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As far as I know there are only three setting books. Tal’Dorei, published by Green Ronin. Out-of-print and wildly expensive on the secondary market. The book was originally published only two months before the actual play campaign finished, so it covered most of the campaign and could rely on...

Sure. I am not one of them. To me, the two italicized questions are all that matter. I have shelves filled with games that me and maybe a dozen other people world wide are interested in playing. I don’t need any more RPG books that will only ever collect dust.

Yep. Which also seems to render the question moot. Anyone wanting that novelty can already get it by looking at any one of the thousands of other RPGs. If something innovative but close to D&D is your jam, the OSR/NSR scenes have you well and truly covered. To say nothing of the mountain of...

Same. That it was a pure B/X clone was the draw. I like the optional AD&D stuff that’s ported in with Advanced, but making that core and discontinuing the pure B/X clone removes the reason OSE even exists.

This will be the interesting bit. If that’s the case they will need to come up with a new license or anyone publishing for their “new” game will be taking a risk.

Search the net for “five-room dungeons” and “one-page dungeons.” You’ll find piles of them.

It really is a weird one. “If the designers had telepathy and tailor made the game specifically for you and all your preferences to the letter to perfectly match your tastes, would you play it?” The only real answer is: “Yes, of course.”

It’s incredibly hard to satirize…all this. Any exaggeration you make today, no matter how wild, will be literally true next week. Also, 90% of everything is crap.

Someone somewhere doesn't love the thing you love as much as you love it, therefore you're going to endlessly argue every...single...point until the heat death of the universe is not the valorous and righteous position you seem to think it is. Someone somewhere not loving the thing you love...

Just popping back in to say that no, Taliesin hasn't played a lot of Call of Cthulhu. At least that's what he says at the start of the Call of Cthulhu one-shot he ran a few years ago. I had no interest in Critical Role until I watched that one shot. Taliesin's grasp of the genre and the...

Here's a partial list of pulp RPGs, supplements, and resources. 3 2 1 Action. Acthtung! Cthulhu. Adventure! Amazing Adventures. Atomic Robo RPG. Broken Compass. Daredevils. Daring Tales of Adventure. Daring Tales of the Space Lanes. Dicey Tales. Dime Heroes. Everyday Heroes. Fate Accelerated...

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same old, tired arguments about the style of play, genre, and time period. There are plenty of other threads to hate on games and play styles you don’t like. One of my all-time favorite genres is pulp adventure. Instead of doing a thread about...

I mean…Eberron. Robots. Lightning-powered trains. Airships. Etc. AC11. Book of Wondrous Inventions. A book filled with half-assed inventions like a submarine with windows. Various areas of Mystara / Known World / Hollow World have advanced technology. There’s crashed spaceships and an...

I’m not sure the 2-1/2-year-olds running around most fandoms would accept that the 4-year-olds are inherently “more of a fan” of the thing. Some of the conversations certainly reminds me of when my kid was a toddler though.

It never ceases to amaze me just how toxic some fandoms are. There's a lot of fantastic stories out there to enjoy but the moment you want to talk to other humans about any of that stuff...wow.

Anyone track down the source for that yet? I know I saw it but I can't seem to find it again. Be great to go from the actual video instead of memory. Times change. Perkins and Crawford were recent additions to their team. Prior to that it was all on Matt to do the heavy lifting despite having...

Ah. The toxic positivity of the fandom spreads. What joy. The Precious is perfect. Every aspect and permutation is perfect. You are not a real fan unless you think it perfect.

Still reading, but ever so slowly in fits and starts. A house full of kittens in not conducive to my ADHD-addled brain being able to concentrate. Surprise. Also reading a few books that would elicit red text just by mentioning the titles. In a now ironic twist, I started reading Gothic: A Very...

One of my many, many favorite aspects of OSR/NSR games is the notion of combat as a fail state. Your goal is to avoid combat as much as possible because it’s deadly. Think your way around or out of combat. Win the fight before it starts. Etc. So are there any OSR/NSR games out there that take...

Besides the already mentioned Monster Overhaul, I prefer monster books to be general-audience readers instead of game books. Books on myths, monsters, ghosts, weird creatures, cryptids, etc. I prefer monster stats to be easily done on a page, bookmark, or business card a la Blog of Holding’s...