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When the movie came out, I was a bit on the fence. Not too long ago, I noticed it popping up on Netflix (I think) and I was surprised at how much I wanted to watch it again! Then I re-watched it and I think it exceeded my expectations. I'll just go ahead and say it, then: Honor Among Thieves...

I completed the 3 goals I had set for 2024: Keep on running my PF2e campaing (The PCs have just hit lvl 20 last week, we'll be finishing in a about a month or two). Get a higher paying and higher seniority job in the games industry (got it working for an RPG, even!). Start a game with my...

I too favor long campaigns broken into thematic chunks. I think that PF2e's advancement works really well for this kind of play. The ammount of challenges that are required for a party to gain 1 level is about the size of a short adventure. You can string 2 to 4 of those into an overarching...

Very cool article! Looking forward to more of this kind of content.

Very good set of guidelines!

While it being a successor is high debatable as you point out, the more puzzling thing to me is that they chose to draw on the original Dark Alliance games for name recognition. Don't get me wrong, the Snowblind games are all bangers (original DA I-II, Champions of Norrath I-II, War in the...

Weird that they used different titles for the books instead of differentiating them some other way. But it's rather funny that the "easier to grasp" title went to the 5e version XD

Just went over the classes and they look really fun! Low level Necros might be a bit iffy with the ammount of thralls they get, and the Rune Dude might run into issues with action economy, but they seem super fun in general.

Oh, this sheet looks super readable. Congrats on the Alpha test! I really don't like 5e, but if I ever seriously consider running a game with that system, I'll definitely check Level Up out, bc I like what I've been seeing of it.

Neat collection of gift ideas. Don't care much for the figure, but to each their own. The pot is rad. IME, the gift geeks want the most is just your presence. Send a message to your friends, try to organize a get together. Play some boardgames, RPGs or just hang out. The best present is time...

If SF2E is anything like PF2E balance wise (something that, from what I've seen, is true), then 10th level content will work wonderfully well. I'm currently running a lvl 18 PF2E game that started on lvl 2 and we've been hassle free from up until around lvl 16. These past 2-3 levels have...

Steve Jackson's Steve Jackson presents: Steve Jackson. I haven't had the pleasure of reading/playing with these game books, but I was a huge fan of the Choose your own Adventure line when I was young. I also have very fond memories of "The Pillars of Pentegarn", a similar game of the D&D...

When I see something I have an objection against, I speak up rather than keeping quiet. These kinds of articles shape the hobby and steer it towards places I (and many other) rather it not go. I like having conversations about these issues and have a general distrust of people who look to...

The best games I've been a part of are the ones in which we moved away from traditional european pseudo-medieval settings and explored more diverse (and less played out) backdrops. This series of articles is not my jam. I'm a bit worn out of constantly gazing at the same 3 or 4 navels.

Interesting article and interesting take. I distinctly remember changing my view of the Grisha once they showed just how lethal they were in combat while watching Shadow and Bone (there's a kind of Grisha who can stop people's hearts basically at will), so this is definitely a very big...

Very much looking forward to the next series of articles. These ones have been a big miss IMO. "European fantasy setting" is a bit of an overused trope after all. As vanilla as they come.

To be fair, they took a gamble with Owlcat that really paid off. Kingmaker and Wrath got rave reviews and totaly slap. Can't say the same for the other projects, though. The MMO was disastrous, suposedly, and the survival game looks a bit meh. Personally I wouldn't characterize the graphics as...

The fact that they are listing the companions as romanceable (something that, tbh, I can take or leave) hints that there will be an involved narrative, so that is actually some really good news IMHO. Not getting my hopes up, but crossing my fingers hard. The last time I backed a PF Kickstarer I...

The most important thing that will inform the amount of planning that goes into a game is the game system itself, IMO. This is at the crux of the "Combat as Sport" (low-planning) vs "Combat as War" (high-planning) dichotomy. And, at the same time, both of those kinds of systems encourage...

My main takeaway from these articles is the general gatekeeping in the TTRPG industry against the experiences of people who are not wealthy enough have these kinds of travelling opportunities.