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Exactly this. Is this attitude more common with niche hobbies or just a natural reaction to getting older. I'm trying to be self-aware, but I don't recognize this attitude in myself. I enjoy a lot of the new stuff and still have access to and enjoy playing the old stuff that made me fall in love...

Huh? Um, do I even want to know?

No Thank You, Evil! is a GREAT game to introduce younger children to TTRPGs. It is also the only non-gamer-parent-friendly TTRPG I've encountered. I can't really think of anything to complain about other than the game's name. As for 5e, I like the official books to be pushing the envelope of...

I've used the GameTime GPT for ChatGPT to run WFRP 4e games for me. I had it create personas for two other players and had it run through character creation for my self and the two personas. Then I had it run some adventures for me and the two personas. I also test with D&D 5e. It was...

People expect old games to die, They do not really mourn old games. Old games are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old gamers know when an old game dies. (with apologies to Ogden Nash)

You can still find it being run at conventions. Obscure (to younger folks) and has a small fan base, but not dead.

Cryptid gamers. Legends are told about a small, isolated group still playing Phantasm Adventures on a small, isolated Japanese island.

Cyborg Commando will never die. It is so bad it is attractive. Kinda like "bad‑movie nights", some of us like bad-game nights. Add to that the fact that it is a Gygax game, it is a collectible. One of my gaming life regrets is not buying the game when I did a learn to play session for it run...

The older I get, the less I care about novelty. I still like to try new things, but I don't chase novelty. I'm happy to play in a tried and true system and setting. I still like to check out what new things are out there, but that tends to involve reading about them rather than playing them. The...

Interesting that all of these options are about players. My answers might make my players come across as overly adversarial...until you pan away and see the PC obituary sheet on the wall behind my DM chair.

Thanks for sharing. Curious on what your process is. Did you run the 2024 game RAW for a while first, or did you feel you are familiar enough with the game and how you wanted it to run that you were confident that you could create your homebrew by reading the rules and making changes before you...

Man, he looks great for 57. Maybe I need to buzz my hair and start wearing a cap.

There is no good emoji reaction to this news posts. I'm both sad yet happy for him. Gary Gygax was the face of D&D when I got into the hobby in the 80s. Chris Perkins with the new face of D&D for me when I got back into the hobby in 2014 after decades away. I (re)learned to play by watching his...

In the campaign I ran before my current one, which ran for 5 years, we had something similar. Early in the campaign the PC cleared out a ruined castle, fixed it up, and there has other PCs taking care of things back at the castle while they were out on missions. Most of the players stuck to the...

I don't have an issue with boredom and really appreciate getting a chance to play. But since I got back into the hobby I've mostly only played one shots at conventions and find-a-game online. One exception is that I played in a WFRP campaign for a while but life got in the way and I had to stop...

I with you for most of your post, but I'm not sure what this refers to. What are the "three standard buttons"? EDIT - nevermind. Posted before reading the whole thread. Wasn't thinking mice.

I more and more what bespoke VTT design to support specific systems. The dream would be Foundry with very well supported official game systems that truly support the games mechanics, but I'm starting to think that a generic VTT may just not be able to do that for many systems. The WFRP 4e game...

Yeah. I hated Discord for a long time. The first adjustment was when many software and TTRPG support forums were closed down and moved to Discord. I still find it frustratingly difficult to find useful information that I could much more easily find searching an old-style forum. But I've adjusted...

It is a breath of fresh air for me to read this. I have the same attitude towards Kickstarters. When did you start backing Kickstarter projects? I think my first was the first or maybe second year after it went live. I think the old ethos is dying out as it is being used more and more (at least...

There have been other threads in the past that discussing similar issues with finding players or GMs. I think there is more good discussion to be had if you wanted to start a separate thread. I'll just end by saying that I don't buy into the old, out of touch, stick in the mud excuse. There are...