Recent content by Longspeak

😲 $6 an hour in 1987?!?!?!?!?!?! I want to go back in time and move to where you were!! All of these. I've run almost exclusively online since 1998! Why do I keep buying dice?!?! Or cards?? Or more recently physical books?!? Here I may disagree. Not about the stuff you said about Roll20...

Listen... I've been doing this for a while now, and I've been through what you're going through. Hell, I'm going through it now. The only time there's too much prep is when you let that prep become a railroad instead of a map. I prep session by session, but only after I've made my outline. I...

What's eighteen thousand years between friends?

He employed, mistreated, then fired my sister. Edit: Garden variety employer BS. Nothing more deplorable.

I am torn. I want this, but I want Heinsoo to fail...

I couldn't vote because there's no zero.

I will hold out hope for Supergiant Games. Which I know... never gonna happen. But still. I would play this so hard I'd die of exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. Please, yes.

"Paradox kills Chronicles of Darkness" My first thought: "Too much Vulgar Magic."

Wait, what?? I bought and played that. No idea it was a Thompson spite piece!

Another light goes out in the sky. Thanks, Jim, for making my childhood considerably less boring.

Possibly an unpopular opinion? I don't love D&D. I have lots of games that interest me more, that are, IMO, better made, clearer, less contradictory, prettier, nicer art, better writing, cooler ideas, more fun premises, less kitchen-sink, etc... But... I LOVE getting to play. D&D is the...

I can't recall ever being unsold by a game's art feel. But I have absolutely been SOLD by the art matching tonally with the game. Most recently, Inevitable had me from the first look at the cover art. Edit: Inevitable Cover Art

Girl by Moonlight, Evil Hat's gorgeous take on the Magical Girl genre, built on the Blades in the Dark. Or go older than Dungeon World and it's Apocalypse roots with Baker's pinnacle achievement, Dogs in the Vineyard. The premise might put some folk off but it's absolutely worth it to get past...

So... "diverse folk getting along = bad?" That's their message? Could everyone look away from the screen a moment? I need to use some bad words. Thanks. I'm fine now.

Okay, I assume since it's from DSHM, there's hateful bile here somewhere. But I don't see it.