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It depends entirely on the individual table's preferences, and and that's all I have to say on the subject.

Never trust a man who doesn't make a "vroom, vroom" noise while moving when they've got the race car. There's something not quite right there.

No experience with the current edition, but the original Car Wars was more than just a armed vehicles fighting each other, something that became increasing clear as stuff came out for the game encouraging moving beyond the arena. You could just use it for minimal context fights, but there was a...

Sentinel Comics RPG: Smacked robot with folding chair.

It's a lovely idea, but I can't think of many things less like a druid than a mason. Trees, bricks, they just don't get along. Now, if we're talking Adepts of the Forbidden Order of North Polar Jupiter, there you've got a whole 77 ranks to progress through, complete with assassination being...

I started out in the late 70's and played some form of D&D or another steadily (but not exclusively) until about 1983, took a multi-year break, then resumed when Spelljammer came out, which let a few years of dabbling in the settings that flooded out under 2e AD&D as TSR was dying. Was an early...

I'd say it goes well beyond annoying if they just barely make their lowball figure and it winds causing quality issues, delaying publication, or worse results in a total failure to deliver. Really risking disaster if you set that figure too low and people don't jump on it in droves.

Outside of one recent case I haven't joined an in-progress game in several decades (not this century), and I'm not sure the one recent example will help, but: A while back I was thinking about trying some online PbP when I noticed there was an opening or two in ongoing game that had suffered...

My first thought is that Benevolent GM Stance sounds like some kind of secret martial arts technique taught only to those who oppose the fearsome practitioners of the Way of the Killer GM. My second, more relevant thought is that I've been playing so many superhero systems where death is (if...

Most often said by folks whose GMs weren't using the rules for henchmen and hirelings back in the day, and probably not the morale rules either. Awful lot of people who were forced to play without the extra manpower they were meant to have and never saw what Charisma could do. Or the worst...

It's really not just kids. Modern game design trends laud the light and deride crunch (much less any kind of simulation) and it does so because so many customers these days of any age won't touch a book over 200 pages, and many draw the line much lower than that. Even I feel a little tired...

Or another were in full-tiger form. That certainly aged poorly, especially with some fairly dire cultural stereotyping in the mix. ...Different Worlds, Adventure Gaming, Space/Fantasy Gamer, White Wolf, Adventurers Club, early White Dwarf... So many things to choose from back in the day, and...

I believe that's correct, but it's been a very long time and memory is hazy.

Busy week. What do you think, worth mentioning over on that "systemless books" thread that's been running for a while now? This one vaguely reminds me of a short story from the Liavek shared world anthology, although it's probably just a coincidence based on both featuring evil-minded camels.

Back when I had regular FtF groups (ie pre-2020-ish) the one thing that was a real no-sell was Pelgrane's excellent version of Dying Earth. That one really "got" Vance's setting, but getting people to play has been tricky for decades now. I briefly considered the Goodman Games' version despite...

Yep, a real product of the times that created the 800-ton Broadsword mercenary "cruiser" and "huge" 1800-ton Leviathan-class merchant cruiser. Keeping to a smaller scale was arguably a good idea, since a party could reasonably interact with enough of the major (and not-so-major) NPCs of a...

What Bolongo said is correct but ignores some realities of the module's production. As the first-ever stand-alone Traveller adventure the format is odd - both over-detailed and under-detailed at once. The four pages of "suggestions" don't include the minimalist stats for the NPC crew which...

Not that I think TLG would ever do something illegal but I've seen some doozies when it comes to finding money in this industry. I remember working an office job when I was right out if college. There were about half a dozen gamers in staff of varying ages, and this one guy a little older than...

It's for sure not just books. Says so right in the first sentence.

That parallels my (US) experience. Read the first six young, never re-read them and have no sense of nostalgia, which is really bad sign considering I even gave the Belgariad series a second pass to see if it was what I remembered it being 40 years later. Spoilers, it is, and knowing the...