Recent content by Retreater

Ben's criticism that many people purchase DCC products "just to read them" - I'm not sure if that is uncommon for other publishers. I have many books across a spectrum of different publishers for different systems that I've never played. Some I have purchased without the intent to play. I don't...

You know, it's not even so much the City State of the Invincible Overlord project that got me. Goodman was honest about his intent behind it - using profits to pay for refunds, etc. I can recognize that the product isn't for me and even consider it "yucky" that Goodman would willingly partner...

He liked the art in DCC and admitted that it was one of the games that got him interested in the OSR. He dislikes the adventure design: wall of text room descriptions, linear adventures, bad layout.

Questing Beast did a "negative" review of Goodman's products - saying he would never play or run them and criticizing the design. I wouldn't call him a fan. However, Bob World Builder went all-in and curated a bundle of DCC products to advertise. For me, Goodman's products now have a ick...

It depends on the number of players we have. For the most part, we play without them. We're all busy adults, and when you start late or begin cancelling sessions for every time a player can't make it, you end up having very little time to play. If it's a planned absence and they want to leave...

Draw Steel was a bit too crunchy for me. I don't think I'll ever play it. I will wait and see what the new dungeon crawler RPG looks like. I'm not as eager these days to throw money at a company just because it's not WotC, so I doubt I'll buy it sight unseen like I did Draw Steel.

As fate would have it, Daggerheart proved to be the solution to many of my issues. I ran a one-shot for a podcast. One of the other guys from the podcast asked if I would run a biweekly campaign of it. He and his wife joined my wife and we have been playing it for a few months now. The game...

I can. But I get most stuff from Kickstarters or directly from the publisher - where I also get the PDFs. Additionally, my gaming purchases have just bottomed out. There's not much I want anymore.

A good Dark Sun book with an exciting implementation of psionics might be what gets me to run 5.24.

This is the first Christmas in probably 20 years I got no gaming-related gifts - well, I did get a t-shirt with a d20 on it. No boardgames, dice, minis, paint, brushes, rulebooks, or video games. I did get a President James Garfield Pez dispenser - so that was nice.

Christmas has passed. And I didn't hear the song.

I made the realization while going through my photos over Christmas break that I purchased my set of all three 2024 core D&D rulebooks in June. I've flipped through them once. It's a wild observation to me that in the span of 6 months, I've barely looked at the current edition of D&D. It's not...

My local game store has rows of D&D and Pathfinder books they've definitely overpurchased. For example, at one point they had about 15 copies of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. They also put the date of arrival on their price tags, so you can see that they have been sitting on the shelf for...

I "ran" a short campaign in Fantasy Flight Star Wars. We used primarily Age of Rebellion as the flavor. I set the game post battle of Endor. I was pretty deep in "traditional" (non-narrative) RPGs at the time (such as D&D and Pathfinder). I knew the Star Wars lore, but the dice pools really...

I guess I was confused about the specifics. Thanks for the clarification.