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I'd be interested to know if that white hat was brought in by One Book Shelf to do penetration testing. If so, it's strange that they didn't do the penetration test on the test version of the site that I'm sure they have.

I actually don't purchase a whole lot anymore. Some Traveller here, a D&D Beyond purchase there. The only thing I buy physically now is Star Wars RPG products because I'm a massive Star Wars fan, but I know I'll never get to use them.

Humble Bundle going on for Star Trek Adventures with four more days to go.

I have been in the process of shedding a lot of my collection of books, miniatures, and games. Anything that didn't immediately spark joy was put into the give away/sell pile. I made a rule that only two plastic storage containers could go back into our storage room. I ended up keeping a bunch...

No, not at all. Honestly, I think licenses where you actually pay some sort of license fee or percentage of sales ala Traveller's Aid Society Creator Program tends to be better and would be a better choice for Cortex. On the other hand, a free license tends to raise the overall profile and...

Oooh. OK. Still not a great license, but not as horrific as I was thinking.

So, Cortex, a generic RPG system, owns a licensee's lore, art, fiction under this agreement? Am I reading that part correctly? If so, that is some utter nonsense. Cortex isn't Traveller, where there is a very good reason to have such safeguards regarding lore in the Travellers' Aid Society...

No truer words about the game have ever been spoken, Umbran!

So a show where a group of friends comes together on a Friday night to play a board game and come out on Sunday evening no longer speaking to each other going forward? I'd watch it. In all seriousness, my cousin had a friend that completely left the friend group after a game of Diplomacy in...

Podcast: Dungeon Master's Block Category: Talk DMB talks about D&D from the perspective of the Dungeon Master and dives into topics such as worldbuilding, mediating party conflict, and including players in the story. My favorite D&D podcast in a sea of actual play productions.

These are some good first steps. Keep up the pressure UPW! Union strong!

I definitely see where you are coming from, it can certainly be annoying, especially when those accents are only used for stereotypes. Now, the reason I stopped watching the video two minutes in is that I can't stand web-based actual play for some reason, it is just too disjointed.

I think it is just the idea of voicing the "other" in a fantasy space. Are you Eastern European? I'm Anglo-American, and the number of times people put on an English accent (ANY of them) in fantasy RPGs would put the numbers for Eastern European/Scottish accents to shame. I don't let it bother...

I'll be interested to see how this goes. I'm not a huge actual play consumer. I stopped listening to Critical Role halfway through Season 1 (just started Season 3 to give it another go). I hope it does well and then maybe there could be one for Pathfinder, where my heart truly lies, but I have a...

I would just be reading sword and sorcery books ALL the time rather than part of the time. I might be writing some stories rather than trying to write modules. Besides that, I'm not sure. I've been gaming since I was nine, so I'm not sure where I'd be now if gaming wasn't in my life.

I mean, Gary did have a case of the ol' done-lop disease where the gut "done lop'd over the belt buckle" as it were. Not to make fun as I suffer from this as well!

I've had the "Games Knight" from Bears Head Miniatures for several years.

2e: 1999-2003(?) Intermediate School and most of Middle School. Not sure exactly when I picked up 3rd Edition, but I remember having just the D&D Adventure Game boxed set from 1999 for several years. 3e: 2003-2008 Late Middle School and all of High School. By the time 4E was released my group...

My FLGS at least is very dependent on what is "in" at any particular point in time. Part of that, I'm sure, is due to having only so much capital that they can tie up in non-TCG games as they used to be almost entirely a card shop.

As they say, "That's, like, your opinion man," and it's a valid one. There are plenty of people that do not enjoy the OSR style of game, but there are plenty of people who have never even given it a chance. Also, as Urriak Uruk stated, OSR doesn't necessarily mean exactly the way things were...