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I've bounced hard off Mongoose's Traveller. I loved the character creation, I loved the setting and I enjoyed many core systems like the 2d6 and skill system. But some of the rules were mind-blowingly unusable. I bounced it off with experienced players to see if I was crazy or interpreting the...

I would agree, but paradoxically the games that offer debt as a main motivator (Traveller, Into the Odd) have let to campaigns with incredible momentum. Since trying it, I've started quite a few campaigns in other systems with debt.

That's exactly one of my issues. That works perfectly fine with one-shots. Relatively ordinary but skilled individuals decide to risk it, venture into a dungeon and comes out with life-changing money. But in a longer campaign, that hardly works. At least for my table. I've always tried to...

So, I just read this blogpost by Justin Alexander. This is one of my pet peeves in games. The challenges of having money make sense. My personal preference is in more grounded, gritty campaigns. Often street-level. Having money matter is important to me and I've never followed the...

By a favorite people, do you mean whatever weapon players pick at character creation and then proceed to never stop using until they find a magic weapon? Because I never had a game where that weapon was interesting or "favorite" in any way. Legendary weapons and magic weapons can have the perk...

That's right! Thank you for the correction. I think it would mesh well. Your weapons and armor have a quality. It could be as simple as having a crit fail reduce the quality, or receiving a critical hit for an armor. When it's at 0 quality it's broken. It can be repaired. You might find...

I enjoyed Forbidden Lands rules for that. If I recall, every weapon has a base quality. And as you build your pools, whenever some fails happen (not getting one success + having an equipment die be on a 1) your item loses quality. I've been wanting to make something similar for D&Desque games.

Skeleton Code Machine is a fantastic active blog with lots of exploration of game design in board games and TTRPG. It gets my mind running at my work all the time. Prismatic Wasteland is kind of a classic OSR blog to follow. Cited very often. I like the Vaults of Vaarn blog. It's specifically...

They categorize it as science-fiction because there's spaceships.

I don't think it's that unlikely. The stores available already do that. Just having a store obtaining a bunch of zines or books at a reduced price and then shipping them for free (or a much lower rate) makes a world of difference. And I understanding what you're saying. But the examples you're...

It's not because I personally want the products cheaper. It's because there's a lack of offer in canadian-friendly stores. It's difficult for us to source books at an appropriate price, canadian. If it was just from me, I'd just do a few hours of overtime and buy the products.

I'm not an expert, I read a handful of his books years ago but I'm not into the world "cosmere". That really expanded after I stopped reading. But different book series have different magic systems. The most notable example I think the Mistborn series where some people have a gift where they...

I am! And I love Ratti Incantati. But they have a rather limited amount of product (that that they don't have a lot, but there's a limited number of products they can handle) and they tend not to stock most of the products I'm interested in. They also seem to be spreading to other things like...

I agree. I hate it. It's so bad in Magic the Gathering. When it started it wasn't so bad, it felt like it would be one set. I saw some D&D and Tolkien. That's kind of a logical crossover. I don't mind a special event. But there's been so many cards printed in so many franchises (Transformers...

So one thing that I realized over the last few years is that it kind of sucks to buy RPG products in Canada. For the large games, it's not an issue. D&D, Pathfinder, Free League go through large-scale established distributors and make it to physical stores. You go to the store, there's price...

That part is unclear. I'm still holding my breath.

I've been lucky, all my Kickstarters but two ended up well. The first well is a video game I backed in 2019. They said it would come out in 2021. It's seems to be nowhere near finished, and I have six years of bi-annual updates where they say "we're sorry for being silent for six month, we'll...

Of course. But I do think roleplaying games lean more easily into some type of stories. There's a reason why there's so much action and violence in most games. You could absolutely do a roleplaying about a romance, or a familial drama or managing a business. But it's clearly very design goals...

There's so much... But the ones that come to mind are: The One Ring 2E Orbital Blues Ultraviolet Grasslands I really want to run them. On paper, they seem to be really good games and I really enjoyed reading the books. But, oh boy, I think 70% of my collection of games are in that category.

I'm a fan of Cyberpunk in general (both the themes it explores, and the more superficial aesthetics that emerged out of the genre over time). But one of my issue with the genre in a social setting is the gap there is between people liking the aesthetic and the different fantasies to explore...