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After running so many of the official campaigns for 5e, I'm fairly burnt out on "save the world" style campaigns. Give me a basic dungeon or hex crawl, or something else with lower stakes than facing forces out to destroy the world.

The idea of a someone thinking that Runequest would be a better fit for a ten-year-old than the Red Box is amusing. I get that people are passionate about their particular game of choice, but that seems a tall order for a kid to start with.

Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base is pretty darn funny. And that Adam Driver was involved, that really brought it over the top.

I paused my current Streetkid re-play to wait for the new patch in a couple weeks. Currently playing Armored Core VI. As much as I'm a huge Soulsborne fan, this is the first time I've played an Armored Core. It kinda feels like what I pictured Battletech looking like in my head when I was a...

The older I get, the more tragic John Candy's death at 43 feels.

Living up to the original is going to be a tall order. But the ensuing years have also provided a lot of material ripe for parody. I kinda feel like the time for all these 80s sequels passed the world by about 20 years ago. There's a ton of 80s nostalgia now, sure, but the original actors are...

Definitely. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The book does talk about the prevalence of cheating, and why. Interesting stuff.

That is actually pretty actionable. There's a clear setting that isn't just generic fantasy. There's a magic system, monsters, peoples. And a clear conflict.

I keep meaning to show up at a con game and play an elf with a pot belly and receding hairline. Just to see how people react.

Shared Fantasy is really worth reading. As far as I'm aware, it's the earliest academic work examining RPGs and gamers. But it's also quite readable. Two things that struck me about in particular. 1 - Even in the earliest days, there were people fudging dice rolls. and 2 - Likewise, arguments...

Oh, absolutely. Just look at Vampire the Masquerade. You have layers between the mortal and vampiric worlds. But part of why it worked was the Masquerade. Vampires are on a whole different power level from mortals. But they are still bound by the need for secrecy. Not to mention the...

Their second-most successful Backerkit campaign, behind Caverns of Thracia. However, when you look at the number of backers rather than funds raised, it drops to the 7th place.

I finished Tiptree & McIntyre's The Girl Who Was Plugged In / Screwtop. The Girl Who Was Plugged in is so ahead of its time - if PKD is the grandfather of cyberpunk, Tiptree deserves to be named the grandmother. Screwtop isn’t as prescient, but rather it shows how little the penal system has...

And maybe that's the crux of it for me. I'd say it's also about allies, in addition to opponents. Because it's important to me to square the ecosystem of the game world.

Yeah, definitely Dark Sun over Mystara. Original Greyhawk would vibe, too. As far as DCC RPG-specific settings, Lankhmar and Empire of the East are both very cool (though I might recommend using the setting of Empire of the East without the class restrictions). Dying Earth, likewise, but it's a...

Absolutely. That's one of the mistakes of the most recent Conan movie (well, that and everyone screaming up into the sky, holding something), making it be about saving the world. It's not about superheroes on one end of the spectrum and incompetents on the other. Rather, to my mind, it's about...

It's like, if you want to play a superhero, play a superhero game. I've no interest in running a game for murderhobos with the power to level whole villages. Here's the thing about Conan, Elric, Imaro, Kane, Jirel, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, and Morgaine - they all fail in the course of their...

That's my take on the situation as well. He clearly has a deep love for the setting. While it's possible that there was some requirement inserted into the Jennell Jaquays rights purchase years ago, I don't think that there's been any indication of that.

Citing Lamentations of the Flame Princess illustrates the key problem with this - it could all too easily end up a puerile edgelord exercise. There's not really any deep worldbuilding in the movies, so it's primarily going to be about tone - and for my money, if you want a Deathstalker RPG to...

My preference these days, is that unless I'm specifically running a superhero game, I don't really want to run a game where the PCs rapidly reach, or start out with, superheroic status. They should be part of the world, subject to its dangers and challenges, for much of the campaign. But by the...