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Once again, I wasn't buying anything from either GG or JG anyway, but this is a terrible look for GG and just keeps getting worse. My influence on either is precisely nil, but if GG wants my unsolicited and rather obvious advice, give it up already. JG is pure poison, and just breathing the...

Never really got the impression that early TSR-era game design prioritized things like simplicity and playability when it came to monsters, and amateurs sure couldn't be counted on to do any better. :)

It's covered in the writeup. They start with HD equal to the number appearing-1 (so you'll never meet just one, NA is 3-6) and have this cute trick: AC starts at 4, movement at 12. So you get the following possibilities: 3 appearing, each with 2HD and 2d8 hit points. Let's say for...

Yes, but people who've read Brian Stableford's Star Pilot Grainger/Hooded Swan series will recognize the "Queen" as the Hooded Swan herself, the "hero ship" of the series. That came first, and its repeat appearances as cover artwork explains why there were so many images to use in the later TTA...

Really? Do tell. And what did you think vested interest was?

Bit surely they've got a vested interest in selling every bit of merch they possibly can? Why skip on anything that might make a dime? It's all about the merchandising! Critical Role, The T-Shirt! Critical Role, The Coloring Book! Critical Role, The Lunchbox! Critical Role, The Breakfast...

You just answered your own question. If we start talking up books written with systems in mind this thread's going to be flooded with them in short order.

The point of a boxed set to me is to include stuff that wouldn't go in a book well. So, big folding map(s), player handouts, smaller maps or deck plans on cardboard, preferably with some art showing the location or ship, that sort of stuff. Maybe a gimmick deck of cards of teh system needs it...

Heh. Mix of "nouveau riche" and Beverly Hillbillies there. Everybody rooks the hicks. Come to think of it, we had a lot of fun with letters of marque in one of our old nautical games. I think at one point we we authorized to attack Country X shipping by three different factions - two if...

I wasn't talking about just using the concept for BoL, where it isn't really needed owing to the way it handles cash. Investing in what amounts to a plot hook for a future adventure works for lots of games, from a hot tip on a crime in a Prohibition era gangster game to a title for a...

That's pretty reasonable. Also like the way it tacitly encourages experienced adventurers who've managed to establish themselves as VIPs in a society to live kind of a double life. Have to kind of sneak into town when returning from your adventures so people don't see you looking like a bunch...

It's a too heavy-handed for me, but the "buy a map or a mystery mansion" bit's quite clever. I could see a softer version where deliberately spending your hard-earned loot on some ludicrous pie-in-the-sky thing like that directly awarded XP or some other perk or metacurrency. Very much fits...

Okay, I'm done with this. :)

Personal experience says yes. Yes it does, Also shogi, although you need an audience where at least one person knows the rules for it to work. Unsurprisingly, ERB's Chessmen of Mars is excellent source material, and jetan (the Barsoomian chess equivalent) is actually playable, albeit not a...

Interesting. The JG KS certainly seems to be living down those expectations, and GG paying off those backers doesn't change that a bit. It should be interesting to see how the unique situation with the GG project drives backers through what's effectively FOMO marketing. The cynic in me also...

That does tend to be a failing of his, but in that particular case it felt like he'd said what he most needed to say and wanted to move on rather than have to deal with Rob, who'd been showing signs of bitterness about having his character catch fire under another (much better) creator. There's...

A Superman expy list that fails to include Supreme during Moore's run on the book is sadly lacking to me. Best Silver Age Superman homage ever written. You can leave Liefeld's lousy version off all you like, though. :)

I don't know, it was a house rule in several groups I played with in the 70s and 80s. Height of the Satanic Panic and I had a GM who only allowed Christian clerics (albeit ones with no central church, God hand-picked them Himself) and encouraged them to proselytize with bonus XP and perks for...

Sentinel Comics: Punched giant robot into space.

Okay, that was a waste of typing. Never mind. Staffan, FWIW, that's how I remember the response to the news about Barker as well, and I followed it a lot more closely than the GG/JG situation here because I actually cared about Tekumel as a setting and needed to decide if I could somehow kill...