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I'm thinking particularly of the infamous Sorcerer's Scroll in Dragon 16, reprinted in I think it's the 2nd Best of anthologies. It's just a nasty piece of work that can best be summarized by "these peasants do not understand my genius."

If not the first, Runequest was certainly the first highly popular game to be entirely based around a pure skill system--Traveller is semi-skill based if I remember. And Cthulhu would be the first highly popular game to introduce pure investigation as the major form of gameplay. I believe...

Also, Mr. Gygax was not really a fan of the creativity of the community's creativity. He begrudgingly accepted non-humans, but he got downright vicious about the concept of a critical hit or non-Vancian magic (ie, spell points) and quite nasty to the people experimenting with them.

I can. It was my character in a con game at Origins 82. I was dropped into a room and there was a round object on the ceiling. It was obviously the way out. I said I tried to move it. Left right. They say it won't budge. Push, pull? It won't move. It really won't move left or right? No. Dead...

And no deminimis exclusion.

They keep implying that the project started before the Bledshaws were revealed to be virulent racists in 2020. But they never actually say so. And, at that time, they said that the Jaquays properties were the last things they would be working on with Judge's Guild. If there was a contract...

FWIW on Facebook, Aaron Bledshaw claims that they aren't getting money from Frog God nor are they getting accurate accounting of sales. Given how truthful I've found the Bledshaws to be over the last decade, I thought it prudent to send that to Frog God and let them know.

Speaking for myself, one of the reasons I gravitated towards DCC is that it didn't have the same noxious vibe as a lot of the OSR and I think that was a significant part of their brand. Was. Past tense.

As an alternative in need of a definitive edition, I would nominate the City Books from Flying Buffalo. They did Grimtooths, so that would be an obvious option. They're not as well know in nostalgic circles, but they're probably ten times as useful at the table because very few of us would...

As a backer, from how the kickstarter went down over time, I do not think this was simple incompetence.

The big thing is that it was the first city module ever. Same thing for Tegel Manor which was the first spooky haunted house kind of scenario. And at the time, this was a 100 page book competing with 16 page modules from TSR. It was pretty impressive for the time just for the sheer volume of...

My uncle and father fought in the war. I think of all the BS that Bledshaw spewed, the bit about Gen. Eisenhower being part of some Jewish conspiracy and intentionally getting white soldiers killed pissed me off more than anything.

Correct. And they pushed people in the Kickstarter updates to buy the Frog God stuff so they could finish it. For anyone that doesn't remember exactly how bad the Bledshaws are, here's a reminder if you can stomach it.

If they used it to refund us, that would be fine. But finish their version? Yeah, good luck with that. And at this point, I have no interest in receiving anything from Judge's Guild other than a refund.

I really want to see something from Goodman. I'm a little shocked they would release any news about this without a thorough explanation. They can't be that oblivious to the optics, can they? And the explanation better be good because "well we thought you'd forget" is not going to do it for me...

I'm sorry, but that's just not true. The only exclusivity requirement is to join the Kindle Unlimited lending library and for that, you are paid paid by the page-read at a rate they set, but your book remains on sale for regular purchase at a price that you are fully in control of. The...

Amazon KDP pays 35% for ebooks retailed priced under $2.99 (to prevent a race to the bottom) and 70% for ebooks $2.99 or over.

I'd guess that Foundry tends to appeal to more hardcore gamers with roll20 having a much lower barrier to entry and more friendly to casual gamers. And I'd guess posting on a message board about RPGs probably also appeals to people who are more hardcore than average. Also, I'm a Foundry user and...

Two more big ones. It's free. Sure, you need a sub if you want to do fog of war and that stuff, but to start it's free. And the one nobody gives it credit for is the search engine for open spots in games. On a whim, when the Call of Cthulhu kickstarter arrived, I searched for a game on roll20...

I think buying stuff is the plan, but having bought the Free League bundle, the pre-made stuff is pretty dialed in. For example, the Forbidden Lands system is just splash screens. There's no text of the adventure, no tactical maps, and no NPCs set up. Overall, I find that the poor UI design in...