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It reminds me of the interview Ben Milton did with Mike Mearls. Mike effectively said you either cater to your existing fans or fire them and try to get new fans. This reads very much like the latter. It just seems so weird. The small but dedicated fanbase of T&T apparently just wasn’t...

According to this article the casualty rate was 33%. Video: Here are the little known 'Tunnel Rat' soldiers of the Vietnam War So going with that figure, 1/3 of all PCs who are specially trained to engage with traps (rogues) simply die or are so wounded as to be removed from action long term...

Exactly that. When I say player skill, that's exactly what I mean. Players solving problems with their ingenuity and brains rather than rolling dice. Interacting with the environment and interrogating the fiction.

Lore matters to players when it matters to their characters. Lore matters to the characters when it has an immediate and direct impact on what they’re doing right now, something that’s coming up very soon, or something that happened in the recent past. No one cares about the history of the...

For me it’ll always come back to Vietnam. That’s how traps work. Whenever someone says, “That’s not how traps work.” I point to Vietnam. If that’s how they worked in Vietnam, that’s how they work in my games. If a trap has a tell, the tell itself is a trap. It’s asymmetrical warfare. That’s...

Yeah, kinda. But it is nice the scene's no longer a sausage party.

It’s such a great bit of mechanics. Auto hit, roll for the specific attack, and multiple attacks per round. Pouring over the charts, most monsters have a fear effect and a push/throw for a bit of battlefield control. So much easier to run Dragonbane monsters.

Realistic in the sense that traps are built to harm, maim, and kill rather than be easily-spotted gameplay elements.

Well, just add it to the long, long list of things they’re wrong about.

Yep. For me it’s mostly about what’s realistic and fun is secondary. To me, old-school gaming with Tucker’s Kobolds and fantasy Vietnam can be incredibly fun. But that’s because it focuses on what’s realistic while ignoring what’s “fair” and the rules. Combat as war and all that. Players using...

It seems like he's very quickly becoming the go-to. Between just him and Kevin Crawford we have an embarrassment of riches. To say nothing of all the other great stuff made by the OSR/NSR scenes. Can't wait for this one.

Seems like it's every. single. day. The enshittification on the web continues.

Yeah. For me Errant isn’t a game to run, it’s a toolbox to take specific tools from. Or used for inspiration. Etc.

Huh. That’s amazing. So the much vaunted “Pathfinder outsold D&D!1!1!” happened when there were literally no new D&D books to buy. Fantastic.

Just finished Mexploitation Cinema by Doyle Greene. If you really love the luchador-horror movies featuring El Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, this is a book for you. It offers some insights and a few behind-the-scenes glimpses that are interesting. It details the state of the Mexican film...

WASD20 reviews the Dragonbane Core Set and specifically the campaign Secret of the Dragon Emperor.

Saying people should play horror games without safety tools is like saying the audience doesn’t get to know which horror movie they’re about to watch only that they’re about to watch one. Could be Saw or Hereditary or Human Centipede or Ring. Or it could be Tucker & Dale vs Evil or Army of...

Ish. System mastery could be considered a player skill, sure. But that’s not the “player skill” the thread’s about. Where do you think the lines should be re: a smart player with a dumb PC or an awkward player with an eloquent PC? That’s the player skill vs character skill the thread is about.

Sorry, I’m not seeing the connection to the topic.