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I've likened watching modern Netflix to ouroboros swallowing its own tail. The whole service seems to be an example of Pop Will Eat Itself, and the same thing seems to be happening with HBO in the States. Nowadays if Netflix are making something I a) take it with a pinch of hemlock and b) refuse...

In low-effort "fun" games, I'll do a straight gp conversion and there'll be no hassle gaining these components. In a game with a more serious tone/playstyle, I make the PCs trek to where you would logically find that stuff. So dwarves or high-end gem-dealers for the 1000gp diamond, or maybe an...

This is very clever. I am de-authorising and revoking this trick and trademarking it for myself. If you wish to continue doing this at the start of your games, please contact my attorneys at HasbroHatchets.com...

I think it's because RPGing is a hobby. I play squash, but I don't hammer a squash ball off a wall or stand about swinging a racket in my spare time, because although I enjoy playing squash I'm just not that invested in it. I'm very invested in my bodywork, so I do that whenever I get a free...

Back in the day when TSR was very litigious there were still plenty of off-brand supplements for (A)D&D. All you needed was a super-secret-decoder-ring to parse things like "hits to kill", "Attack & Defending Numbers", "injury dice" or whatever. I imagine with the almost worst case scenario...

Hasbro and WotC do not care about D&D. It is simply a brand they're using to leverage greater short-term returns, returns that will look good on a balance sheet; and as that balance sheet doesn't look so hot these days, they will apply all the leverage they can, including until the lever snaps...

I have nothing against those who continue to support WotC and D&D in whatever walled-garden they end up building. I get it, I've had an iPhone; walled gardens can be lovely, relaxing places compared to the open wilds. But I stand with those comrades who refuse to accept or support the corporate...

For the longest time I've wanted to re-tool D&D into an incremental-advancement story game, but it's always been a "hypothetical" because there are better games to do that with. Filled with the spirit of righteous indignation, I have started this project. It will most likely only see use at my...

It's what gives me some shred of faith in his statement. The parting, it's so beautiful...

Which is why I said nerd Nestle. For many, the brand will be untouchable, as Nestle is for another, larger many. Years ago, on a barge trip round Amsterdam, me and the wife got talking to the American female couple in front of us. One of them was a brand manager for Nestle. My wife in...

Yes, they have lost my dollars. Yes, they have lost my group's collective dollars. Yes, they have lost the dollars of the other GM in my group, who has pivoted to PF2 faster than a dancer on ice. And in that short-term-profit-motive-moment they might not care. But others like me will chip away...

I do hope that Matt Mercer, with his Tatooine boy-racer haircut, is going to follow the Force with this. If he doesn't, that's okay. We will not be disappoint. But even us OGL-nihilists are allowed a glimmer of hope, when we see the hair.

I'll skip back and read the thread after this post, but this should anser the question. I've been a fan of D&D since I was 8 years old. Forty years of "lifestyle brand loyalty". Four decades as a(n) (A)D&D DM and player. And Hasbro took a flamethrower to that loyalty over the space of one week...

The editorial after the comic is well worth a read, comrades.

1. Not the Shang-Chi I grew up reading, but Moon Knight was close enough to the Moon Knight I did grow up reading (and was so good) that I gave Shang-Chi a pass. Awkwafina did a lot of the heavy lifting for this, imho. Would have much preferred it to be OG Master of Kung Fu, though, without the...

I'm a big fan of BitD and yeah, that's totally what I just re-invented! Just like classic CoC and the end of Dracula, the players have to heavily stack the odds in their favour (crates of dynamite, NPC SWAT team cannon fodder, industrial smelter, pouring concrete, a meteor strike) to get the...

Obviously not all skill rolls are going to be about the final confrontation, and minion monsters would have increased chances of success versus boss monsters in the earlier parts of a scenario. But I think for a monster-hunting game I'd start with the chances of surviving/completing the final...

From what I'm reading here, it sort of looks like (when I squint): Easy: 90% chance to run away from the monster Moderate: 60% chance to escape after inflicting some damage/complication to the monster Difficult: 36% chance to destroy/imprison the monster

You know what's a game I don't enjoy playing? Bridge. You know what's an objectively great game? Bridge.

Burning Wheel and Mythras are as crunchy as I get, and I never run Mythras with all the options switched to "on".