Search results

  1. Gradine

    Warning points visible?

    In fairness, I'd say a good 40% of the "discipline" are gags or jokes
  2. 1000000276.png

    1000000276.png

  3. Gradine

    Dungeon World Gets New Owners, Second Edition Planned

    This for sure! I hesitantly looked into this because I trusted the writers and enjoyed their work and it looks like Dungeon World 2e is turning into exactly the kind of game I had hoped DW1e would've been. I can't help but feel a little bad for the DW fans who are being demoralized by this...
  4. Gradine

    Eberron: Forge of the Artificer to Be Priced at $29.99

    Also this is way outside the realm of this thread or even this forum but I would be fascinated to learn at some point how Spanish schools/society grapple with their own legacy of participation/facilitation in the Atlantic Slave Trade, because you have brought this point up before in...
  5. Gradine

    Eberron: Forge of the Artificer to Be Priced at $29.99

    If I were WotC and I really wanted to reboot Dark Sun, this is what I would do, but I would go about it first with Magic: The Gathering releasing their own "spiritual successor" as a plane setting without all of the negative baggage but with some very familiar hallmarks. Then you put out a...
  6. Gradine

    Spoilers The Pitt on Max

    My wife mostly binged this and loved it. She told me about a character she loved who reminded her a lot of me, and I was like "yeah right" because I've never really felt represented by a fictional character before. Anyway I am making my way very slowly through the season (I think I might be...
  7. Gradine

    D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Would that make it more accurate to call it steampunkpunk?
  8. Gradine

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Is your contention that any game mechanic that would prevent the player from deciding every single their character says and does, such as those mechanics modeling anything from morale to willpower to sanity to mind control, is inherently limiting to or a lessening of player agency? Should a game...
  9. Gradine

    What does it take for an RPG to die?

    I am interested in how many TTRPGs (whole games or even supplements) are lost media. A recent study found that 87% of all video games created before 2010 are no longer legally available, and I imagine the ratio for TTRPGs isn't much better. I also know that because legal archiving is difficult...
  10. Gradine

    Spider-Man: Noir

    Nic Cage is perfect for Noir. My favorite quote on Cage comes from Ethan Hawke: "I’m kind of obsessed with Nic Cage... He’s the only actor since Marlon Brando that’s actually done anything new with the art of acting; he’s successfully taken us away from an obsession with naturalism into a kind...
  11. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    I haven't played a game on PC that isn't Phasmophobia in a very long time. My wife and I have tried playing Diablo II and III on console, and while it does make it so much more convenient to play together, it just doesn't feel right to play a Diablo game without rapidly clicking on monsters...
  12. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    In other news, the latest Blue Prince with zero context, having "beaten" the game on Day 19, I'm now on Day 65 and zeroing in on I think the last few puzzles left to solve. Just put together the final piece of one late game puzzle by... walking past a lunch box. Also I'm pretty sure my mom And...
  13. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    At least we're a lot more likely to be able to get a McFlurry out of a working machine now?
  14. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    You are right, of course; I was conflating sales figures with actual player numbers, and the Doom shareware was very popular. Quake too; when I was looking up all this stuff I found accounts that Quake II's sales figures were much lower than you'd expect because people figured out how to easily...
  15. Gradine

    D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    I can understand not liking the art style being shown here, taste is subjective, yadda yadda. But calling it "generic"? Without a point of view? That's just straight up not true. There is a definitive sense of style and direction here. You may not like it, but it's far from generic...
  16. Gradine

    What does it take for an RPG to die?

    Well, I can't speak for the WEG D6 Star Wars Discord I found, because it had a "no politics clause", but not like here has a "no politics clause", but like a NuTSR-esque "no politics clause". I thought I'd at least poke my head in but the final line in the "Rules Agreement" said "The only "cis"...
  17. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Birds are real! They were just driven to extinction by the CIA and replaced with look-a-like drones to surveil the American people in the 1960's.
  18. Gradine

    What does it take for an RPG to die?

    I keep seeing WEG D6 Star Wars popping up and... that game still has a pretty active, if not incredibly large, active community. I myself am a member of two such Facebook groups, one with over 3k members, and the other is... is.... ...this group is run by Vincent Florio??? How did I not know...
  19. Gradine

    What does it take for an RPG to die?

    Are people still playing FUDGE? Were there a significant number of FUDGE fans out there who saw FATE, said "Nah, I'm good," and are keeping the dream alive?
Top