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Several reasons: FOMO. Overspending on Kickstarter during COVID. One of my friends was really getting into the system, so I wanted to go on the journey with him. The group of people I was playing with when I started buying were better at learning rules and more tactical than my current...

Oh no. They weren't doing any of the more "advanced" combat stuff. We were lucky to be able to count raises, look at AP, and all that. I did give each of them a players book to look over two weeks ago. I don't think anyone did that because they didn't even have the basics down.

Not often. And when they did, it still wasn't enough to do more than Shake an enemy. I gave them a pretty good allotment of Bennies as well. Just bad rolling coupled with really high Toughness.

It was mostly all ranged combat. The enemies had 9 Toughness. The heroes had weapons with no AP. So a 2d6 had to get a 9 to Shake them, 13 to Wound them. Yeah, it's looking like I'll probably retire the entire system after running a few sessions. It's a shame because I bought into it pretty...

Oh, they're playing the pre-generated characters that came in the boxed set. Everything they should need is printed on the card. The "needing to look up stuff in multiple books across several chapters" were the enemy stats I was running for the encounter. Like, I need to look up the rules for...

I attempted to run a session of Savage Worlds on Sunday (Deadlands: Lost Colony, if you're curious). It wasn't my first time with the system, but my god it was like trying to pick fly poop out of a pepper shaker while wearing boxing gloves. The first combat was terribly slow. People were...

Nope, but apparently the new ones are being required for official WotC events. So much for "compatibility" and "it's not a new edition." Essentially, they're giving folks 4 months to replace their books or be kicked out of the official events. Yes. I know I can still use the PHB I bought in...

It's been years since I ran it, but IIRC, the adventure hook to track down the missing dwarf traders was completely dropped. I'd make it pay off or create a new hook - it's the weakest part of the adventure. The first adventure I think is a tower devoted to the air cult. It never made sense to...

I tried to tell ya 2024 was a "bait and switch" new edition. I'll keep my "expired" books, thanks.

Yep. Yep. And yep. I haven't been able to look at my playtest copies for more than a few minutes either. I'm burned out on the Fantasy TTRPG du jour I've enacted on myself. I wish 5e was better designed. I wish PF2 was less designed. I wish other systems had more products, better instructional...

I mean, one could say the same thing about Pathfinder 1e. I'd argue that every bit of rules design Paizo did add was terrible. I might go so far to say it's still the case. But at least Paizo 2e is terrible in its own way instead of carbon copying D&D. Edit: please replace "terrible" with "not...

I'm having fun with it. Two characters so far. I'm coming in without much experience. I hadn't actually made characters in Level Up, just using it to augment my 5e GMing. I hope the Gateway can be an entry point into switching my players to Level Up.

I had forgotten about this. I think I got it when I backed the KS originally.

Would you say that they discourage Cthulhu-type games with Savage Worlds? Are they encouraging to instead play Call of Cthulhu?

I didn't get the age of your nephew, but maybe some of those lore books and novels for young readers?

I think they represent the "majority" of the generations of Millennials and younger who like to be loud on the Internet. I doubt that the Gen Xers will be turned on to D&D, which they've known about since the 1970s (and that's my demographic, BTW). Like, my 75 year old mom isn't going to start...

I mean, he can change the way gaming is perceived in culture. He can make it so unpopular and full of such toxicity that growth becomes nil - that entire populations of fans feel unwelcome. When many players turned from D&D 4e to Pathfinder, the hobby was different. Today, most players seem to...

The group voted on Savage Worlds. We played it around a year ago, but when we were discussing our options, Players B and C said "we really liked that game we played a year ago - if only they used the same rules but the setting was different." "Well, guys, it just so happens, that's sort of what...

My copy of Castle Zagyg signed by Gary Gygax. Edit: For "name brand" product, it's the 2e AD&D player handbook, original printing. Not the 2nd version with the "bad art".

I'll try to give a few pointers, but please keep in mind that I know almost nothing about Greyhawk and since we didn't have spellcasters in the party, I'm not an expert with the magic system in Dragonbane. First, I'd start with the obvious game terms, making sure you translate them from D&D to...