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Both have been updated. Their pagecount is different but this is because the one on DriveThru splits it into 3 PDFs and one direct from CR has it all in one PDF file.

Yeah. Whether I've favorited extremely detailed system or very light systems, very narrative systems or very gamist systems - I've always held to liking very CONSISTENT systems. Have some common metrics, and re-use them everywhere instead of making 'special mechanics and subsystems' for so many...

Yeah I took almost 2 decades off from the hobby (2005-2022) and that leads me having to put caveats around a lot of things. Which I sometimes forget to do. Like my perception of rules light vs rules heavy is shaped by games like Rolemaster, GURPS, And D&D 3.5 vs Amber, Everway, BESM, etc… Then...

Yeah. In consider Mist engine rules light because the "rules" fits on a 2 page spread that is half art. There's a several hundred page book but it's mostly guidance on how to do rulings. It's a multi-hudred advice column. Like the ancient game 'Go' - the rules for that can fit on an index...

What a difference a bit of time can make. The me of late 2025 is on the other side of this split from the me of early 2025. Over the course of 2025 I saw my Pathfinder game start to unravel, and right as that was happening Daggerheart hit. For a long time I've only seen 'rules light systems'...

You could go another way with that too. A WWI style 'hopeless war for no reason' scenario. Everyone always sets things in worlds AFTER the Time War, or where there's some Time Agency. But what about setting it in the final parts of a doomed time war where everyone is going to lose but they're...

CW is/was (didn't they go out of business?) mostly a teen network, and they like ensemble casts. My guess is they think the way to get teens to pay attention is to have a bunch of adults act like overly EMO versions of teens and spend hours on relationship drama. Every one of their shows is...

I liked that. They were rural folksy people with good hearts. Today’s politics has us all thinking rural people are hopelessly lost in a cult which just isn’t true. I liked that Gunn made them true to form and let them be country people as well as an ethical center for Clark.

This is a Supergirl who who watched her home planet die. She’s got trauma to work through. Unlike Superman she also likely knew all along that the Kryptonians intended not to help Earth but to invade it. Going somewhere else and getting wasted has probably been a way of avoiding that. Next...

I just put 9 or so links into the first post in the thread. :)

Nah this keeps getting buried. Despite being the number two seller on DriveThruRPG there seems to be very little hype for the game. That said there’s a surprising number of actual plays out there. Especially if you expand your search timo include their other two older games - handy for seeing...

The different actual plays have revealed to me that you really need to bring in a lot if narrative play like the GMing advice of Daggerheart noted, and some Group Design - pejoratively known as description on demand, and I forget the real name but will edit once I have it. That’s needed to...

Bumping since we’ve got another thread picking up on it also. I’ve spent the time between then and now trying to find a group running it but most of them are on European time. Also picked up Otherscape and have been reading both and listening to actual plays. I think Mist in general is now my...

Quite a few people just simply never were on the ride, or only slightly so. I started tRPGs in a one-shot in 1980 at my cousin's but that never went anywhere and it's a side of the family I've not even seen since that day. So... in 82 two things happened. I got the D&D basic set as a birthday...

This analysis really hit home for me on that point, and the contrast with Superman in the new movie. It's also an insanely brutal takedown of both the older movie, it's director, and that director's "faith"...: And on topic. It shows how two radically different ways of handling violence leaves...

Folks probably won't understand my perspective. Since I'm in the middle of working through it I'm not sure I fully understand it yet either. This topic has been on my mind a LOT of late. Especially after watching comparisons between the new Superman movie and the one where he was evil from a...

Outside of doing a few randomly generated dungeons back during AD&D 1E in the early 80s just as a gag because those crazy tables were there, I've never liked random encounters and almost always if not actually always avoided using them. If something doesn't have a purpose in the story or...

Does the world really need another MMO? Those things cost an insane amount to make, and just end up being tools to driving up online addiction through microtransactions and yet still fail to turn much profit all while managing to dilute brands and anger fans.

I think that was more me than them. I took their example and used it to make a hypothetical of a potential player who was way out of sync with their group. But the original example was more mild. I just used it to launch a hypothetical in order to examine handling when groups have players that...