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I still have the tape and a functioning VCR. :) But I'll be sure to forward the Youtube link to my old circle of gamers.

I don't know if any of my friends and I actually ever played it, but the tape was something my college friends and I used to throw in once a year to have a laugh at.

Yeah, but there's a difference between an author having a bad thing happen to a character in a novel or screenplay and a DM interpreting that as "Killing every NPC that is loved by a player character makes for good story telling!"

I'd imagine that when it happens at the bad end of the spectrum, it's usually less as a means of motivation and more just knee jerk trope usage. I wouldn't want to venture a guess as to what the percentages are, but how many movies have you seen where if they bothered to write a character as...

In general, my campaigns tend to run closer to an E6 power level, where the only people the characters ever really meet with levels are the other player characters. That being said, there's usually not anyone to ask for help, and if there is help to be given it's pretty mundane. I had been...

I'm assuming that I'm coming to this party a little late, but figured I'd chime in anyway. That age range is difficult, and a lot of it really depends on how savvy those 8 year olds are. As Deset said Apples to Apples is probably the safest bet. If the kids are little bit more on the mature...

I don't remember the specifics, but it was something to do with playing Friday and the dog incorrectly. Maybe I was giving myself too many actions, or wasn't making things cost enough? Beyond that, I don't really know. It was way too long ago.

I've recently fallen in love with Blades in the Dark, and part of the idea for the game is that your character's backstory isn't something you deal with beyond a one word answer as to where your family is from, a 3 or 4 word answer as to what you used to do before you became a no good scoundrel...

TANGENT: I've also run into numerous players who argue that having a character who has friends and/or relatives is a glaring Achilles' heel that only stupid people agree to having.

When I previously rebuilt my game table (currently in the midst of version 3) I had been contemplating having either the entire table top, or insets at each player station painted with chalkboard paint. I had originally decided against going the dry erase route because I knew that dry erase...

I'm in the same boat, I played one solo game so that I could teach our gaming group when I first got it, lost, and realized that I had been cheating. Then I replayed the scenario twice more with the group and without cheating, and we never even came close. We all enjoyed it, but haven't had...

I like it, and have the expansion Secrets of Mad King Ludwig, but in my experience a little less than a half of any random assortment of gamers is going to enjoy this kind of tile laying/building game. I've only played it 3 and 4 player, maybe a half dozen games so far. Never tried it 1 or 2...

What did you end up getting him?

I have discovered that a game exists, but I have forgotten what the game is called. Thematically it's like the 1980s movie The Thing (though it's not the new Mondo Games boardgame). People play an assortment of scientist types trapped at an Antarctic research facility with a shapeshifting...

We usually cover this in emails over the week between sessions. End of the nights for us tend to be cliff hangers and people running out the door cause it's past their bed time.

I was figuring a secondary monitor or projector. I already play with some sloppy as hell people myself, with well more than 3000 dollars dollars with of toys safely out of the blast radius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMklcdzcNcU The really exciting part for me was around the 1:12 mark. The idea of being able to go from sketch to three dimensional environment while sitting at a game table makes my heart go all aflutter. Anyone out there planning on getting one of these yet?

For those who haven't heard about these things yet, there's a newish hybrid breed of RPG and boardgame called a "megagame" that's gaining popularity around the globe. Ars Technica recently wrote an article about them, the people who are making them, and the trials and tribulations they face...

I recently reread Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald." I really, really, REALLY wish he had written more of that.

I'm just starting the Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. It's a somewhat tongue in cheek Lovecraftian/spy thriller/math is magic book. I'm liking it so far.