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Games that attempt to strip out bits and pieces of other games and slap them together in a sort of Frankenstein approach rarely work well. Add on top of it, that the charts are completely up to the GM to interpret and this indicates to me that no thought or rigor has been put into the ruleset...

I’m sorry but this sounds like a terrible way to design a game system.

As Payn and Cadence mentioned, check out the community rules - they are the hard and fast guidelines for conduct. As far as alternate systems, I’ve played Shadowdark, Shadow of the Weird Wizard, various PBTA games, Mothership, Forbidden Lands, Lancer, and DCC in the past two years. This was...

Which is an aspect that if one only watched the movie and never read the book, they would probably never know. King’s writing is very hopeful, I find.

Yeah, I moved away from brutal descriptions to simpler ones that just say the orc falls to the ground dead. The buckets of blood approach has its limits both in terms of goriness but also just plain lack of effectiveness due to overuse. Letting a villain give one last line before expiring can be...

Kind of related to this: I love the Advantage/Disadvantage system most of the time, but as the number of supplements come out that expand class options, feats, and now weapon properties, I find that it becomes almost homogeneous. You can only give out advantage/disadvantage so many times before...

Yeah, I’ve heard horror stories about bamboo. That stuff spreads like crazy. We got rid of a Tree of Heaven on our side of the yard when the damn Spotted Lanternflies start becoming a problem and finding out they love those trees. Our neighbor is oblivious though.

I don’t disagree. I think whatever advantages HOA’s may bring are outweighed by the disadvantages, and I don’t know that I agree with the argument that they help maintain home value. At least locally for the past 20 years, home values have increased at a rate that suggests people will buy homes...

Oh what a horrible decision! Our development had Bradford Pears planted when it was first built because they were cheap and grew quickly. 30 years later, there are few of them remaining. All the rest have been taken down by storms over the years, and replaced with better trees by owners.

Chaotic antiheroes befriend a “ghost”.

I can argue the opposite and say that you’re not comprehending the last 25 years. 🤷‍♂️

In the United States at least, homes are very much about maintaining the amount of money one has, as well as enjoyment and security. That’s the point of home equity. Whether an HOA is necessary to do that is something that I question.

Name “retroclone” aside, I’d prefer something that captures the spirit of the game, otherwise I’d just play the original game or one of the existing clones like OSRIC that’s been out for years.

It’s simple. The player who is not enjoying the game should gracefully leave and come back when the table is playing something more in line with their interests.

The way prices have escalated in the past several years, and the number of houses I’ve seen simply tore down or renovated, I wonder how much those HOA rules really matter towards preserving home value anymore, if they really ever have.

Silly tech people never think of just pulling the plug! I think it was Under Siege 2, the bad guy is holding a laptop and says he’s just started a countdown to fire some a satellite weapon, and Seagal says “Are you telling me I can’t stop that countdown?” Bad guy says, yes the computer is...

So I’m watching Along Came A Spider from 2001 in which a web camera connected to “cyberspace”, as the computer expert calls it, is able to zoom in from their CRT monitor on a mirror and enhance the label on a medicine vial to read the name and address of who it was prescribed to. 😂

Sounds delicious! Did you infuse the Campari yourself or was this something you ordered out?

I think the problem is that the type of person who tends to want to sit on HOA boards is usually a knob.

In fairness, just about everything I’ve read from King is about the lead up to something horrific or its aftereffects on people.