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Sorry, but to me that's the opposite of good sandbox design. The world exists entirely independently of the PCs. There are no such things as "level appropriate areas." If the players pay attention, they'll be able to tell when they're in over their heads. Letting PCs run is also a great move.

That's me more excited to actually watch this.

It certainly can lead there, for some. There's a lot of toxicity in many Stoic spaces. But I think that's mostly the era we're living in and the internet rather than anything inherent to Stoicism. People taking the ideas and twisting them to suit what they want rather than learning from what's...

Yes, absolutely. Not a chance. As mentioned there are too many contradictory rules, too many exceptions, etc. You'd need a computer to run everything and feeding the rules into an “AI” and asking it to run a game RAW with all the rules would likely result in the robot uprising. It's dead...

$40k short? They’ll make that tomorrow easily. I dropped that into a converter and it spit out $1,175,365.25 as the magic number. That is a lot of money. Maybe take the win.

Same. Absolutely love that game. Still play it occasionally. Beaching your ship and walking across land to find treasure, attack towns, etc. The dancing...ugh. Such a great game.

Check out the Events page on the Pirate Borg website. You might find something. https://www.limithron.com/calendar

Capitalism proving yet again that necessary services should not be tied to the profit motive.

Best of luck to your striking postal workers. Hope they get everything they want and more.

Of the Mongoose editions, I liked 1E because it at least looked and felt closer to the original. Of the various editions over the last almost 50 years there’s nothing I’ve seen that will pull me from the original 1977 Traveller. It’s just too streamlined, too light, too open of a system...

RIP Jane Goodall. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/dr-jane-goodall-legendary-animal-rights-advocate-dies-91-rcna235001

They’re closing in on $850,000 a bit over 24 hours from launch. They added stretch goals and blew through all but two. At €777,777 they’re commissioning an OST by JRPG composers. They will most likely reach this today as they’re only €58,000 shy. At €999,999 they’re unlocking “the future” of...

There’s a thread on the purple site about the Kickstarter and the idea of dungeon crawling came up. It would work fine. You just have to give the PCs opportunities to recharge IP (inventory points). See the second half of this post...

Exactly. Take all that underhanded survival at all costs experience from those dungeon crawling games and apply it here. Prepare. Drop a ship on their head. Rig the briefcase with explosives. Fight at long range from reinforced positions from behind cover. Etc. The game's mechanics for combat...

All this about the OSR is one reason I love Classic Traveller 1977. It's very old-school design in the "rulings not rules" sense, but holy Spaceballs would it benefit from some OSR-style graphic and information design. I'm not as familiar with the Cepheus Engine stuff, but I'd be surprised if...

Some days are like that...

If we’re sticking with proper D&D-like games, d20-based that’s an offshoot, clone, fork, etc of D&D, then it’s Pirate Borg at the top followed close behind by Shadowdark, followed a bit behind by Old-School Essentials Advanced. If we’re opening things up to non-d20 and not direct offshoot...

How long did it take to fund? It’s only at 130%. Less than 900 backers. That’s kinda surprising for a CR Kickstarter. I wonder what’s keeping the interest that low? Everyone who wanted the game already bought the core set? People less interested because campaign 4 isn’t Daggerheart? Too...

For those wondering, the lock icons and numbers represent which scene in the quickstart you will use (or unlock) that part of the character sheet. It legit walks you through how things work in a specific order to teach you the game like a JRPG tutorial.