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The Alien RPG is definitely not for you, then. Nothing good comes of any stories in that setting, except maybe them rescuing Newt in Aliens. But only if you make sure to skip Alien 3 and work up some head canon! This is an interesting point, but it butts up against one of the big differences...

Seems a little weird to just dismiss whole modes of play in RPGs. I just played in a Trophy Dark game that was a blast, and ended with outright PvP and carnage. And it was completely cooperative, since throughout a Trophy Dark game you're proposing bad things that might happen to your fellow PCs...

Means not being able to use the Panic rules in something like Alien or Mothership. So just another trad SF game where everyone's unnervingly level-headed at all times and calmly sweeping and clearing all hostile targets.

Since you only use Agenda cards for cinematic play—very very short campaigns, if not one-shots, to give you immediate stakes and to push toward a more dramatic and memorable conclusion—they're specifically not for getting invested in a longer story. Plus, in cinematic mode they advise you to...

Good bundle on PbtA titles just announced: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/ApocEngine5

I think Monster Overhaul seems useful for really any fantasy GMing, OSR or otherwise, because of those awesome-looking tables and context for each entry. I mean, statboxes are statboxes, we've all seen em, there are tons you can drop in as necessary. This book seems like it's crammed full of...

This seems like great advice, and more helpfully specific than the general "talk like adults" advice. Not that there's anything wrong with that kind of advice, but if it were as simple as just having a frank conversation, situations like this would resolve themselves. I know I've never been able...

I really wanted to like his Joker in Suicide Squad, and I bet he could have done something interesting with better material. But what was there seemed pretty flat to me. What even were his distinctive traits? Just seemed as unhinged as any random meth-head. And then those scenes in the Justice...

This is probably an unrealistic suggestion, but if you really want to keep this player, maybe try a system where it's not really possible to make someone so mechanically complex? If D&D is a requirement maybe try OSE or DCC, or some other OSR thing? If that works out, maybe you could point out...

Jumping the gun here, since I'm sure it'll be featured in a future crowdfunding round-up post, but this new Skerples book looks like an insanely useful must-have for fantasy GMs. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmdk/the-monster-overhaul?ref=profile_saved_projects_live

Not sure sending used condoms to co-stars is considered method, especially since he did that when he wasn't even on set. Between those awful shenanigans and his culty weirdness and general dumb-guy vibe, I think he's about as hateable as it gets (without tipping into criminal territory). And...

Ah, that makes sense. Never mind my jabbing there. Apologies for missing that if you posted the 50k thing before my response. But I don't think that was the sequence? Anyway, good call. I'm with you for SaV, mostly because I don't like the setting. But I totally disagree about Blades in the...

I think you’re misrepresenting how many words it takes to fully get across the FitD rules approach and related GM guidance. In the case of SaV I agree that the setting stuff is pretty pointless, even though I know people who’ve been really happy it was there, and I’d argue that you or anyone...

Have to push back on the premise here a bit, since the parameters are pretty unclear. As @Ruin Explorer noted, typesetting varies wildly, and page numbers can be a really bad measure of book length. Scum and Villainy, for example, a Forged in the Dark game that's by no means rules-heavy, clocks...

After my first session of T2K I absolutely thought "This is basically a perfect zombie apocalypse RPG." You'd have to come up with some additional mechanics for dealing with zombie hordes, but the basics are there (including hit location rules for head shots, and taking penalties when you shoot...

But 1's on ammo dice only matter (as far as causing jams and reducing the gun's reliability) if you push. Ammo dice used without pushing can only help (with 6's), and can't hurt. Plus, if you really need to score a hit, having your gun jam or break (from a push with lots of ammo dice used) might...

Millennium' End's bullet overlays were awesome. But also slow as molasses, whereas the new edition of T2K is ridiculously fast for a trad game. I did love the charging dog images that Millennium's End included, which really gave you a feel for now scary it'd be to have one of those coming for...

Have you looked at the T2K materials? They generally don't do the black background and white text thing. It's black text on white/cream. Totally different organization in T2K. I'm not the biggest fan of card-based initiative in general, but I'm a little confused here. In both Alien and T2K...

How would that be the case? Ammo dice only matter if you roll a 6, so rolling 3 or 4 is way more likely to have an effect than rolling one of them.

I avoid most movie/TV threads on here—high rate of folks pushing up their glasses and finger-wagging about characters doing "stupid "things and so-called plot holes and such—but I can't resist. Reign of Fire rocks! Always has. Completely ridiculous premise that it leans all the way into, without...