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The same way a lot of my family and coworkers are Star Wars fans but won’t watch anything else sci-fi. One is more culturally adopted and the other is for nerds. And nobody wants to be a nerd!

I feel that pain from years of doing community content. You hear a cry for adventures, but the unspoken words are "adventures that I haven't already run, that personally intrigue me, and I feel like buying when I get around to it." Selling Adventures are like selling ice cream, really! Lots of...

"I want the rules to be fair for both the PCs and NPCs, until I need the NPCs to go down to make me look cool."

Being kickass can be subjective sometimes. My son didn't like 5e for the longest time because the numbers were too low. He would complain how a Pathfinder fighter would kick a 5e fighter's butt. He stopped for a moment when I pointed out that a PF fighter is never going to meet a 5e fighter...

I don't like the fumes so I do APMRPGS. I am even lazy, so I switched to CPMRPGS lately. Though there are times I just do TotM. Funny story, I was the only person using dry brushing as my main technique and then a bit of inking for all of my painting. I even left the undersides less painted...

Sweet summer child. This industry has been getting in legal gray areas and lawsuits since the dawn of it all: Halfings and the Tolkien estate The first edition of Deities and Demigods Battledroids vs Battletech The Unseen mechs of Battletech T$R's own barrage of cease and desist orders to the...

RPGs played on a computer used to be called CRPGs and D&D was an RPG. At some point computer game journalism dropped the "C" and called CRPGs simply RPGs. I guess this was in the 90s or so? Yet when the tabletop rpg industry started getting traction again, instead of adding using CRPG again...

This shared attribute made my college Pendragon game the go-to for pick up and play and a campaign setting I ran for years. Players would ask what year it was in the game, roll up some faux adventures on the tables to catch up on some skills and Glory and then we'd play a session.

This is not a knock on the games themselves, but whenever I see some bro go "hard" on Twitter saying he runs his OSR table "realistic" as compared to whatever reason triggered his comment, I am so tempted to post, "With levels and XP and having to kill off PCs before they over level? Really...

I agree it can be - but for some gamers they want the easy win, mostly because life doesn't hand those out very often. Gaming for them is a sanctuary, not a contest. I have players loving DB because nothing is predictable and yet I have one player now being super cautions and want to get as...

When 5e first came out, my son had this issue with 5e. "Look at how much weaker a 5e fighter is to a 3e fighter!" He had a think after I said it was lucky then a 5e fighter is never going to face a 3e fighter. :ROFLMAO: I think for some players, the bigger numbers matter even if it makes no...

Grabs standard popcorn bucket. Avoids looking at Dune popcorn bucket.

Small digression about the Dragonbane Community discord. It has slowed down but for a long time on a weekly basis, we would a new member state DB felt "weird" because it lacked X. X equaled some D&D-ism of some sort, be it a lack of clearly defined clerics, kin with darkvision, etc. Some of...

I'm probably thinking too deep, but it does sort of harken the faux Wild West/Settler nature of D&D. Either the fast draw at high noon or whoever pulls their weapon out and dashes in first does the most damage before the enemy can react to the hero's whirlwind of death. Both images are sort of...

Then there's a whole 40 year old game that is still around, Battletech, where "winning" initiative is moving your pieces after your opponent so you can react to their movement and have more information. It also helps the game has a "declare and lock in targets first/simultaneous combat" phase...

I ran into a fellow who thought DB would make a good Dragon Age video game (where one player is running the whole team) but disliked the idea of playing it at the table because the combat would force him to do "boring things." Digging deeper, his idea of "teamwork" was doing everyone doing...

You're making my point, implying a sci-fi game's science should be challenged by the gamers at the table. Which often stops the flow of the game once the GM introduces FTL, as it's all theoretical and one person's "correct" FTL theory is someone else's "incorrect" theory. People seem to play a...

For Riddermound, I offered Myth and Legend rolls to reveal the main' monster's weakness.

If you look over Piazo's Adventure Path series, you will notice the early one go from 1-20 and it seems they all end up with a climax somewhere in the planes. A few years later and the paths' final levels are 12 to 15.

Considering the first thing these mergers do is cut ttrpg coverage, we need to click on something soon and often on the outlets were we like the coverage. Any suggestions?