Recent content by Wofano Wotanto

In search of a silver lining, it does mean your FLGS and Paizo themselves should see somewhat better sales numbers on those products - assuming the game stores were smart enough to have multiple distributors and didn't over-depend on Diamond/Alliance. I don't know of any stores that survived...

That's partially because distribution generally offers order thresholds where shipping receives a discount or simply becomes free. It's easy (relatively) to reach those thresholds when you're ordering from scores of companies all at once through a distributor. When it's just one company, they...

As I said when that mess started, I've never bought anything from Goodman and don't intend to. I intensely disliked DCC when a friend convinced me to try it, and nothing I've seen since has increased my interest in their products. Dying Earth particularly annoyed me, since I regard Pelgrane's...

Not even close. Cairn was written by Yocchai Gal and is based off Ben "Questing Beast" Milton's Knave and Chris McDowell's Into the Odd rules.

I'd be more generous and say too hopeful, but there is a degree of "ignorance is bliss" involved when starting in gaming/comic/book retail. Can't deny it looks like a dream job from outside, right? :) Part of the reason that I never pulled the trigger was due to watching my bosses (and in...

That might be the best time to start a game store. I'd worked in several before I was in a position where I could have realistically started my own, and by that point I was very clear on the odds of it leaving me personally bankrupt so I ultimately just said no. You can get on-the-job business...

Oh good, someone saved me having to look that one up. My 3.0 books are buried deep these days. How long are your sets that you need more than 5 minutes/level x your number of cantrip slots? Pretty sure most GMs would let you take them in higher-leveled spell slots if you needed to do a solo...

You should be. Precious few game or comic stores last three decades, especially under a single management.

Out of curiosity, do you still feel that way after the whole "back in bed with Judges' Guild for City-State" thing?

No.

It also has zero sense of gravitas, which is something GW had been needing for a very long time. There's no way to explain the gonzo post-apocalypse of any edition of TSR GW (and I played and ran them all) with a straight face, so the "lean back and enjoy the lunacy" approach of 7e was an...

Since the OP didn't bother to say so, this is an adventure for some RPG called Cresthaven, which appears to be entirely free (as is the adventure itself) and can be found at the link provided. Never heard of it before, but from a brief dip into the rules it looks like generic D&D-like fantasy...

Yeah, there's some real utility to delineating between "feeling fine" and "this is getting dire" no matter what you call it, since you can hang all sorts of interesting mechanics off your state of health - or a monster's health, for that matter. Lot of games have adopted something similar...

It does draw a very sharp line between the "combat" and "not in combat" sections of the game, which is a feature (or bug, depending on one's opinion) that made 4e stand out quite a bit when it was new. You see the same divide in Lancer and Icon - and of course in many JRPGs and MMOs, which is...

I already mentioned it around the 40th post, along with a recommendation to avoid anything authored by Barker and sold by the Tekumel Foundation (who covered up for him for an indeterminate amount of time) in favor of more independent efforts like Jeff Dee's Bethorm (which was released shortly...