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This thread inspired a five word phrase of advice for my niece, who Gm'd her first session this past weekend: "Don't capitulate to 'Wrong Fun'."

Yog-Sothoth freed from Pentagon prison.

I've been involved with rpgs since about 1977-78 and played in such diverse places as a tent in mom's backyard, a neighbor's house where an rpg package was misdelivered, Lone Star Geyser in Yellowstone Park, a night train to Prague, and at Sarajevo Airport during a four year military siege. But...

Ah. The Mel Gibson defense.

Topographical subregions; microclimates. A swamp the size as defined in this thread as "local" could certainly have different neighborhoods; e.g. copse of tress, near-stagnant slough, bayou stream, cheniers around the cypress grove...

Mumbly-mumbly something about lies in the eye of the beholder (which is not at all the same as a Beholder's eye). I see beauty in the many lives of each dog-ear'd page.

A scenario like an episode / seasonal arc-story of Deadwood.

There is an entire field of academic research which involves studying the marginalia of what authors have written in the books they read and research. Personally, I find such notes and notations of some authors to be far more fascinating than the fiction they produce. Through more than half my...

Well, that intent is a given of almost all rpg releases, but hardly helpful to running the game immediately. The play test scenario was rather space on anything other than basic skill checks and encounters, so we'd hope that the intro scenario following it would have far more to do with the...

The original Twilight: 2000 booklets were 24 pages for players, 32 for the gm. Perhaps the best example of lean game prose I've encountered in 40+ years involved with rpgs. Of the additional material for first edition published, the page count exceeded 48 only once in 22 modules—with the Small...

And publicly sharing an opinion that it cannot be racism based on a thimble full of information about an ocean of troubles is likely only going to feed your pre-set "nitpicky" ideas.

Great comment.^^ "The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves." (Clifford Geertz) A secondary thought to it (and a shake-my-head kinda addition) is how many of those complaining about misappropriation have ever studied or travelled somewhere outside of their own culture? Internet blogs are...

Ten years ago (when we were both in our forties), my best friend since I was 9 and he was 12 took his own life. His wife passed all his writings and books and things on to me. Among them was an incredible rpg adventure. Using circa 5th edition CoC & Nephilim rules, he had written extensive notes...

I play this game naming the first that spring to mind instead of ruminating & calculating 🤔 Top Five—played since 2014 • Twilight: 2000 (w/mostly Delta Green rule set) • Delta Green • Conan 2d20 • Coriolis • GenLab Alpha •• (recent play test) Top Five—1977-present • Twilight: 2000 • Traveller...

A few years ago, I gave in and spent several hundred on a rare OOP box set that I'd known of sine it was published and almost immediately disappeared from first-hand markets. After repeated requests to the publisher as to no where I could find a new copy, I dropped the cash for it second hand...

A highly reductive rationalization. Is GW in the US? Is Branimir in the US? Does everyone in the US—or even all Warhammer fans in the US—see things the same way? I've lived in nine countries of very different cultures in my life and worked in the wake of Very Bad Things Humans Do To Each...

Take a joke. If someone says, "Everybody loves ___" and another responds, "I don't", you see that as antagonistic? Did I insult the person behind the statement or the game? Don't believe so. I stated I have never loved D&D while slipping in a quote from a formerly hilarious cartoon show...

Statements like this crack me—so consistently—up. I do not and have never loved D&D, and although I have never gone a calendar year since then without playing one or several rpgs, I haven't played D&D in 40 years. I am currently involved with my first foray into 2d20 with Conan and quite...