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They offered me the option when sending the review copy and I decided DCC felt like a better fit for the premise. I'm glad they offer it though.

One of the most fascinating things to come out of the OSR for me is the concept of “the funnel”. These adventures encourage players to make multiple low-level characters that are meant to be folded, stapled and generally maligned by the adventure. It’s a tribute to the lethality of older...

I think its a shift away from book stores to game stories that helped this trend. People didn;t liked boxed sets because you couldn't browse them but now with review sites and unboxing videos you don't have to. I also think manufacturers like them because they are harder to pirate. Yes, these...

I think it's overall better quality. But as @eyeheartawk says, the contents are the same, so if you already have this, you don't need to upgrade unless the components were really bugging you.

In case you haven’t noticed we are in something of a boxed set Renaissance. Sure, they call them Starter Sets these days, but a lot of companies are reviving the tradition of peeling off the plastics and cracking open a few evenings worth of roleplaying. One of the first boxed sets that really...

The latest Dungeons & Dragons setting is upon us. Review copies of Spelljammer: Adventures In Space hit my front door, giving me something to page through during the dog days of August. I wanted to discuss some of the things I really enjoyed in the book(s) while trying to stay spoiler free as...

In my Vampire: The Masquerade games, The Sabbat always functioned best as antagonists. Even as they grew from the whispered boogeymen of the first edition to the dark mirror image of the Camarilla as presented in Vampire Revised, I didn’t have much interest in ever running a full Sabbat game...

Dungeons & Dragons is having another banner year as part of pop culture. The Internet has been abuzz arguing about the trailer for the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trailer. The relationship with Stranger Things made Vecna a household name. I was at San Diego Comic Con last weekend and...

Fantasy gaming tends to bounce between two poles: fantasy epics like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter and gritty sword and sorcery stories like the Conan stories and The Grey Mouser series. Swords of the Serpentine, from designers Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner, is on the sword and sorcery side...

One of the sad throughlines of the book is how TSR keeps finding amazing creatives, treats them like crap despite the popularity of their work, screws them over for the sake of a buck and then just stumbles across the next one.

OA isn't that surprising. It was the 80s and Japanese (and related) stuff was HOT.

I might, though it will probably have a lot of the same content as his Gen Con seminars. I remember him discussing something about an official audiobook but I don't know if that went anywhere.

One of the differences between Reckoning and Vigil is that the hunter orgs in H5 are portrayed as antagonists. Yes, monsters are scary, but so is Second Inquisition. There's kind of that private eye-police tension there where the PCs get rousted by the Arcanum for busting up a sorcerer's nest or...

Ironically, it's now the back cover of the book and has been heavily photoshopped.

During the interviews Justin Achilli did for Hunter, he mentioned that he expects Touchstones, Tenets and Convictions to be in each WoD5 game. He suggested that n some form or another, modified for specific games. For example, one of the Convictions every player might have in Werewolf is...