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When I bring a new system to my players (which happens quite a few times a year), they know by now that it means a short 2-4 sessions campaign. Just to get a taste of it. And they always have the option to say "We want more, let's keep going!" Over time, I've grown to appreciate them for their...

I have no idea what the quality was years ago, I'm a recent purchaser of their products. I wouldn't call the products bad. I think the books (physically) are entirely serviceable. But they absolutely do not compare to the quality of production of Free League's books. As for the content, I...

I'm sorry, but I disagree. Mongoose products are plagued by typo, bad editing, contradictions. As for the physical production, Free League is years ahead of anything Mongoose does quality wise. The quality of the paper, the layout, the editing, the art direction, the quality of the material, the...

I actually like George RR Martin. Many of his names feels real and believable. There's often a consistency to me as they follow some loose patterns. It's true that in certain parts (namely the Targaryen family and the kings) the same name comes up often, just like they do in most real royal...

Kal-Arath by Castle Grief seems really popular right now. I bought the PDFs and read them but haven't got to playing it yet.

I have a few issues about the design of their pages, which I hope they'll fix. But overall I like the platform. I also believe they take a smaller cut of the funds raised. I'm happy to see some competition, hopefully it'll lead to improvements.

I feel it might be likely that this number might diminish. Whatever your political position is, I think we can all agree that there's a lot of uncertainty in the hair and international trade is going to be affected. This is going to increase prices, might lead to inflation in certain countries...

I'm a bit confused. Is this like a philosophical question? Or a practical one? I'm just there's a matter of semantics here that will clear your question. On philosophical note, my mind is also very active at all time of the day. It's natural mode is to hop from idea to question forever. But...

I gathered a group to start a new campaign. The initial pitch was a early 11th century England historical campaign using Burning Wheel. I dove back into some of my notes on that period and I my interest slowly shifted towards an earlier period. Either in the first decades of the arrival of the...

I enjoyed reading the first volume. It has interesting ideas and I liked the setting. But it's getting more and more difficult for me to justify such thick books. There's just so much rules and content that it would realistically take months to get a grasp of it.

What he says aside, I love interviewee that go on unending rants; and interviewers that lay them go on. Having just finished the video, I chuckled a few times as I couldn't recall the question a few minutes earlier. Ben: "It seems like in 2014 [...] bla bla bla [...] perception has changed?"...

Around 15:00, Ben brings up something interesting that I thought about often. For context, I started with 3E, played a ton of 4E, life forced me to focus on other things and I got back with 5E in 2016 before splitting into the OSR and indie RPGs around 2020. Around 2014, I was in the middle of...

Every time a game doesn't support higher levels, I'm disappointed it doesn't. Every time I play one of these games, we stop playing before these levels. I think it's something I just like having in case of. But I definitely need to stop letting it affect my reading of games.

I do agree that depending on what you're trying to seek, whatever hypothesis you have, different formats of playtests yield better or worse results. But every form of feedback can be useful. It becomes of challenge of data handling more than anything. You can also get incredibly valuable...

It depends a bit on your design intent. If you're making something for your own pleasure without much consideration for potential players, customers, then it's probably not really required. It definitely helps to iron out details and bugs. But that's something you can do on your own over time by...

The Mongoose versions have many qualities. Being well edited is definitely one of them. I do not know if I've seen other books with as many typos, unclear language and conflicting informations; despite their update to their books every couple of years.

It depends on the length of the rounds. I remember when I was playing a ton of 4E. For all the love I have for that game, the round got very long as we got higher in levels. I remember many instances of my players cursing and losing their cool when, after waiting for like 20-25 mins for the...

I don't know about the 5e version, but the One Ring 2E leans heavily on the concept of patron to give clear objectives to the party. Personally, I like to start my campaigns in media res. Start right in the action with no context and introduce context after.

I will link Yochai Gal's own community. The Cauldron. The Cauldron I'd stay away from social medias because they tend to split people more than bring them together. And even though I like Discord has an app, Yochai has made his point as to why it's not the best choice of a discourse space.

I'm the forever-GM (which I love). So I tend to not be very democratic. Whatever I have interest in running is what I'm running. I don't ask them, I offer them. "Hey, I'm starting a new Symbaroum campaign. Are you in?" If they're not interested, they're not playing. I'm blessed by having a great...