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Different people play for different reasons, and get different things out of it. I'm of the "do both" camp myself, with character and story edging out mechanics when they conflict. For example, my character took a level in Cleric. It was mechanically a terrible idea, but in the context of my...

Or worse... willing voyeurs... Some people need to learn the meaning of "Fade to Black."

Good bundle, good cause. Bought.

Dear God No. It was a disgusting, vile, sickening peek into the mind of someone (more than one?) with a lot of issues, not a role-playing game.

Years ago, a convention I helped organize had a signage request for the wargamers area to put up signs requesting attendees take a shower. It met with some anger, but that year the wargame room didn't make my eyes water on Sunday morning.

I am a big fan of canon that informs current play, and/or that forms a reliable baseline players can share in the knowledge of. I want players to know or have the ability to look up historical events. But you have to build on top of that starting point. It's not static, the world isn't static...

Why do so many players so often see the premise of a game as a challenge to overcome? If you don't want to play in the premise, then don't join that game, or if you're part of a group, speak up and say that you're not interested. Don't agree to play and then try to break the premise. I see this...

Each book is a separate continent, the main setting for one of the "seasons" of Critical Role. The Green Ronin book details Tal'Dorei, the main setting of the first "season" of Critical Role. Aside from a few trips to Vasselheim (City on a northern Continent), all of the adventures of Vox...

Greyhawk - though this was early and we were young and we didn't really engage the setting. It was all modules in those days. Forgotten Realms was my first published setting as GM, and I ran it for years. Al Qadim worked its way in there near the end. I did a brief bit in Mystarra, a short-lived...

Tal'Dorei was the focus of the Critical Role "season 1." This is your "Vox Machina" stories. The only references to Wildmount I recall were a group from there factored into a key plot point of one story. (I listen to the podcast, haven't finished Season 1 yet, though. :) ) They DID travel to...

Bankrobber, by The Clash.

I'll see if I can dig up the old docs, but here's what I recall... For Over the Edge, I just wanted fast and easy rules. Nothing fancy in the hack. I used the core trait system. with a few bits I borrows from WEG. I permit a PC to have a central trait which describes a Jedi or similar, or a...

Regarding sexual assault... I've used it in the past, and don't anymore since having some things explained to me. But even when I used it, it was never the Big Bad. It's a low and cowardly thing that's beneath even my most evil villains, and so the perpetrators of such are worthless nobodies...

Villain in my game did his own eugenics experiments by secretly placing additives in pharmaceuticals his company made, in an attempt to make a literally super super race. This was the origin of supers in my setting, when the experiment went "wrong" and all sorts of people began to develop powers...

The Force Awakens - I like this movie as-is for the most part. Yes, it's basically a remake of SW, but there was lots to love here. But there's some nitpicks... More Max Von Sydow. I mean, really, you hire a legend like that and kill him in the first scene? Edit out Finn's lines about Rey...

If I had to pick a published SW franchise, it's be WEG. 1e for a pickup game, fast and easy. 2E R&E for something long term. But... if I had my pick among the world, I hacked Over the Edge years back and that's always served me well. If i want more gamey, I hacked Dogs in the Vineyard - which...

Good evening, long time listener, first time caller, love the show... First of all, I can't believe no-one else called you on this nonsense. Of course RPG's are cars! That said, I agree with the general point of the thesis, that cramming more and more and more stuff until someone explodes...

I enjoy the show, but really like the Tal'Dorei setting, which I played in before I knew about the show. I'm a little wary this new book is WotC - not that I dislike WotC, but how will the new book mesh with the Tal'Dorei book, which Green Ronin published?

My son said something similar when we watched our non-special edition. I expressed surprise that he didn't prefer the newer effects (notwithstanding Han Shoots First). He said those newer effects in this older movie stole half the charm of the movie away. Those digital effects inserted into the...

I can't pick just one, so I picked Other. I think because it all gels for me as a whole... very likely wrapped in a healthy dose of nostalgia. But... I watched the original the other day - the one I will always call "Star Wars" - for about the twelve-thousandth time. I watched the stupid little...