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My personal favorite is Call of Cthulhu 4th edition, and Chill from the 1990's, followed by Unknown Armies. For more modern games Mothership is without peer, and I am rather fond of Liminal Horror, which is a great minimalist modern horror take. Worth mentioning as well is Vaesen, although its...

That's some art to rival the AD&D 2nd Edition revised black cover books, if you know what I mean.

At any table there is likely 1 person who does care about the setting, and that player (sometimes known as the GM or DM) usually greatly enjoys it. The trick is to make sure the table has a good time, and so long as the balance between what everybody wants is maintained it should work well. If...

I wonder, though, if any half elves made their way in by way of the various infamous tomes of Appendix N. Your point is well taken, though....it's just that, much like orcs in general and so many other things (halflings fer ex, and Balors who once long ago were actually balrogs) Tolkien's...

It is entirely possible (I just couldn't get in to Dragonlance so have a lore-deficit there), but that emphasizes the real issue not being half elves, but being the lore itself focusing exclusively on negative connotations rather than positive.

Leaving Tolkien aside, both half elves and half orcs have been a popular thing in D&D itself now for fifty years. That's enough reason for me to feel they should still be available. It is always easier to give than to take away, and people notice when something has been taken, as it has here...

Alien Covenant, one of my favorite movies.

TSR's Spellfire and other cash grab card games, along with a very specific return policy from that period of time that let retailers send back unsold product for a refund are what killed it. The novels had nothing to do with it.

To the OP, Tales of the Valiant is just D&D 5E with some different subclass and ancestry options. It's got some specific rules tweaks that are slightly different, but you could easily have someone at the table bring a PC from the 2014 D&D PHB, the 2024 D&D PHB, Tales of the Valiant and...heck...

I have had success with this by turning the sound off and making sure captions are on. Solves my "watching a video at work" conundrum.

I have a weird suggestion: try finding a copy of Tunnels & Trolls and see if they can grokk it. T&T is not mechanically rigorous, but you can go from zero to hero with some luck easily. As GM its super easy to run, and you can control the power flow pretty easily. Combats are big dice pool rolls...

Pretty much. I recall the idea being that your # of attacks wasn't "individual swings" with a weapon but rather how many opportunities you had to make a strike. But then arrows were counted down with each attack roll, and ultimately I think most people equated 1 strike to 1 attack roll and so it...

My recollection from reading on the subject was not that you needed 50 arrows to down a target, but that you missed 49 times and then finally hit, usually taking the guy out with the single final shot.

Well....isn't that what Second Wind is for fighters (in 5E)? And a short rest burning hit dice? I thought this edition had already embraced that idea.

Probably because those tools will cut in to sales with licensed VTT/generators online already through Pathbuilder 2, Roll20, Demiplane, etc.

B&G has always been about prestige "high end collector" products. These are indeed aimed at whales, and sometimes I do wish I could get my hands on some of what they make but common sense kicks in and reminds me I have bills to pay and that money can buy a lot of other more useful stuff. But I...

This is something from my youth that, like records and 8-tracks, I have no interest in re-engaging with. But, like records, my son (and other quirky eccentrics of his generation) might eat it up as a nostalgia for a time they never knew that is now ancient history to them. So yeah, I suspect I...

I don't know what to tell you. There are some good books on the subject that can illustrate for you the prevailing attitudes of the time and how they were gradually changing if that will help; I can only provide anecdotal evidence as someone who cut their reading teeth on the fiction by actually...

I can tell you haven't played the BRP family of games. As a long time vet of both D&D and BRP/Call of Cthulhu/Runequest (though admittedly not the current generation of RQ) I can safely say that the notion of niche protection is not a factor in how these games play, and if you try playing RQ or...

I never had an issue with THAC0 until D&D 3E came out, and once I saw how it handled the new ascending AC process I could not unsee it. Going back to descending AC and THAC0 has been purely for grim nostalgia ever since. Like eating a bowl of old grits with stale bread to reminisce about the...