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They've said though that this isn't a VTT - it's to enhance table play. So I don't think it's a goal to let kids play with their friends across the country or the world. If they're across the street they can walk over to each other's house and play in person - which this does seemed to be aimed...

I'm not sure there's much of a conflict here. The article mentions a digital team. Those aren't the guys writing RPG material.

Very cool to bring up an oft-overlooked game. I have this nit to pick though: "There's really nothing in the fiction to demonstrate that the sword Stormbringer is a demon bound into a weapon." Except the climactic scene of the whole series? You know the one, right? The end of the sixth book...

If you want an RPG comparison Age of Sigmar is the D&D 4E of that hobby. It was fanbase-shattering leading to a renewed "Oldhammer" movement, greater interest in existing competitors like Warmachine/Hordes, and a new upstart competitor that's giving long time fans more of what they want in Kings...

There was a year long event known as "The End Times" where the various powers of the old world destroyed each other and in the end the planet was destroyed too. It's not "Warhammer Fantasy Battles" anymore - it's "Age of Sigmar" as the battles take place across the physically and dimensionally...

I've had a physical copy on my shelf for months. It may be new to the UK but it's been out for a while in the US.

The M&M Cosmic Handbook has been out since 2015. How is this a new release?

Add me to the chorus who think it's weird that the biggest company in RPG's seems determined to distance from the biggest con in gaming, the one most strongly tied to RPGs. I wonder what the business reasoning behind that decision could be. Typically you see that it's "not cost effective" but...

I am glad to see the younger category shooting up. I'm in the not-as-younger category as noted above but I'm doing what I can to train the next generation. Apparently some of the rest of the crew is too.

There are some assumptions in this article that I just cannot agree with. I can't tell if it's just a different perspective or lack of research or what but I'll point out a few things: "Rebirth of Science Fantasy" - A wave of science fantasy games? You mean like with Numenera & Shadowrun 5th...

Oh good lord - more conspiracy nonsense. This is not long after the blitz on London, so "spending a night in an air raid shelter" was not an unheard-of thing at the time. As for the numbers, look long enough at any big event and you can find some kind of a match. I mean, you published this post...

We all love tabletop RPGs but most of the people who create them are freelancers and even many fulltime industry professionals often work for less income than they could earn in other industries. For those who aren't fulltime, meaning this is part-time, couldn't they work another job? Shouldn't...

I'm a fan of a lot of your work Cam so this sounds like good news. This however: Magic Vacuum Design Studio: Our Games Don't Suck Sounds more like a tagline for "Broken Vacuum" than "Magic Vacuum"! Good luck on the new venture!

...and not to bury the lead after my earlier posts: Wasteland was an instant classic. I can't tell you how many times my crew used their AK-97's to blow various desert dwellers into "ground round" or make them "explode like a blood sausage". Trying to take out the Scorpitron with a LAW rocket...

Murlynd was the Clint Eastwood-ish character with the six-shooters, not Mordenkainen. There were a lot of crossover adventures with other worlds and games in the early days. People weren't as wound up about playing a certain way and "canon" and that kind of stuff - they did whatever sounded...

Star Frontiers has nothing to do with Gamma World or Barrier Peaks as both were published years before Star Frontiers came out. It doesn't really get into the human background in a ton of detail so you could spin it that way if you wanted to without wrecking the setting but there's nothing...

I do have to wonder how much people are willing to pay for these geek-focused micro-shows. Existing as a YouTube show is one thing, but trying to market a subscription service for them is quite another. As a general statement, people don't like paying for something that used to be free, and a...

Not sure who you're addressing here but John Carmack and I are less than a year apart in age. The article mentions that he started in the third grade. I assure you, that was not "early 90's" for either one of us. By the time you get to the early 90's I expect he did have a whole lot of material...

"While most Dungeon Masters relied on the rule book’s explicitly charted styles of game play, Carmack abandoned the structure to devise elaborate campaigns of his own. After school, he would disappear into his room with a stack of graph paper and chart out his game world." Clearly written by...

I agree with the problems you mention but I can't see myself or my players paying a cover charge to go sit at someone else's table. For RPG's specifically I have seen very few games played in stores over the past 35+ years. My own experience is that RPG's are typically played in someone's...