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Exactly. The goal is not to "win" some kind of market share race, unless you follow the worst tendencies of capitalist thinking. I'm totally happy if SJGames continues to work on GURPS in a sustainable way without necessarily chasing "growth". As long as they're making enough money to pay...

Yep as a GM I really love it, but to me that's actually a subset of the more general task of taking care of the game world. That is: while the PCs are doing their thing, the world (including the NPCs in it) don't stay idle, waiting for the players to come interact with them. Regardless of what...

GURPS is very much alive as far as I'm concerned (I play it, I know others who play it, and there has been new stuff being released for it every month for years), but it definitely is a "niche" thing. Market share is different from being moribund or not. That said, I'm not surprised TFT outsold...

Wind Words is running a talent contest, "Glorantha Has Talent?"! We are looking for short audio performances, like Gloranthan jokes, songs, spoken myths, or stories... send us your work and maybe win some prizes, such as some RuneQuest supplement, or some items from the Jonstown Compendium (all...

Episode 6 of Wind Words is finally out! In this episode, we have a few notable announcements and changes: a Gloranthan talent show, a newsletter, and a news & rumours section with a slightly different format as a result. Later, we go back on the road in Prax, catching up where we had last left...

No worries, I wasn't that clear in my original message. And it's a pretty interesting topic to me anyway -- I'm still developing my opinions on this, so discussing it help me out too.

RPGs and board games are totally different yeah -- I was just saying that my approach for deciding if I want to pick this new game I heard about are very similar. In my experience, the vast majority of board games we play in my social circles are invariably brought by someone who has already...

Depending on your resources, extra rules on an existing system or a modified OGL ruleset might be vastly less work than making a new system from scratch. But if you have the time and energy and playtesting resources, yeah, go crazy. What kind of mechanics in particular would this new system...

My answer to the OP is really "I don't care much about the system": I'm interested or not in a game based on what the game is about, who wrote it, what setting it's in, what kind of character you play, etc... to some degree, I might care about the system in terms of "what kind of system is it"...

In person, our weekly game was around 4 hours. Since the pandemic, our online games have been more like 3 hours.

After some technical problems and delays, our intrepid explorers are finally back outside, moving stealthily through the hills. Well, as stealthy as you can move with two dozen cattle... because it's time to participate in some cattle raiding! Tune in to windwords.fm, and enjoy a look at the...

This month, as we enter the capital of the Lunar Empire, we are joined by a team of professional historians. Nick Brooke, Mike Hagen, and Chris Gidlow help us make sense of the most (supposedly?) wonderful city in Glorantha, as described in their latest book, “A Rough Guide To Glamour”. They...

Soaring on the Winds of Imagination, our intrepid explorers swoop down following the trail of one of the iconic explorers of Glorantha, an Issaries merchant from Dragon Pass or Kethaela braving the chaparral which is home to the Beast Riders of Waha's Covenant. Looking at some of the details of...

If you're not attracted to Glorantha, you might want to pass... the game is 100% tied to the setting. If you're willing to give it another chance, however, it may pay off because I think they did a good job with the setting introduction, and how the character creation starts with rolling your...

The new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha version. I really like a lot of things they tried to do (and the book is quite gorgeous), but it tends to be a bit unfinished when you look at the details. Nothing that can't be fixed with some errata and a couple house rules, though. I have never...

I don't play D&D except very very occasionally (I ran a few adventures for my kid and his friends before they had one kid step up to DMing, and before that the last time must have been 10 years ago!). These days I play CoC and Delta Green. I'm starting the WFRP 4e Starter Set scenario tomorrow...

Our intrepid explorers from episode one have entered a new course full of quicksand, dodging f-bombs and mutual throttling, to bring you the second attempt at sharing our thoughts on playing in or learning about Glorantha! Find yourself in one of the most iconic places to set off into...

Did you ever think your commute could have more RuneQuest or HeroQuest news in it? Did you ever wish you could cook dinner while listening to theories about Gloranthan world-building? Did you ever go to the gym and figure you could make it less painful by having some soothing multi-culturally...

Not even counting the people who actually have a 7 year old kid running around the gaming table making horrendous noises from a trumpet :D (yes, many of us game with kids around at least occasionally)