Recent content by overgeeked

Check out Memory Alpha and Memory Beta. Whatever there is to find will be there.

Grounded as in a passing attempt at verisimilitude. PCs can get hurt and die, PCs are mostly normal people in extraordinary circumstances, PCs do not have godlike powers, etc. Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green would also be grounded in that sense despite the unknowable alien gods.

Four days to go and 2453 people signed up.

Exactly. If I told the referee I wanted a grounded world and the response was you’re playing demigods or superheroes, I’d honestly wonder if we were speaking the same language. To me grounded is basically the opposite of Daggerheart. Shadowdark is grounded.

Turns out Game Theory solved the optimal human behavior pattern decades ago. Generous Tit for Tat. Start cooperative. If you’re betrayed, betray them. If they return to cooperating with you, cooperate with them. Accept that communication and understanding are not perfect so be willing to...

Inspiration and time. I can come up with thousands of random names for an infinite amount of bog-standard faux-medieval and high-fantasy towns, cities, regions, etc. Same goes for any bog-standard fantasy stuff. I’m good. I have 40+ years of modules, books, supplements, etc all around me. I...

Nice. I always thought of it more like working as an episodic show rather than a serialized show. So Doctor Who or Star Trek rather than Babylon 5. You can play as long as you want, but the idea of trying to do anything like a story-based campaign would be a non-starter. Though I do wonder...

Depends on the rewards and pricing. But that would be amazing. I’m not a fan of podcasts so I haven't listened to it. How well did they do with the game?

True. But that doesn’t make oral tradition unreliable. Again, in the West the cultural bias towards writing is strong. Like most biases it should be examined rather than not.

You can never go wrong with the classic stick o' TNT. 🧨

It's mostly horrible, yes. But there are pockets of cool communities hidden here and there.

Cultures with strong oral traditions but no writing are generally big on memorizing these details. It’s a Western bias for writing that wrongly assumes oral traditions are unreliable.

Just shy of 1800 now. SJG put up a blog post. Not much new info. https://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/December_11_2025/Lets_Get_Silly_Toon_Second_Edition_Is_Coming_Soon_To_BackerKit Several geek media sites have articles on it now. Didn’t really see much new info in any of those either. Though...

This comes up pretty regularly. I know there have been lots of good ideas posted about this before. My quick searching isn’t working so here’s a few I can remember. The web. It’s not always easy to find what you’re looking for. What you find isn’t always true…especially now with “AI”. Not...

Wow. Must have been a push somewhere. It’s jumped to 1400 in the last few hours.