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My first thought was, "Stupid, Cupid! Stop pickin' on me."

From where I'm sitting, RPG companies often have much closer relationships to their customers than larger companies do. I've interacted with Steve Jackson (of Steve Jackson Games), Seth Skorkowsky, and of course the greatest luminary in the RPG sphere in the 21st century, Morrus. And this is...

"Skipper Dan" is one of the most realistically depressing songs I've ever heard. In a nutshell, the narrator is a dude who started out as a young man with excellent acting skills who ends up with a mediocre career playing the character Skipper Dan on a jungle cruise ride at an amusement park...

I voted a reluctant no. The idea is sound, but the execution is lacking. Combat in D&D takes too long as it is and adding yet another thing for people to track is a pain in the rear. I'm not going to house rule them into oblivion, but I'm not going to like it either.

When I read that it was a "pirate" game in the OP I thought to myself that John Wick better not see that. He will most emphatically tell anyone who will listen that it's not a pirate game. He's right of course.

If you can afford to live in anything other than the fanciest of cardboard boxes, it means you're charging too much for your gaming products! (You're going after a different market than A&D, so I think you're safe.) AD&D 2nd edition Player's Handbook - $20 in 1989 which is the equivalent to...

Last summer I ran a one shot and a 72 year old woman joined the game along with her 68 year old husband. I'm certainly not going to knock grandmas. I just remember as a youth my parents/grandparents doing their best to get me what I asked for but running into some difficulty because they...

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Jaron is specialized or technical language used by a particular group. Aside from roleplaying situations, how often do you tell someone to roll 12d8 and add the sum?

This absolutely cracked me up. I don't think I've heard anyone refer to a horror game as liminal, so I'm not hitting the right places apparently, but if I ever see it your definition is the first that will spring to mind.

Just this last weekend I had to roll 12d8 to get the damage for a dragon's breath weapon. I'm not sure many dice one needs to be a dice queen. Clearly I don't have enough dice for my own personal needs. Truthfully, I haven't heard any of the terms you listed. Like ever. The world is just...

Good luck. I expect any effort to eliminate jargon be about as effective as preventing euphemism treadmills or semantic change. At some point you're just fighting language itself.

When I still cared about academia, when I would listen to someone speaking about philosophy they would typically define what they meant when using a term. But then even when people here define what they mean when using a particular word, there's always pushback from someone else who says they...

This one used to rankle men whenever I'd hear something referred to as problematic without being told what exactly the problematic part was. It's as if I was supposed to magically know.

Sometimes on Reddit I see people post about a TTRPG in a thread that's about CRPG and vice versa. When it comes to Cyberpunk, since the release of the video game Cyberpunk 2077, in some threads there can be confusion over which version of the game is being discussed. Johnny's version of the...

There's a Black Dragon Inn in Greyhawk!

It wouldn't have occurred to me to make a sword out of a horn! Nice idea.

My wife insisted I pick up and paint the WizKids Marid mini. She doesn't play D&D and doesn't know what a Marid is. She just thought it looked cool.

In my last session, the player characters defeated an adult black dragon and it was a lot of fun. At the end of our session, I told them I'd figure out something fun to do with the corpse. And by fun, I mean let's make some magic items. So think of what parts of the dragon you might use to...