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I like Taco Bell. Do they make the best tacos and burritos? No. Not even close. But if I need a quick bite to eat I'm more than happy to make a run for the border. Maybe get a Mexican Pizza if I'm feeling frisky. I also like Texas Roadhouse. For the price point, I think their steaks are...

To be fair, it might not be the OP's fault as a GM. Over the course of my years, I've run into many players who seem to suffer from post-traumatic GM syndrome. Sometimes this can manifests in quirky behavior, like the player in my Deadlands game who made it a point to get my attention and tell...

I've got some reservations about donating to a for-profit enterprise. When Palladium found itself in dire straits because an employee embezzled possibly more than $1,000,000, the "Crisis of Treachery"™® back in 2006, Kevin Siembieda didn't ask for donations, he asked fans to purchase a limited...

Oh, man. I don't know about you, but I'd like to go at least one day without hearing about Captain America's rear end or his junk. Just one day!!

This looks amazingly bad. Hopefully it'll be so bad it's good.

While I don't really view D&D as a western, mainly because it shares so few of the tropes, I do agree it shares a debt. As the Old West isn't really the same as the historical west, D&D is more like a Renaissance Faire which isn't anything like either the medieval or renaissance period. In the...

My player's characters are level 8 now, so they've got more gold than they really need. My plan was to test out the rules for bastions, so I discussed it with my players a few sessions ago and it turns out they have no desire to pursue that avenue. They just don't see any meaningful benefit to...

Usually a revisionist western is one that subverts the traditional conventions found in westerns such as the inclusion of morally ambiguous "heroes," a little less myth and a little more realism, and by not providing a clear line between the black hats and the white hats. I honestly find it...

I typically turn to Savage Worlds whenever I'm running a game for which there's either no RPG for, I don't own the specific RPG, or when I think my players will prefer it to a different set of rules. It's pretty easy to adapt many RPGs to Savage Worlds, I know it well enough that I can come up...

A lot of people don't think about how things would actually encumber them in the real world. On one hand, sure, it's make believe, so it's not completely unreasonable for someone not to care about that kind of thing. In one of my Deadlands games, a PC asked if he could attach chains to his...

We had a player, I'll call him Bob, find out he had a brain tumor in the summer of 2024. After getting things more thoroughly looked at, he opted out of treatment and just accepted he was facing the end of his life. He ended up quitting his job and moving out of state to live out his final...

I can't wait for the inevitable spinoffs. The Shire: Criminal Intent The Shire: Special Victims Unit The Shire: Organized Crime And a spell one off, The Shire: Exiled.

Westerns are a part of the rich tapestry that is American mythology. I imagine we'll still see westerns being produced in some form or another for quite awhile. Nobody knew that better than Boys Don't Cry. It doesn't get more American than a new wave British band singing about cowboys.

And that's fine, but it still can't be all things for all people. No game can. Not even GURPS. Can you make rules allowing for a Necromancer PC with an army of undead? Of course. Would it be fun to play? ::shakes Magic 8 Ball:: Ask again later. Stupid Magic 8 Ball. Anyone designing...

Well, uh, your players are searching for a girl who was taken against her will by a creature that is commonly used as a metaphor for sexual assault. i.e. You've got just as much subtext in your premise as The Searchers did in 1956. Depending on how long you want the campaign to take, you...

I am once again reminded that D&D cannot be all things to all people.

Yeah, not only is most of the crew are D-E-A-D, David's story is done. Bringing any of them back would just cheapen the story.

I do like horror, and after playing Alien a few times I can tell you nobody in my group thought it was fun. We thought it was a flaw.

It ends up freezing the game. i.e. It's not fun.

This is a serious flaw with Free League's Alien and their Stress mechanic. There's a point where a character fails a Stress test, they gain Stress, and the result is every other PC must make a Stress roll, which they fail, gaining Stress, and requiring PCs to make another Stress check. I don't...