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Don't let your ducks get indoors when you have fed them too much lettuce, they poop frequently and liquidly and it's really hard to clean your carpets from it.

First The Fantasy Trip, then Traveler and Runequest 2e. AD&D came much later.

I agree with everything you say. But I won't write anything about it myself, since the last time I discussed the slavery vs murder morality I got banned :)

If I didn't get killed in that cellar with giant rats I would definitely get rabies or crippling PTSD. And our gaming table would be massacred by 8 goblins with a hound rider. I might survive a short while as a scribe in the Old World, until I got corrupted by chaos, but doubt I could last more...

I usually run pretty sandboxy campaigns where I start with a rough sketch of a first plot arch. This always get changed, since the best creative tool for me as GM is party stupidity, wrong conclusions, paranoia and bad planning. Usually that makes for campaigns with lots of intrigue, roleplaying...

I'm amazed that they manage to keep the quality up. Season 4 was incredible with a great ending and the right resolution/cliffhanger ratio. Looking forward to S5.

I'm an elected far left municipality politician. I view myself as a feminist and try to act accordingly. Rights and representation for oppressed and disempowered groups - LGBT, women, functionality variation, ethnicity etc - is a given. I have enough academic merits in soft social science and...

I don’t see the use of ancestry books when players can have whatever skin and background they want?

PDF draft version of Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion. I don't do kickstarters and have been waiting for this one for a long, long time. SW is my main system and the SFC have everything I wanted and then some. Now there's just the wait for it to get Foundryfied...

Ever since WotC started to move away from traditional racial identity, and the route they have gone since, I just wish WotC would go all the way and just make a long list of linage abilities that cost 1-3 points each. The players have 10 points to pick and choose from the list to make up their...

If one want to run a connected campaign, not just a series of unrelated adventurous evens and locations, there will always be some kind bad guy hierarchy. It may be overt and basic, or covert, conspiratorial, multi branched, organizations within organizations etc etc. But bad guys delegating...

In our real world, late stage capitalism is one of the BBEGs that will end the world. But I don't have Elon Musk chasing me with a greatsword. It's the gazillion of minions in sales, marketing, advertising and share holder value maximizing that is chewing at my soul. So BBEGs that delegate in...

While still playing 5e my players knew that the system made their characters practically immortal no matter what I threw at them, unless their chars went full on suicidal death wish while ODing benzo. And that's ok, it's what the system is made for. If they up that in 5.5 it's only a matter of...

My players are into the roleplaying aspect and they usually create complex and evolving characters. I base my prep on their actions, planning and conclusions, so the chars have space to grow and the plots evolve organically. So there are usually some pretty serious moments in a campaign. But...

Unknown to me here in Sweden, maybe you can get it here on a street food festival or such.

Or you do major setpieces with minions, reinforcements, phases, timers, changing milieau etc etc. Ie fun bossfights. My solution was to skip D&D/obligatory resource depletion, I mostly play Savage Worlds these days.

Just started with Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow from my pile of summer reading. Dense and very good, both Eco and Stephenson are visible in the text. After that it's time for my annual readings of Foucaults Archaeology of Knowledge and The Order of Things, to see if am any smarter this year ;-)

If routine combats are boring for the players and an extra layer of burden for the GM, just get rid of routine combats. "After defeating and evading cultist guard patrols you enter...".

I had Civ, don't know what version, might have been 2,3 or 4. Never played it seriously, mostly on a crappy laptop while my house was undergoing a looong renovation. I usually played it like this: Set difficulty to easy. Do some moderate expansion to get resource bases, then live in peace with...

For things in general I'm pretty unsentimental and have no hoarding tendencies. Except for books. I can't bear getting rid of even a single paperback, and buy way more academia and fiction than I have time to read. I accepted long ago that this means that moving house seriously sucks. Nowadays...