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Adding one to the OP. Cannot recommend enough the book Morbidly Curious by Coltan Scrivner, PhD. Fantastic book that goes over the science of horror. Great read for any fan of horror and could be useful for any horror referee.

LOL. Worst troll ever.

Just finished Morbidly Curious. Absolutely held up from start to finish. Utterly fascinating book. If you're even remotely interested in or curious about horror, read this book. It's a quick read. Only 272 pages in print and it took me a little more than 5 hours to read as an ebook. It just took...

There’s a solution for that. You don’t need all the complex rules mechanics to emulate physics. Let the referee decide. With a lifetime of experience most of us have a fairly well developed sense of the real world and how things work. We don’t have an intuitive sense of the maths, but we can...

What kind of balance are you after? Mechanical balance between PCs? That’s dead simple. Most rules light games have it built in. Hell, even D&D 4E managed it, mostly. Mechanical balance between the PCs and monsters? Again, dead simple. Rules light games and 4E have you covered. Spotlight...

I watched the video. Really hoping your players enjoy Dragonbane. I’m selfishly hoping for more Dragonbane content from you.

Sigh. On a long enough timeline every thread devolves into a Star Wars thread.

My first concert was the Sextasy Ball Tour with Lords of Acid and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. That was a fantastic concert.

Referees often say to players “the answer’s not on your character sheet.” A possible corollary to that for referees is “the answer’s not in the rulebook.”

Jokes on you. I’m into it.

Not a Shadowdark referee, yet. But long-time OSR/NSR referee and player. The legalistic answer is there’s nothing in the book about needing to see your target generally, nor is there anything in the spell specifically. So “go for it” is a perfectly fine answer. The section on darkness suggests...

Unfortunately it was true in my D&D group back-in-the-day. They were and still are the D&D is serious business types and they consider any gonzo elements (aka the fun stuff) to be dumb. Anything outside the boringly ordinary is suspect. Thankfully that seems to be the minority opinion in the...

The gonzo elements are definitely there in the OSR. They’re not hard to find at all. I think most people in the scene realize the presence of gonzo in some foundational games/settings does not make it definitional to old-school gaming as a whole.

“If someone asks if you’re a god you say yes!” “Hang on lady, we go for a ride.” “I hate Illinois Nazis.” “It’s not a tumah.” “Oh hidy-ho officer, we’ve had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all...

Random generators. Lots and lots of random generators. I’d rather take an hour creating a good random generator that will spit out thousands or millions of ideas than meticulously crafting one thing with that same hour of time. Sparks to get the creative juices flowing and riffing on things in...

Or, better yet, “Okay your PC is dead. Please gather your stuff and leave immediately.” I cannot stand whiny players who’re bad sports. If you can’t be bothered to at least try to make the best of bad die rolls then you have no place at the table. The dice will frequently go against you. If your...

Horror movies do great. You’d be at cross purposes with horror and D&D. Just like in the recent setting and module. In the last year and into the next we will have Sinners, Dracula, and Nosferatu. Or, better yet, here’s a list of newer vampire movies...

Very cool.

This is the software you want to put in charge of everything? LOL.