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If it’s Chapter 7. Chapter 11 is reorganization to deal with unpayable debt. Snarf will correct me if I remember it backwards. My point is bankruptcy is not necessarily dissolution.

Adding to anecdotes and vibes … from 4 groups I’m involved with - DM of the first 3. 1) 5 players in 3.5e on email, 1 is a game producer (including console RPG credits). 3 have played 5e or BG3, 2 have even mentioned 5e24 exists, 0 interested in it. 2) 5 players in 3.5e on email, 1 has done a...

As for revisionist Westerns, I think of it more as the “serious” Westerns revival produced after Spaghetti Westerns and things like Dirty Harry displaced traditional Westerns. Imho the genre mostly ended circa 1978, but movies in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s revived it. In terms of moral...

“The Oregon Trail” is one of the oldest computer games - first version in 1971. It was the first thing I did on a computer - an Apple ][ b in elementary school, probably around 1981. It’s good stuff in its own way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)

Not a lawyer … but if it’s an open-and-shut case that the viability of the business depends on, I wonder why an attorney working on contingency or a bank offering a line of credit are not options? My guess is “it was on consignment” is not legally precisely true. I assume the bankruptcy court...

Maybe ask at a local FLGS or comic book shop? Or put up an invite there and be the DM?

Is DM now District Manager? How large is the exclusive area for each franchise? Can I buy the franchise for Renton, WA and make WotC employees pay-me-to-play? What percentage of DM fees do I have to profit share with WotC? Do I need to use WotC’s supply chain, or can I source my own dice and...

Yeah. But will there be another Red Dead AAA game and some blockbuster and award winning Westerners? You betcha partner! Yellowstone shows the genre isn’t worn out just yet. (Edit: “The Revenant” was awesome too, fairly recently. And “First Cow”, an A24 indie film about the Oregon Territory...

Right, but I was talking about the subgenre of Revisionist Westerns that was peaking around 1985-1995. Silverado was not a revisionist Western, but more traditional. All the things you annd I mentioned were part of mini-revival for Westerns, but the Oscar Best Picture revisionist Westerns —...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is another bit of recent popular culture fitting Boot Hill. IIRC correctly it takes place around 1899.

1883, the Yellowstone prequel, was a very good Western, and right in the Boot Hill time period. However, I’ve heard it wasn’t very popular, particularly with younger audiences who don’t “get” Westerns - aren’t familiar with the genre and find the past to be cringe and hard to understand. To...

Stick to the Core Rules; ignore the splatbooks. This may already be accomplished by using Trailblazer.

1st edition and 3rd edition Boot Hill are quite different games, from different era (1975 and 1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Hill_(role-playing_game) Boot Hill 3e is a “real” RPG, with non-combat elements like characters having jobs and related abilities and incomes. 1990 was in...

Boot Hill is a good game. I ran games with the original booklet and a campaign with 3rd Edition. There were about 5 modules in total, but it’s easy enough to create scenarios or wing it.

Seems like it would belong over the end credits, like “Ironman” IIRC was used over the end credits for the first Ironman movie.

Published in 1985, so after the movie “An American Werewolf in London” (1981) and Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” (1978), yet I don’t recall it have a single werewolf or visit to Chinatown for beef chow mein. #missedopportunties

What term for cops was it? The bill, the nick, coppers, peelers, Bobbie’s? Lots and lots of terms, not even including slang from subcultures like travellers.

I remember it featured horse-drawn wagons delivering beer. That isn’t something I saw when I lived in England in 1989-1990, but I can absolutely believe it in the 1950’s and possibly as late as the early 1970’s for a very special situation (maybe an old one-man operation brewer). (My...

In campaigns I DM, the vast majority of the population are not adventurers. They are mostly 1st level Commoners, Experts, or Warriors, with no magical or psionic powers. (3x rules - in AD&D that was called 0 level.) For that reason, the world has many of the same problems as the real world...

It was in D&D Beyond, so I took it for 5e 2024 my PC. Knowing my DM, the chances of it coming up/meeting a deaf NPC are slim. If it does, he and everyone else will be surprised I have it. (He read the characters but is unlikely to think that’s important.)