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No, but from a fan perspective, something far worse: both Star Wars and L5R are not getting good support. Couple that to the US distributor going bankrupt... and tariffs... and getting the one new L5R book is worse than getting teeth pulled, especially given that most of my local dentists have 6...

Retreater, a serious question: do your players already play any other OSR or genuine Old School games? If so, are they D&D mechanics? (OE, Holmes Basic, BX/BECMI/Cyclo, EG, OSE, DCC, S&W, AS&SOH, etc) The mechanical differences of C&C for the old school player are signifcant, even as it's not...

Tempting me to dig out my axe and get an FX box... an inheritance from a friend's dad. (Friend in question is not musically inclined.)

As a GM, yes, mostly to distinguish various NPCs in a scene with multiple. As a player, accents and pacing changes in character, so long as no one complains.

Banished? Not Dead? Returns when???

Sun Daggerheart Skeletons aplenty, Spectres many, Treasures!

Last week I got the official Daggerheart dice set. It's a green and purple set, d4, d6, d8, d10, d10×10, d12, and d20, plus a clear with purple haze and a clear with green haze d12. The clear d12s and the d20 have the daggerheart logo on the highest face. The green and purple d12 does NOT have...

My current dungeon has a very schematic Environment: Umbral Concentration Tier Ⅱ. Terrain difficulty 10 - the complex was professionally engineered, and those original engineers are still maintaining it in their unlife. Magic difficulty 18 Restless Dead: the dead rise automatically as "fresh...

That it's not yet public domain hasn't stopped many. Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea being the key exemplar, but not the only OSR game in the space, using the setting. The trademark, however, is still current, so if you want the name Conan on the cover, you still will need a...

The UK, until 1974, used to use 1 Billion as 1 million million, ie, 1e12, while the US has always used 1000 million (1e9) as a billion. Many older news agencies avoid using Billion as part of their style manuals because of the issue of "which billion"... tho' most of the anglophone world is...

And Action, action, action! Much of which is not enemies. Environments are important, and good enemies are, too. If one can pull it off, the Villain Monoguing to his minion as an interlude is a very pulpy thing.

I've used Savage Worlds for Deadlands, and it felt VERY pulpy. de-pulping SW looks to be a fool's errand. I also played Spirit of the Century (and not as the GM!) and it was also a great pulp feel. Complete with over the top villain on a bee theme. And I was a wall crawler in a trench coat...

Tables aplenty in all the editions I have three - red cover FGU edition, another that I can't check because it's burried, and Rebirth which asserts itself as 4th edition. I know a lot of SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) folk who swear by it, and a another few who swear at it. Note that...

I've played at tables where it does. Maintaining a consistent faux accent in play was rewarded by that GM with a +1 on your to-hits. Another GM, in AL play, gave inspiration for voices and costumes... I give extra XP for non-organized-play for good RP, which can include picking an accent or...

Oldest players I've played with were in their 60's at the time. I have one acquaintance who was still at D&D AL nights in his early 70's. But the 70's are the mean and median life span of US males... so, no surprise. And some of the first wave of the mid-70's games were in the 20-40 range, many...

There was a continental-level organized play of The Masquerade, the Vampire LARP rules, under the name The Camarilla. it was sponsored by, then spun off from, WWG. It controlled the official tournaments, and revisions of the rules. Don't have a clue if it still exists, but friends of mine were...

Which goes to sample selection issues. Most of the groups I've played in or run for, D&D is, minute by minute, mostly combat roughly 70/30. My daggerheart play is about the 60/40, but the cycle is faster than in D&D, and there's more RP mid-combat. The thing with the most rules will be the...

Sometimes. Minis wargames, if it's skirmish scale, yes. For me, the division between RPG and skirmish minis game is just one of whether there is provision for non-combat actions in the rules. And I can see doing RP with WH40K:RT... and have done so with Car Wars, the one time I played Gaslands...

The term "roleplaying game" has not been firmly tied to actual roleplay in the theatrical sense since it came out - None of the pre 1980 games I have to hand use it. There have been, since that time frame, multiple kinds of play. There were and are those for whom,,, it is a minis wargame with...

Or pick a weapon with your casting mod and not have to worry about it.