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Wow. The pointlessly spiky pettiness knows no bounds.

Are you talking about 6 to 9 months of weekly sessions? So 24 to 36 sessions total? Those must be some wildly zoomed-in, not-much-happening sessions, for Alien. At that point, where's the horror? I get that you can sort of Traveller it up with Alien, and that the game (at least the current...

Pretty notable that, despite the handwringing over the new edition's timing, the Kickstarter is about to close at over $2.3M. Also interesting, imo, given that the Alien RPG isn't exactly known for supporting long campaigns. So this likely isn't a bunch of people who've decided they're only...

And so ends another tale of woe—nothing learned, nothing gained, but at least we heard about some people experiencing varying degrees and flavors of a bad time.

I get how harsh this sounds, but I think it needs to be said: There's no dealing with these issues without getting on the same page with your wife. Maybe you can sort things out with the neighbor and the other two, but unless you come to an understanding with her, I don't see how you proceed...

Nope, they already had it right. It was Larry Elmore. You can tell it's not Bradstreet because it's not a traced photo of a try-hard mugging straight into the camera.

That choice of system was the main reason I never actually ran Dark Conspiracy back in the day. So, on balance, I'm good with Mongoose getting the license instead.

The term "hit movie" is just an industry thing, almost solely about first-run profits. Nobody calls movies a "critical hit." Critically acclaimed, critical darling, those are things, but in a different lane. "Hit movie" just isn't something that's really in the eye of the beholder or up for...

My only beef with this campaign is that the starter set is just expanding Hadley's Hope. Pretty boring adventure right there, that's not even interesting from a fan-service perspective. You know what happened to the colonists, ultimately, so filling in those gaps always seemed pointless to me...

Yeah it was a bona fide hit. I thought it was mostly bad, and reviews were mixed, but that has nothing to do with the financials—so no need to debate anyone about that part.

I'm intrigued to see how Venture's Dogs-in-the-Vineyard-inspired mechanics shake out. It also seems like an interesting twist on FitD, largely getting rid of Resist rolls.

LIEF moves by instinct, recoiling from the Langolier. How did it get here, of all places? How is Acamar and its hordes everywhere, even now, even in defeat? The Langolier is still moving, flowing forward as Lief pulls away. But something's wrong. Something's wrong. Lief feels eyes on him...

LIEF takes off his hat and moves into the dim light, closer to the Crep and its stench. He shows the raised brand on his forehead—the sun-bright sign of Pelor. "I don't understand the rules of this. What to do, what not to do. I don't even know if I have a choice in any of it. Or how to make...

LIEF holds his hands up as he weaves through the crowd, making for the shifters lying near one wall of the cave, too weak to even open their eyes. One of the Blessed of the Elect—a born-and-trained fighter, like him—steps into his path. Lief slips around him in a dancing blur, his boots of the...

LIEF breathes some warmth into his hands, then pulls his gloves tight against his fingers until the claws jut through. He watches the dire leopard for a bit, in no rush to head it off. He might need the Creep, but that doesn't mean he likes the damn thing. Maybe they'll take a few pieces out of...

Today it can kinda seem like there's a ton of weird west out there, but back then, between original Deadlands and the Joe Lansdale's Jonah Hex revival, it really felt like we were seeing a new genre invented out of whole cloth. And I know the Dark Tower was a thing before that, but I think...

I fell in love with this setting and premise after playing a one-shot of XCC. I had a cockamamie scheme to do a side-quest mini-campaign of it during a Spire campaign I was running, using a hack someone put together of Homebrew World. Sadly, it never worked out.

World Champ makes some really cool stuff, that I just assume I'm too old to fully click with.

Yeah, Underground is in many ways the Marshal Law RPG. But the power levels are a bit lower, and there's an emphasis on characters doing things to help their community, or the world, in an authoritarian, corporate-captured America. It's got the same sort of satirical take as that comic, but sort...

Spire really is an incredible setting. After running a campaign of it I don't want to engage with that system again, but it's such a fun world for a game—especially if you take the game's advice and feel free to not only change, but break the setting. Right now I'm running a campaign using the...