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I fully agree. I'll add that you can also like the resulting dynamics from a set of mechanics, but dislike the mechanics or the design approach used to achieve it. Some mechanics achieve exactly what they're meant to, but are overly complex in their way to achieve it.

Zombies seem like a perfect enemy to have more appear at subsequent rounds if it seems to be too easy. I prefer to underbalance my encounters and have enemies or reinforcements show up. It's quite dramatic too.

I highly recommend The Frozen Temple of Glacier Peak. It's not perfect, but with very little work it turned into some very fun gaming sessions for me.

I didn't have any major issues with Twitter. But conceptually what Bluesky offers is more interesting. From my understanding, it doesn't have one central algorithm that pushes content on its users. All the content being generated by users is one long stream and through customizable features like...

The art leaves me pretty neutral. But I really like the design of the box and packaging.

Lots of good recommendations. I'll have some reading to do during the holidays, see what works well and what doesn't! I'm open to tinkering with that! Any recommendations?

Being straightforward, with a little sweetening is generally the way to go. Something like "Your idea sounds really fun, but I'm not really looking to organise a game with such concepts in it. I'm looking to have a more classic fantasy adventure about [...]".

For me it's a matter of motivation. Having a specie, culture or group that are very warlike and declare war on others for no reason except to be warlike is kinda boring. It can only become interesting through a very clear goal, preferably in opposition to the players. For example, having a...

Hi! I'm going to attempt to use your collective knowledge. I've slowly been coalescing ideas over the path few months for an RPG I'd like to design. I think that I'm mostly interested to making something that supports and encourages a warband scope. It would support the traditional four or...

You just made me order it. Nostalgia is strong.

The OSR is dominated by games derived from D&D B/X. The biggest name is Old-School Essentials which rules are 99% identical to B/X, just repackaged, clarified and reorganized. It's a solid vanilla starting point. As @darjr mentioned, Basic Fantasy is also very popular. The art is a bit all over...

As a fan of history, I like work that shows historical figures in all their complexity, good sides and bad sides. There's so many stories of well-known criminals also being very kind and generous in other contexts, or strong-willed politicians being absolute terrible husbands, etc. I often feel...

Oh, I invest in the stock market too. There's a difference between any stock and global economic powerhouses like those listed. I'm not sure Musk is only interested in causing harm. But his intentions are irrelevant to me. Blackrock and such companies are buying tons of single-family homes as...

So, let me get this right. If one billionnaire, Elon Musk, buys Hasbro that's too much. But Hasbro in its current form, where the top holders are: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, Goldman Sachs and Citadel with dividend payouts of hundreds of millions per year is fine?

I echo something that Colville said in the video. For me, as soon as you play or DM a few different tables with different people, it becomes incredibly obvious that most people play the game very differently. As he says, some universals have been mostly settled. I've never DMed for players that...

Cairn first edition and the newly released Cairn 2nd.

I use AI to generate ideas, look for words and generate some descriptions. For example, I might ask: "Write to me three weird concepts for dungeons found deep in the mountains." I might run the prompt a few time and find and interesting idea or two from which I work. "Give me three visible...

Most games are not profitable. Profitability has actually been difficult to hit. AAA games are costing more and more and reaching thresholds where you need a huge success to be profitable. Indie games is even worse. Of course there's a few dozen games every year that sell a good amount of copies...

If it's Baldur's Gate 4, it will need to be much smaller in scope or ambition to be good. There are very few studios that have the track records, experience and toolset of Larian. You can't just magically get some people together and start a new studio, or take another studio and just pivot them...

Is the first edition also the first of two? Or is the second edition drastically different and only it will warrant a second volume?