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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proven to work? Medicine.

A few of other games that can really help with running Call of Cthulhu would be Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, and Mothership. Monster of the Week for the amazing monster and mystery creation rules and fronts (aka countdowns). Blades in the Dark for the great presentation of clocks...

Can’t wait.

That’s amazing. So much of that makes me smile. The pro-union bit, the first stretch goal being extra money for the video creator, the anti-“AI” message, the two pay-it-back tiers, and the hard times tier. Add in the fact that they have given away the mechanics for free all these years. The...

A note for the length discussion. A Game of Thrones is 720 pages long. The unabridged audio book is 33 hours 46 minutes. A 4-hour podcast is equivalent to a short story. All the scrolling is equivalent to thousands of micro stories. They’re not equivalent to one big book. Or whether you simply...

Started What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool. Only a dozen or so pages in so far but it's a great read. Filled to overflowing with info about the Victorian era and London. Exactly the kind of stuff that can help bring an historical game to life. All the details, all the...

We rarely do burgers. Stopped regularly eating beef years ago. Now it’s chicken burgers or garden burgers. Nothing beats a cordon bleu. Breaded and fried chicken, hopefully with some heat. Sliced ham. Melted swiss cheese. Divine.

Hmm. I haven’t encountered that. Do you think a lighter or simpler version would make it easier to grok?

Downtime does seem like a bit more convoluted version of clocks. Have you done negotiations yet? If so, how was it?

It’s not limited to Reddit. People here do much the same all the time. They somehow developed deeply-held beliefs about games they’ve clearly never played and never read. Especially fun is when those people come in contact with those who have read the game and played it for decades. The phrase...

Lots of old timers have experience with this, or something close to this, with older editions of D&D. Wildly unbalanced combat, combat as fail state, having to track supplies, and plan ahead. Most of the logistics have been stripped away over the years as unfun. Though the presence of clerics...

Not related to the above. LOL. Our experiences on opposite sides of the screen are day an night. I could literally quote something that amounts to “LOL, sucks to be you” and you think that’s empathy and working with people. My gods, the cope.

Definitely spreading to more than just That One.

Damn, man. Don’t hurt your back bending over backwards to kiss every single corporation’s ass.

I mean…yeah.

That’s good. But other people do. It’s easily weaponized. You’d think people would be that reasonable about elfgames, but gamers tend to hold grudges. I see it as they’re entitled to control what they see but are not entitled to control what I see. Hence the not wanting to read a book vs...

Do what you need to for your own sanity, but I really hate the two-way ignore. Someone not wanting to read my posts is cool. But they shouldn’t be able to control what I see and prevent me from accessing my own posts. I think about it like books in a library. You don’t want to read something...

Fantasy where you’re stuck with limited archetypes: death knight, necromancer, druid, shaman, artificer, and swordmage. Fantasy where you’re not limited like that: golem, changeling, and mimic. Investigative games: washed-up PI, reporter, or librarian. Pulp games: two-fisted pilot...

If they don't have modes for both playing as Godzilla and as people trying to stop Godzilla it will be a wildly missed opportunity. They definitely need to have the option for playing other kaiju so you can have a kaiju fight. If you can't do this, why even bother?