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This sounds utterly bonkers. I can't wait to see it. Safely. From a great distance. Streaming, hopefully.

That’s another great one. So easy to hack into just about anything you’d want.

I think the RPG community’s version of touch grass should be throw dice. Meaning get off the internet and go play something.

Eat the Reich, Pirate Borg, WEG Star Wars, or something Free Kriegsspiel Renaissance. Eat the Reich for good clean horror-comedy fun. Vampires chewing their way through a bunch of Nazis is a fantastic way to spend an evening. Pirate Borg for some wild OSR adventures and goofy accents. Grab one...

Right? It just strikes me as a particular refinement of the broader OSR. A few unique bits, sure, like most OSR games, but also not wildly different or unique. Not saying it’s bad. But looking at pure text I don’t know that I could pick Shadowdark out of a dozen other, similar OSR-style games.

Eh. At least Lin's stuff has something resembling pacing and a plot. To me that's the only real mark of a good writer. Writing the most beautiful sentences known to humanity is irrelevant if the story isn't engaging enough on its own to keep the reader awake.

Lefties of the world, unite. My dad had his left hand tied down at school. His mom went in and put a stop to that. I was lucky in that times had changed and all I got was dirty looks and sore hands from right-handed scissors and spiral-bound notebooks. I never did the hook thing. I just let the...

Brennan Lee Mulligan has some interesting takes on Hobbits in the Dimension 20 Fantasy High series. That would be a fun spin off, too.

Isn't your recent kick telling people to read the book? Must be embarrassing that your complaint is just spelled out in black and white in the book, then.

The Patchwork Zombie has an AoE. I used that monster in my playtest. It was effective once or twice. Didn’t get to use it a third time because he died. The AoEs will help. But the HP and stress is where they’re hurting the most. Phases or doubling HP and stress are the easy fixes.

You could just as easily double the HP and stress then increase their relentless feature by 1-2.

Some conversations of late. Substitute in empathy and you're set.

Sylvester McCoy is definitely in my top five. His era gets a lot of flack, some of it justified most of it not, but I absolutely love his wildly over-the-top children's show host style. I'm eternally disappointed that they dropped the malapropisms, though I'm grateful they kept the goofy...

Basically, yes. One GM move is one free action for a monster. Solos get to make multiple actions if the GM spends fear. To match the PC's action economy, the PCs would need to roll with fear or fail exactly 50% of the time. So if you're going into a so-called solo fight with capped fear, it'll...

Honestly it all makes me want a 4E style breakdown of the monster math that much more or a Blog of Holding business card post for Daggerheart. It would be so much easier to just have the "this one monster = one PC" set up and have the other monsters be variations on that.

It's a bit weird. For the fight to be a challenge to a group, you need to use most of if not the whole budget. Even then, the game favors the PCs. You will really feel it if you're shaving more than 1-2 points off the total. I have found that using the +2 damage bonus for 2 battle points thing...

The great thing about Doctor Who is it’s done just about everything over the decades. Just about anyone can find something to like. And just about any era has fans. But that glum crankiness just isn’t for me. The only versions I like less are William Hartnell and Colin Baker’s version on TV. I...

Honestly? Keep your mouth shut and be thankful someone’s willing to run games for you.

To each their own. I absolutely love that about Alien. Maybe look at Mothership. It does basically the same stories but with a wider scope and handles that particular aspect of play “better” from your perspective.

Yep. The summer crossover problem combined with the summer blockbuster problem. Throw in a dash of the superhero escalation problem…and here we are. I liked the first two Ant-Man movies because they were smaller scale (ha) and not world-ending threats. I liked the first two GotG movies because...