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Direct sales have nothing to do with the supplement treadmill and the indie publishing model has the defining characteristics of the supplement treadmill, especially now that it is frankly promoted as a single brand. What you really have are a handful of core indie brand exemplars that sell...

The degree to which GMs moderate results and the way in which they do so are powerful tools for setting the tone of the game. I think most RPGs do a fairly poor job of explaining how to successfully moderate RPG rules. What I find funny is that the clain that moderation exists as a...

Naturally, systems that can provide what you want are necessarily limited in scope because it's functionally impossible to robustly test every permutation of a complex game *and* given instances of actual play do not match suppositions about what play will be like, even if those are based on...

Yes, I know we were all terribly upset about something somebody said about something that isn't even about RPGs that, of we were to imagine he was, would offend us because we drew lots of maps once. We get it. Check. The problem that Harrison is referring to comes from the fact that in...

http://enworld.rpgnow.com/products/product_21602.jpg Mob United Media's Advanced Quick20 is now available in print, as a perfect-bound softcover offering at Lulu.com. Advanced Quick20 includes revised and expanded OGL rules suited to almost any genre. Go rules-light without sacrificing...

http://enworld.rpgnow.com/products/product_21602.jpg Mob United Media's Advanced Quick20 is now available in print, as a perfect-bound softcover offering at Lulu.com. Advanced Quick20 includes revised and expanded OGL rules suited to almost any genre. Go rules-light without sacrificing...

I wish gamers were better tippers. The one constant I hear about LARP groups and cons from service employees is that they're terrible tippers. So please, leave a decent gratuity!

The issue is about what game traits signify to the character. We all know what hit points represent in the narrative, because it says so quite clearly in the books. But metamagic? Certain feats? Optimized or not, some players prefer that they remain purely game artifacts, and some want them to...

It's WAY simpler than it sounds. When it comes to performing a given task, use the final modified bonus before applying equipment. Ignore everything else unless it provides a situational bonus. That's what you'd use for Quick20. Basically, Quick20 uses 4 stats: Fortitude=Fort and damage saves...

Quick20 (currently in an expanded, collected edition called "Advanced" Quick20, though it isn't really advanced) is in my sig. I can tell you all about it. The whole kit and kaboodle in that edition is about 6 bucks, but it collects a lot of options. The basic game is still around, for just...

It is the theory that you dislike your fellow players so much that they have no social utility to you unless you are all pretending to be someone else.

Hey, if they keep paying me for the work, I suppose they can not publish all the stuff they've solicited lately. But that would be insane.

Peterborough, ON. No reboot since 1994, though a case can be made for even earlier if in-continuity special events are counted (some of which predate the release of the Masquerade rules). Effectively, much of the old continuity has faded from view, but that's because it outlasted any one group...

I think it has the problems a lot of fan trailers have, where you start with a little concept and end with OMG GREEN LANTERN. This is, coincidentally, a problem I often see in supers games and comics. Most of the popular heroes define themselves in their corner of the setting. Even Spidey, the...

Several years ago, I did get a not-implausible rumour (i.e. not some FLGS guy) that Hasbro had played with the idea but that the asking price was too high for anyone interested in publishing the RPG. However, this might have been nothing more than a bunch of executives brainstorming about how to...

I stand corrected. They'd be about the same size, or Fan Expo would be a bit bigger of we compare it to Dragoncon's unique vs. gate estimates across 4 days compared to Fan Expo's 3. That would be the problem I'm talking about. I can see you entered this discussion with unvarnished...

Oh sure. I have no doubt they're substantially similar -- just not the same. And game companies typically have a less-than-stellar track record when it comes to supporting the Canadian segment of the hobby, including everything from inaccurate Canadian MSRPs to foisting off convention...

This speaks more to the poor level of effort made to understand the Canadian market than anything else. While it is convenient to treat is as a common North American market in some respects, it is highly misleading in others. By and large, the information only looks "exactly the same" because it...

Roleplaying is not the same as tabletop RPGs. Roleplaying is an activity (or a set of activities) that can be accomplished in a number of ways. Tabletop RPGs are just one of them. As a whole, though, roleplaying is a tremendously popular activity when you consider MMOs, fanfic, reenactment, etc...

I was quite surprised at how popular Mage is in Brazil. I gave a huge interview for Brazilian fans last year.