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Count me in on this one. Sounds awesome! Carl

Sign me up as the alternate for this one, please.

I think I posted my interest in this on another thread. Maybe on CM... Anyway, sign me up for this!

Add me to the alternates on this too....just in case.

Wow. What an awesome idea for a game! The Morro Castle story has more dark corners than anything you could make up. Carl

That can be a pitfall, but if you play it right, it should only be the situation that's created by others, and the PCs lead the action in resolving it -- or simply leveraging it to their advantage! It does require players who have a good sense of their characters, pretty high interest in...

That's kind of my take too, though I only played in public settings a couple times and it was many years ago. I found it distracting and disruptive, but more than anything else it made some of the players very self-conscious and inhibited them from getting into character or having as much fun as...

Last year, while cleaning an old box of papers I found my graph paper maps from BT2. A couple friends and I were obsessed with this game for several months in around 1989. Played on a C64. At the time, we had no idea how far along we were, but after finding the maps I looked up a walkthrough...

Mutiny. Some of the best shipboard drama there is. Mutiny is often depicted as a black and white affair: The captain is an evil tyrant deserving what he gets, or the mutineers are a bunch of would-be cutthroats for whom no captain would have been good enough. But in reality it is rarely so...

The Facebook guy was on the cover of Newsweek this week, but I'm not sure I'd call the story particularly insightful.

Favorite used to be a local joint called Jake's, but their food took a bit of dive earlier this year. Don't know why; might have been a new cook or something. We probably ought to give it another chance. 'Til then, we've switched to another local joint, the Ivy Tavern. Awesome food, though the...

Not so much real hope as simply a license to dream, I suspect. At least, that's our rationale. It gives us an excuse to fantasize about all the causes we could support; how much we'd give to who, and how we'd live. Carl

Amen, brother. ENWorld Gamer (or rather "ENWorld Player's Journal", since I think more issues were published under that name) was awesome. And I too liked Dragon a lot better in the early '80s when it covered a lot of different games and had much less of a "house organ" type feel to it...

Call me whatever you want, as long as you can manage to show up at the table! I've never really liked how different games adopt different terms for this (storyteller, game control, referee, gm, dm, god, etc.), but I do tend to defer to the publishers' preferences depending on whatever game I"m...

Yeah, the most recent that really got me thinking about it was a thread about the prospects of a 3rd party successor to Dragon/Dungeon magazines. There were several comments that without the "official" label, no such magazine could survive. Carl

It hadn't even occurred to me that there would be people who didn't get it..... but I now that I think about it, I guess it has been a LONG time since he went off the air. Carl

As for other OOP games, I originally mentioned Top Secret when this thread started and since then, I've discovered a couple others: Blue Planet -- A waterworld-type sci-fi game designed by a marine biologist. The setting is awesome, filled with the kind of attention to detail that only someone...

Well, as long as this thread has been resurrected, I'll throw in my two cents: Alternity is my favorite rpg system of all. I own everything ever published for it, though I don't get to play or run it anywhere near as much as I'd like. Is it more complex? I suppose it depends on how you think...

Monty Haul, we used to call it.

In a couple recent threads, I've heard mention about the significance of the "official D&D product" label. Are there really that many people out there who will only buy official stuff? Certainly, no ENWorlders, I'd assume. But do you know or play with people who will only buy WotC stuff? If...