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Sure. And it’s 1/X as vulnerable with X torches burning. But I’m talking specifically about the timer running out and having multiple overlapping timers. It goes from tension inducing to busywork.

It messes with my sense of the world as a real place, but it’s explicitly a game element and the purpose is to push those “oh hell” moments of panic when the torch goes out. If you run multiple timers you effectively remove that, so might as well not both. It just becomes busywork with no teeth.

I'm sure someone's already done a parody of that as an adventure by now.

First. To arms! To arms! Someone has blasphemed against the Holy Game. To arms! Second. I should write a module about a dice game sweeping the land that’s really a front for a cult.

I keep meaning to listen to that. I wish it were one of his reviews. He knocks those out of the park.

Tell me you've never played or read either game without telling me you've never played or read either game. Woof.

That certainly matches my experience. Boring and serious? Nah. Sounds like torture. The only way to make D&D even minimally palatable is to make it gonzo and goofy.

Margaret Weis out here spitting stone-cold facts like Toon is more fun than D&D.

Not here. Not even ENWorld. Holy hell that is the dumbest thing I'm going to read all week. Maybe all year. You just cost me IQ points with how dumb that was.

I can think of a few people that applies to.

In book publishing it’s usually about 18 months between submission of manuscript and publication date.

We must be reading different threads. There's not much nuance surrounding the game I'm talking about. Outside discussions about That One Perfect Game, sure there's plenty of nuance.

LOL. This place would be a ghost town. Right? There's no problem with the game, the game is perfect, therefore the problem is you.

The flip side is The Game Is Perfect Guy. Me: This is the sort of game I don't enjoy. TGIPG: You must be the problem because the game is perfect. Me: And this other game is what works for my group. TGIPG: That's not possible, that game is trash because it's different from the perfect game...

People always think about the butterfly effect in time travel scenarios but ignore it in their daily lives in the here and now. I’m generally a very pessimistic person, but this is some next level pessimism.

That’s the part most people never realize. The problem isn’t that people are disappointing, it’s that you expect them not to be.

All RPGs are play pretend with extra steps.

Just finished Perry Rhodan #3, The Radiant Bell. Only took me 1.5 hours but far too long to get that time in. The first 2/3 of this one was “As you know, Bob…” dialogue along with catch-up description and synopsis of what’s happened so far. The story, such as it is, centered around a constant...

There's a whole lot of which comes first: the group or the game. For some people the group comes first. It doesn't matter what they play as long as it's the people they want to play with. For some people the game comes first. It doesn't matter who they play with as long as it's the game they...