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I grew up in Bowmanville. :) Nothing too big or exciting there that might be part of an RPG, except maybe the St Mary's cement company with it's huge vertical furnace (looking all the like a rocket launch gantry) along with its equally huge (though in depth) blasting pit for limestone, as well...

Setting something in the neighbouring town from my own hometown? With a section on the OC? Consider my interest piqued! :) (And it's also close to not just one but two nuke plants... )

Putting aside Catalyst's past Kickstarter performance, I downloaded the quickstart rules and gave them a read through. Overall, colour me not that impressed. The system to me seems at the same time bland, inelegant, and sometimes convoluted all for not much benefit. Plus it has no narrative...

Oh, I'll have to dive into this when I get home. Looks like they ended up going the Lions-only route. And different books for either the classic series or the remake, huh...

I have something like 25 linear feet of RPG books on my shelves at home, and I can't see myself parting with any of it anytime soon. At the same time, I've hardly added anything to those shelves in over a decade. Nearly everything I get nowadays is in PDF format. Harder to curl up on the...

As someone who works in a creative industry, I get the fraughtness and potentials for generative AI. Especially given it's speed -- it took ages for refrigerators to displace ice cutters, or photography to supplant many portrait painters, while gen AI is both developing rapidly and instantly...

This is something that has fascinated/amused me about this tempest in a teapot from the mild disclaimer noted at the front of this huge celebratory book of reprints. When WB released their Loony Tunes with their disclaimer prefix, I saw a lot of lauding and applauding. "Yes, let's not burry...

Great news! They didn't, and it wasn't an attack (smug or otherwise) on anyone. We can put those concerns to rest now. Fortunate too, because then I'd have to question WotC's attack strategy around this destroying Gygaxian legacy thing. Because putting out a 576 page book (Tome? At what page...

Sigh. Beyond the eyeroll-y ness of how just factually inaccurate his false outrage is (0.18% of the book that lavishly reproduces the original works of Gygax et al gently mentions that some of it may be discriminatory), it's also late. Passé. This book (and the brouhaha that happened on...

I must be too much of that time/era... none really jump out as being specific, just expected... :D

And the fact that in the span of 3 posts they call it both ONG publishing and ONB publishing I'd say doubly confirms it. Competence, it is not them.

Our group has lots of experience with classless systems, so not necessary for us in the least. :) Yes, they are very helpful to illustrate the type/style of game this is and the activities the PCs are expected to be pursuing and how. And thus this provides another layer of world building...

Yay for giant elk butt!

I've always been partial to the version of Whisky in the Jar by the rock & reel band Tempest... sadly (surprisingly!) they don't seem to have it on YT for easy linking.

"Screaming is a free action."

Having your pants drop in battle is super embarrassing... and he wasn't going to let that happen again! (Nevermind that none of said belts are actually on his pants... :P)

Huh, it's super interesting to me to see so many "yes" replies. I rarely feel bored as a player, I think the only times I've felt bored are the instances at an unfocussed table with an unfocussed/ill-defined campaign (leading to lots of non-action from the players and hence the characters)...

.... ok, now I want to play a pixie monk as my next character. :)

That's a neat style. Gave it a whirl to see what it is like in Dall-E 3, using nearly the same prompt (only change was to remove 'create' from the start): More variation in the style than I would have anticipated, but 3 and 4 are pretty close to the same.