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I guess this is mostly a "me too" post. The humorous and now almost cliché aspects of online meetings (silence, then everyone talking over each other, followed by everyone stopping, then you firsts, then more stuff, then 'you're on mute', then...) can also rear their head to get in the way of...

+1 for anything Avro Arrow related! :) Much less exciting, but one I remember driving by in the days of yore: Sculpture of the Big Apple · 262 Orchard Rd, Colborne, ON K0K 1S0, Canada :)

Funnily enough, I'm now sitting near Lake Ontario, here for the holidays. :D Ah yes! I have a copy bought back in the day. Haven't read it in ages, when I get back it could be fun to give it a look through again.

I might be able to take a gander through it, though not run it and not until February timeframe, alas...

From a couple of games: Undead tug-of-war. Halfling is rope. Offered name to fae. Mistake?

I vividly remember that day when we were sitting in a classroom for our lunchtime D&D game as the DM pulled out the Dragon magazine to read that exact question/answer to us. Cue our shock/amazement/slight disbelief, as we had all been pronouncing it to rhyme with snow as, indeed, rhyming with...

Perhaps not, but it's still a non-DnD TSR game that I would like to see recreated. :)

Add my vote for Top Secret! As well as my agreement that the 'revised' TS released a few years ago was not fabulous. I Kickstarted it and got the shiny boxed set, but while the rules had one nifty concept in them (the unified target number ratcheting up and down as mission friction accumulates...

I grew up in Bowmanville. :) Nothing too big or exciting there that might be part of an RPG, except maybe the St Mary's cement company with it's huge vertical furnace (looking all the like a rocket launch gantry) along with its equally huge (though in depth) blasting pit for limestone, as well...

Setting something in the neighbouring town from my own hometown? With a section on the OC? Consider my interest piqued! :) (And it's also close to not just one but two nuke plants... )

Putting aside Catalyst's past Kickstarter performance, I downloaded the quickstart rules and gave them a read through. Overall, colour me not that impressed. The system to me seems at the same time bland, inelegant, and sometimes convoluted all for not much benefit. Plus it has no narrative...

Oh, I'll have to dive into this when I get home. Looks like they ended up going the Lions-only route. And different books for either the classic series or the remake, huh...

I have something like 25 linear feet of RPG books on my shelves at home, and I can't see myself parting with any of it anytime soon. At the same time, I've hardly added anything to those shelves in over a decade. Nearly everything I get nowadays is in PDF format. Harder to curl up on the...

As someone who works in a creative industry, I get the fraughtness and potentials for generative AI. Especially given it's speed -- it took ages for refrigerators to displace ice cutters, or photography to supplant many portrait painters, while gen AI is both developing rapidly and instantly...

This is something that has fascinated/amused me about this tempest in a teapot from the mild disclaimer noted at the front of this huge celebratory book of reprints. When WB released their Loony Tunes with their disclaimer prefix, I saw a lot of lauding and applauding. "Yes, let's not burry...

Great news! They didn't, and it wasn't an attack (smug or otherwise) on anyone. We can put those concerns to rest now. Fortunate too, because then I'd have to question WotC's attack strategy around this destroying Gygaxian legacy thing. Because putting out a 576 page book (Tome? At what page...

Sigh. Beyond the eyeroll-y ness of how just factually inaccurate his false outrage is (0.18% of the book that lavishly reproduces the original works of Gygax et al gently mentions that some of it may be discriminatory), it's also late. Passé. This book (and the brouhaha that happened on...

I must be too much of that time/era... none really jump out as being specific, just expected... :D

And the fact that in the span of 3 posts they call it both ONG publishing and ONB publishing I'd say doubly confirms it. Competence, it is not them.

Our group has lots of experience with classless systems, so not necessary for us in the least. :) Yes, they are very helpful to illustrate the type/style of game this is and the activities the PCs are expected to be pursuing and how. And thus this provides another layer of world building...