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If you haven't seen it, I'd HIGHLY recommend GI Resolute. The full movie is on Youtube. It's more of an anime look, but Good Lord is it gritty and ruthless. It starts off with the body of Major Blood being found, Bazooka's corpse being found on the Flagg right before it explodes, and Cobra...

Another option? Flat out stand your ground and tell them you don't want to run 5e. You're a member of the table also - you can absolutely veto being forced to run a game. Or compromise and say you want to show them 4e - it sounds like it will be as new and shiny to them, because honestly, I'm...

It's been my experience you'd be better to offer to run a short campaign of what YOU want to run than to do all this work on things. If the table doesn't respond well after those sessions, you've tried, they've tried. They may just be resistant because of all the 4e jokes out there...

And, to quote Judge John Hodgman: "Nostalgia is our most toxic impulse."

It worked in the Mandolorian.

I could see either way, mechanically, or both. But I feel 'brings disaster to the wielder' implies you're doomed due to a random fluke, so therefore my vote is a penalty to saves since they're random.

I think I had a manager once in Corporate who explained it to me like this: A CEO implements a plan. The plans will probably take five years to fully integrate. A CEO or head stays, on average, around five years. So, when CEO 1's plan is finally producing fruit, CEO 2 is coming in with a...

When this topic comes up, I always recommend Monte Cook's Requiem for a God. It came out during 3.X, but more than just stats and classes, there are other good details in the book. It talks about a god dying - whether by murder or neglect, or even choosing to step down. It talks about things...

Honestly, I have no problem with running a game for my son and maybe a couple others, but I definitely wouldn't want to go more than 4 players. For big tables, as someone who's first group had 15 people regularly around the table, it is very chaotic, but I feel a lot of times, it's to feed the...

I think people with stable groups forget the difficulties involved before they were stable groups. Forming new groups can be like herding cats, and the more people you have with different life responsibilities and schedules, the harder it is to get consensus. Once you work those kinks out, and...

I don't know that this, like any other take, is universally true. I think the issue is engagement. I've played some Roll20 D&D with randos and the story just wasn't captivating - we were supposed to go investigate this other kingdom, but every other session, we'd get clobbered so hard by that...

As was said earlier, a lot has changed over the years. It used to be easier to get games going through a gaming store - but that assumed the gaming store had any interest in having gaming on premises. Anecdotally, I've seen more than a few game stores that were pretty unwelcoming to new...

Now, I like this. I think I'm going to borrow it. I've been mulling the idea of a campaign where druids are the bad guys and their goal is to 'restore balance' ie let nature run wild. It starts small - villages being beset upon by wild forest animals who no longer fear humans (I live near...

I spend a lot of time looking through StartPlaying, which I would imagine would be the biggest competition for this. I'd say each game runs roughly $10-20/session - the one that blows my mind is an Exandria game, that shows 6/7 seats paid for for $40/session. That's about the top end I've...

Thank you for your work. I wanted to take a minute to say I always enjoy the time I spend reading your pieces.

I'd say the reason to put out books covering that era specifically, as opposed to post-WotC buyout, has more to do with the fact people who were there, boots on the ground, are sadly more and more being put INTO the ground due to old age. I'm 49. I run into gamers that don't know what a Real...

Mechanical changes got convoluted and haphazard? Not to system-war, but I can tell you've never played Rifts, where each successive splatbook was enormously overpowered. Each splatbook was more powerful than the last to the point, it was essentially impossible to play a baseline main book PC...

No sense of comradery? Did you miss the part in the EUROPA quote where Gygax specifically called for women to be excluded from gaming?

I wish Gary was still alive and on the boards so we could track how his attitude may have changed or not over the decades. For me, as a white cis hetero male, over the years I've learned to try to seperate work I enjoy from artists I do NOT enjoy. It's not always easy. I feel it's correct to...

Half the navy fleet mutinied. (Traveller, way post-Fall of Tinath)