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I remember a few of those. Like the author of the article, I absolutely loved Young Riders. I remember watching 12 of them.

Yeah. People definitely need to read the book and maybe even some of the foundational documents to the OSR before diving in from 5E or you're going to have a bad time. The best I can remember is this is touched on in Shadowdark. But I haven't read it in awhile, so I'm not certain.

Ugh. Never mind. It doesn't matter. Everyone will just endlessly, pointlessly argue about everything just like they always do. What a waste.

Sure. I've just found that around here there's a tendency to dogpile anything and everything that's not 5E or a close clone.

Physical books, $60 as an absolute cap. Digital books, $20 as an absolute cap. As much as I care about the people on the publisher's side of things, supporting them, and helping make sure they can keep making the stuff I love...that doesn't magically create more money in my pocket to spend...

Honestly, it's one of the main reasons I do general threads as +. Keeps out the nonsense. In theory at least.

Yep. It’s almost like there really is a difference between roleplayers and gamers. CR are thoroughly roleplayers first. Fairly often some of the players don’t even know the rules of the game they’ve been playing for a decade but they will 1000% commit to their character, the emotions, the...

Whenever we've started at 1st the game usually lasts until around 7-8th level then stops cold. The only times I've seen higher level play in an actual game is when we started higher level for a one-shot or similar. I think that's solidly down to the mechanics of the game. Getting tired of the...

I've had both for awhile and barely started the first. I kept being distracted by the authors need to inject his own family history into the book so set it aside. Does he keep up that annoying habit or does it go by the wayside?

I'm just relaying what I got from interviews. Here's one of many. https://nerdist.com/article/star-trek-alex-kurtzman-explains-starfleet-academy-series-32nd-century/

The stated purpose of setting the show in the bleak distant future is to provide a glimmer of hope in dark times. To explicitly make the case for the Federation and Starfleet ideals to people. Star Trek has always been political and this show is going to continue that tradition.

Wow. Your understanding of history is hilariously bad.

That’s not true. Improv comedy groups manage it all the time. Lots of writers jump in without a plan. Lots of RPG groups manage to get a cohesive story without a script.

That. Well. I. Can’t. Wait.

I honestly can’t imagine Jester as a warlock. So much of her character is wrapped up in the “WTF do you mean I’m the cleric?” and her almost complete lack of healing.

Apparently this will be announced at GenCon. No details beyond that. Can't wait to get the details. ETA: Sword World RPG - Coming Soon!

They can also just make other people into Q, like Q did with Riker. It's kinda wild how people are treating this. The Q are trickster gods who can do literally anything. Yet somehow the notion of them lying and the idea that they can do something wildly powerful are both rejected. Besides...

Yeah, that was my experience as well. I say that as someone who absolutely loves 4E. The combat was boring because it was almost always the same grind. A slightly fresh coat of paint on the bag of hit points doesn't make combat interesting. The referee could spice things up with terrain, traps...

For me, the two biggest problems of modern D&D and D&D-like games that emulate them is that they are so focused on combat and that combat is so mind-numbingly boring to play through in games like D&D 4E, 5E, and from what I’ve seen of 3X and the Pathfinder line. So if you define D&D as the...

I wouldn’t go that far, but you’re not entirely wrong either. The cast is great at what they do. For me a large part of the problem is Matt forcing the players back on the rails and trying to push some kind of forced story. If he’d just stop doing that and let them run wild they’d have endless...