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I guess Cleese must have another divorce to pay for.

It doesn’t look especially camp. I was expecting Charles Hawtrey “Carry On” style.

I’ll take “Ironic Company Names” for one million dollars, Alex.

Rock-solid audio and video, with an easy option to share files. That covers everything I can picture needing. At the moment we use Jitsi and Google Drive etc. Easy to move to another platform if something changes or isn’t working well (we used Hangouts for a good while, but Jitsi has been much...

Things are a lot simpler if you don’t include “computer RPGs” as a type of RPG. Because they’re not. We shan’t see an actual computer RPG this side of true artificial intelligence. Ultima etc are a different sort of game. But… …before anyone jumps in: yes, I’m aware that this is a battle lost...

I’ve never adopted the term TTRPG as an alternative to RPG and doubt I’ll ever see the need, so whether it’s played in a room together or over a video chat makes no difference. Life’s confusing enough without adding endless unnecessary initialisms.

A great game to play, if you have a dedicated GM who can embrace the detail. I played a very enjoyable adventure where the high point was my character, unarmed but equipped with a salvaged motorcycle helmet, being attacked by a rabid Doberman and repeatedly head butting it into submission...

In many ways it’s a wonderful solution to the scaling problem, easy to understand and avoiding some of the pitfalls of alternative system. On the other hand, it does introduce its own problems. In DC Heroes, for example, the Joker was twice as strong as Batman, while Saturn and Jupiter were the...

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HeroQuest. I wasn’t particularly enamoured with Glorantha when I first encountered it in RQ2, but HeroQuest really seemed to bring out the mythic elements and sense of magic. It’s a pity that it seems to have been left behind now that the RuneQuest juggernaut is back on its tracks.

I mix things depending on the situation. Some creatures get full stats, some just an MR and some might have a separate Con or armour. Mind you, more often than not the opponents were human and monsters comparatively rare in my games. Same idea though.

I was genuinely expecting this to be a comedy post showing a copy of Traveller printed out through a fax machine.

Many, many times over the years. I've run it for kids at summer camps, with various groups of friends, at conventions and online. It's a terrific, reliable and flexible set of rules, fifth edition in particular, probably the game I've personally run more than any other. Combat stalemate, the...

Considering that Gary Chalk did a lot of stuff for Games Workshop as well as the Lone Wolf art there's a direct Warhammer link.

You might be overestimating how many of us are active on the Trollbridge.

You and I clearly have very different memories and opinions of the 30th anniversary / 7th edition / 7.5. For me they were poorly edited and had little of the old T&T magic about them. Ken is a really interesting, creative designer who absolutely needs a strong editor, which is why 5th edition...

You can replace "Star Frontiers" with "TSR" there and it's still a valid question.