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A lot of games are dabbling in that play space now. I think it's novel, but not something that's going to really become the new normal. I think that the new... is it Descent? Maybe Mansions of Madness? Regardless, they've removed the "DM" player and replaced them with an app. I think one of...

I've played both Mice and Mystics and Hogwarts.  I think that although both of them are on the "easier to learn" end of the spectrum for new gamers, Hogwarts can be a lot meaner.  It really does a good job of letting you fall into really neat combos, and lets you feel really smart for wandering...

I noticed earlier that I still had AIM, MSN, and Yahoo messenger handles attached to my account, and I can not for the life of me figure out how to get rid of them.

I picked up a copy a couple weeks ago, and though I've only had a chance to breeze through it, I was... I don't know if impressed is quite the right word, but it comes close. The subject matter seems a lot different from what I remember in college. Less about sexy, super powered political...

I started a thread about it over here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?653142-Mystery-Dice but I figured I'd a throw a direct line to you. Any idea what these might be from?

I'm an "other" as well. Each of my campaigns tend to be pretty different, but it usually falls somewhere between: Whatever the rules say you start off with. An idea I stole from some game from the last 20 years where a character's wealth level is essentially a part of the point buy of...

Just to bring the conversation back around, the person on Twitter who was asking is related to the person who took the picture. The person who took the picture is a teacher. The dice belong to a student that man teaches.

I was recently pointed towards a Twitter discussion where someone was trying to figure out what a particular set of dice was, and I've spent the past couple of days agonizing over it: https://twitter.com/TappyToeClaws/status/1034266381942960133 Each die appears to be identical, with one...

Four or five years? I've got at least two shelves full of unread books stretching back from the mid 90s. I've managed to at least wrestle the completionist bug into submission with the larger game systems I play, but I still have way too many indy game books that I picked up and have never...

If that was directed at me, I'd argue that, for the people involved in that argument, there are definitively two different groups arguing. I am not saying that there are two kinds of people, I'm saying that for the people who have that argument, there are two sides.

The age old divide between people who feel as though a DM fudging a die roll is part and parcel of the D&D experience vs those who consider fudging a die roll anathema. If wondering what happens and rolling a die on a chart is suspenseful for someone, but asking a person to be a temporary DM to...

Beat me to it. Does this possibly fall back to an offshoot of the argument about die rolling vs DM fiat?

Goalposts and Strawmen: A Play in Three Acts Caliburn: It is a fact that a game without dice is a game where you only get to choose 100% success or 100% failure. Me: I just played in a game with no dice where you get to choose something between success and a little bit of failure, all the way...

You said that a game with no dice rolls would be a game in which, and I quote: I explained that not only could I imagine such a game, but that I frequently play them. I also explained that such a game would not be limited to results that were "always a success or always a failure" because...

Like I said before, they wouldn't have used the term at the time, but their complaint would have most certainly been that it was metagaming. What stuck in their craw was that it didn't emulate "real life" and a person didn't decide, after they were born, what their charisma or intelligence was...

This thread has also reminded me a lot about the heated arguments my college gaming club used to get into when 3rd Ed came out about how everyone was cheating (I think I only started hearing the term metagaming two or three years later) if they didn't roll up their stats 3D6 straight down the...

I like that a lot, and it brought to mind the old Everway attributes of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. If I remember correctly earth was basically constitution, air was intelligence, fire was strength, and water was perception, but then you'd combine them. So if you were arguing angrily, you'd...

I play in games like this quite frequently nowadays and they're incredibly satisfying. Check out The Quiet Year (https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year) if you're interested in one of them. Primarily I'd point out that they very rarely work along binary choices of success or...

Yay! Necro'd! Olgar have you had a swing at Azul or Sagrada yet? They're beautiful puzzley games that work well as an introductory game for non gamers. Both of them have alright solo play and can be easily tweaked into co-op. Did Splendor ever make the suggestion list on the previous couple...

Flour. I think I might go for a little early lunch. :7 Report to follow.