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It depends a bit on your design intent. If you're making something for your own pleasure without much consideration for potential players, customers, then it's probably not really required. It definitely helps to iron out details and bugs. But that's something you can do on your own over time by...

The Mongoose versions have many qualities. Being well edited is definitely one of them. I do not know if I've seen other books with as many typos, unclear language and conflicting informations; despite their update to their books every couple of years.

It depends on the length of the rounds. I remember when I was playing a ton of 4E. For all the love I have for that game, the round got very long as we got higher in levels. I remember many instances of my players cursing and losing their cool when, after waiting for like 20-25 mins for the...

I don't know about the 5e version, but the One Ring 2E leans heavily on the concept of patron to give clear objectives to the party. Personally, I like to start my campaigns in media res. Start right in the action with no context and introduce context after.

I will link Yochai Gal's own community. The Cauldron. The Cauldron I'd stay away from social medias because they tend to split people more than bring them together. And even though I like Discord has an app, Yochai has made his point as to why it's not the best choice of a discourse space.

I'm the forever-GM (which I love). So I tend to not be very democratic. Whatever I have interest in running is what I'm running. I don't ask them, I offer them. "Hey, I'm starting a new Symbaroum campaign. Are you in?" If they're not interested, they're not playing. I'm blessed by having a great...

I fully agree. I'll add that you can also like the resulting dynamics from a set of mechanics, but dislike the mechanics or the design approach used to achieve it. Some mechanics achieve exactly what they're meant to, but are overly complex in their way to achieve it.

Zombies seem like a perfect enemy to have more appear at subsequent rounds if it seems to be too easy. I prefer to underbalance my encounters and have enemies or reinforcements show up. It's quite dramatic too.

I highly recommend The Frozen Temple of Glacier Peak. It's not perfect, but with very little work it turned into some very fun gaming sessions for me.

I didn't have any major issues with Twitter. But conceptually what Bluesky offers is more interesting. From my understanding, it doesn't have one central algorithm that pushes content on its users. All the content being generated by users is one long stream and through customizable features like...

The art leaves me pretty neutral. But I really like the design of the box and packaging.

Lots of good recommendations. I'll have some reading to do during the holidays, see what works well and what doesn't! I'm open to tinkering with that! Any recommendations?

Being straightforward, with a little sweetening is generally the way to go. Something like "Your idea sounds really fun, but I'm not really looking to organise a game with such concepts in it. I'm looking to have a more classic fantasy adventure about [...]".

For me it's a matter of motivation. Having a specie, culture or group that are very warlike and declare war on others for no reason except to be warlike is kinda boring. It can only become interesting through a very clear goal, preferably in opposition to the players. For example, having a...

Hi! I'm going to attempt to use your collective knowledge. I've slowly been coalescing ideas over the path few months for an RPG I'd like to design. I think that I'm mostly interested to making something that supports and encourages a warband scope. It would support the traditional four or...

You just made me order it. Nostalgia is strong.

The OSR is dominated by games derived from D&D B/X. The biggest name is Old-School Essentials which rules are 99% identical to B/X, just repackaged, clarified and reorganized. It's a solid vanilla starting point. As @darjr mentioned, Basic Fantasy is also very popular. The art is a bit all over...

As a fan of history, I like work that shows historical figures in all their complexity, good sides and bad sides. There's so many stories of well-known criminals also being very kind and generous in other contexts, or strong-willed politicians being absolute terrible husbands, etc. I often feel...

Oh, I invest in the stock market too. There's a difference between any stock and global economic powerhouses like those listed. I'm not sure Musk is only interested in causing harm. But his intentions are irrelevant to me. Blackrock and such companies are buying tons of single-family homes as...

So, let me get this right. If one billionnaire, Elon Musk, buys Hasbro that's too much. But Hasbro in its current form, where the top holders are: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, Goldman Sachs and Citadel with dividend payouts of hundreds of millions per year is fine?