use puzzles with my current gaming group because several of my players don't seem to find them fun. However, some do so I do through them in on occasion (or they are already in an adventure I bought) and when they get stuck I think the answer is simple - your players are not their...

I only take the benevolent DM stance when running D&D, or more specifically Castles and Crusades (or in the past, Pathfinder 1E), since I haven't run D&D in years. I will usually create an NPC to fill a gap in the party. For example, if no one wants to play a cleric then I will make one and play...

I've tried to do tat a couple of times but never went back to the original campaign so I stopped. Now, when I run a long campaign, I run it start to finish

Castles and Crusades is my go to when the rare occasion presents itself that I want to run a D&D game. You are right that it's a D20 hack but it simplifies the D20 system while having an old school feel. When I play it I feel like I am playing a 2E game (even though I started with B/X and 1E, 2E...

I seem to be pretty lucky. If I want to try a new game my group is happy to give it a try. The biggest problem I run into isn't their willingness but their adaptability to other game styles.

Reading. Mostly Sci-fi & fantasy but a fair amount of science & skepticism. Comics. I used to have about 20 long boxes but I sold some and gave a majority away to the local children's hospital. I read them digitally almost exclusively now. TV & Movies. Mostly Sci-fi but other stuff as well...

Eight pages or longer and I am out. It's too much of a hassle to keep up since I don't check in here daily. Also, I find that by that point there has been so much thread drift that the original topic has been lost. Forums are not where I chose to come for long form reading, I have enough books...

I agree in part. We may also be paying for the lack of real competition in the eReader/eBook marketplace. There are the Nook and Kobo but their market share is tiny compared to the Kindle. We can't say for sure what would happen in this market if there were real competition but my understanding...

Most recently was the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu and the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. Actually, more recently I Kickstarted KULT: Divinity Lost - Dark Realms and Other Horrors including the core rules. I don't actually have it yet so I'm not sure if it counts.

I have so much class I have no choice but to multiclass :p Seriously though, I have played multiclass characters in every version of D&D I have played (and that is a lot of them), excluding 4E & 5E since I never played them, including spinoffs like Pathfinder. I always do so because it fits my...

Depends on the game. In D&D or D&D-like systems the answer is no (with some exceptions) but otherwise it depends on the game/setting. My biggest, but not only, problem with it in D&D, at least in the past since I don't play the current system, is that it is usually a totally different subset of...

SWADE Castles & Crusades Two of the Forged in the Dark games (Blades in the Dark, Scum & Villainy or Band of Blades) Call of Cthulhu Arcana Unearthed or Arcana Evolved. Probably the former Tiny Taverns The Strange

I'm not saying I totally disagree with you here but, in my experience, it's not uncommon for the recognition to regularly go to the same people. At a prior sales job myself and a small handful of people always were recognized for the most sales. I didn't think much about it, after all I was...

I've run Night Below twice, Keep on the Borderlands a few times, U1-3 (The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh series), The Temple of Elemental Evil (including Village of Hommlet), Against the Giants several times and a few of those leading into D1 - D3 and Queen of the Demonweb Pits

In 2010 I moved away from my regular gaming group, we had been playing together for decades, and we didn't want to stop gaming together. I bought Fantasy Grounds to keep playing and have been doing so since. I have played in other local gaming groups but they were all work based groups and when...

I think Old Ben, who lives beyond the Dune Sea, fought in the Great AI Wars

Ok, I mistyped. People make mistakes but that impacts my argument not a bit. I'll go back and correct my post. People in this thread have been arguing many different points of view of this situation but we were replying (several times) to each other so the conversation we were having is what I...

I agree with a lot of what you said but this line stands out as something I have to disagree with. AI companies certainly are doing the same thing. Meta got caught torrenting pirated books to train AI and the only difference between me doing the torrenting or Meta is the financial resources I...

Years ago when I first went to college I took an intro to criminal justice class. We had a guest speaker who was an FBI agent and he told us that they only catch dumb criminals for the most part (I'm old so this was before smartphones and social media and surveillance cameras were less prevalent...