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I understand there was a draft Gumshoe game titled "Tales of the Quaesitores" or some such. But I've never seen any indication that it progressed much beyond an interesting concept.

2 reasons: Co & Nan.

A mage is way more powerful than a normal person in the setting, too.

Not starting at 1st level & troupe play are part of the same feature of Ars Magica - that players are encouraged to make up to three PCs of varying power levels: the mage, a companion who is still better/more unique than the average schmuck, and the average schmuck. So you may play one session...

We were lucky in the Triangle to have only one game store close up during Covid; there are still 3 major ones (one of which just opened a second location). In comparison, during the last recession we lost 2 big players.

One of the problems with the stuff that came out ~10 years ago (Targets of Opportunity, which gets included at $330,000) is that the zeitgeist of '90s Delta Green had largely subsided. It will be interesting to see that stuff side-by-side with contemporary material. The scenario Convergence...

Thanks for this! I'm surprised to have only backed 2 of these, although I have 13 days to back Delta Green. Shout out to EN World, whose Kickstarter cleared £53,786!

'80 or '81, the tail end of grade school. If anyone has read The Monsters Know What They're Doing, I had the exact same reaction to the review of D&D in Games magazine. There was no way a game could do all the stuff that the reviewer mentioned! But once I played with some friends - the earliest...

My brothers and I bought dad the Holmes box set but ended up using it more often than he did. For myself, it was either Dungeon Geomorphs or a Runequest adventure that confused the hell out of me.

=681982&hash=a09c152e752019ab69a2f3fceb84b841']Attach files I have a soft spot for Graham Greene in Maverick. Watching the scene again I didn't realize he sounds as Canadian as the McKenzies.

I've also heard that "Kemo Sabe" was similar enough to "que no sabe" that a lot of Spanish speakers think Tonto is insulting him back.

I think there's a noticeable undercurrent of the West as the place where the bad things of colonialism/Old World society cannot yet reach. If you focus on that, you can begin to minimize some of the genre's pernicious effects. So you have PCs in the region avoiding those who would oppress them...

Night's Black Agents uses 4 categories for vampire origin: Supernatural, Damned, Mutant, Alien.

For a few years I lived an hour away from Milwaukee while Gen Con was there, but lacked the time to game - so it never occurred to me to attend (during the dame period, I ignored my friend telling me how great this new Magic the Gathering game was for about 6 months).

I just like the name of the stenographer.

WotC launched the OGL expecting that they would always lead the market with hard copies of big, expensive core books, and could leave the smaller stuff to other publishers. I believe they were surprised that it became so easy and cheap for these other publishers to create material - especially...

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There is also a question of where player choice gets defined. If the DM is just offering a series of fights with little or nothing connecting them, players are still controlling their characters in combat - and as that's a great deal of what D&D has to offer, it's hard to say that the players...

DMs usually get accused of railroading retroactively, after doing something a player dislikes, so there is an element of "it's not bad if it's fun" involved. And there are times a group of players doesn't take the initiative - or cedes it to the DM altogether. So DMs should be prepared to take...

A game in the Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu universe where the PCs are in South America in 1940. Beginning with the fallout of the Battle of the River Plate in Buenos Aires, which was the sixth largest city in the world at the time (and whose university happens to hold a copy of the Necronomicon).