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Depends on the player. Thankfully most don’t, but quite a few clearly want something like the “CR experience.” PCs as main characters, the story centered on them and their backstory, etc. Aka a lot more work than standard from referees. I have had 2-3 players flat-out say, “Matt Mercer...

It would be great if just once you engaged your critical thinking skills.

Exactly. And if the prevailing attitude is “no gaming is better than bad gaming,” then new referees never get the time they need to suck before they get good. You’re not going to improve if you only ever get 1-4 sessions to become a rock star. And we wonder why there’s a referee shortage.

Yep. The mantra of “no gaming is better than bad gaming” utterly kneecaps new referees. A lot of players expect Mulligan, Mercer, and Colville from the first session.

Over the Edge 3E. Fiasco. Toon. Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme. Mothership. Yes, I know that’s five.

If I recall correctly, the wider Cthulhu Mythos is a jumbled mess of rights. Yes, H. P. Lovecraft’s stuff is all public domain, but a lot of what ended up in the Call of Cthulhu RPG is not. A few years ago there was a push for OpenCthulhu, an OGL Cthulhu game. The writers made a lot of bad...

A few things. Work vs hard work. No, running games isn’t that hard. But it is work. A lot more work than most players realize. A lot of referees also make things harder on themselves by prepping the wrong stuff, making assumptions about what the PCs will do, etc. Skill level. Just because...

Looks like they announced it about 3 hours ago on Facebook.

Wild. Maybe someone pressed go too soon and there’s an announcement scheduled for Saturday morning.

Holy @&$#! Saving all my pennies for that. I hope they don’t change the system too much. It was kinda perfect. ETA: Weird that there’s zero news or announcements anywhere about it.

We’re working our way through Taskmaster on YouTube. It’s a hilarious competition / game show where comedians are given ridiculous tasks and have a limited time to complete them. Usually batshit tasks. It’s wonderful stuff.

Yep. I think it was best described as Pirates of the Caribbean meets Army of Darkness/Evil Dead. I think of it as a horror-comedy game. You can kill undead and snort their powdered bones to get psychic powers. This is not a “serious business” game. It’s beer & pretzels at its finest.

Make sure you have a ready supply of NPCs to recruit/promote to PC status. Have a stack of pre-gens ready. Print and hand out copies of the rules summary. The rules aren’t complicated, but they are just different enough in places to catch you out. If you can, get some faux doubloons or pieces...

I’m from Portland where basically everyone has tattoos. The only tattoo I’ve ever wanted to copy was a guy who had BOOK ENDS tattooed across the backs of his fingers. One of the first books I worked on was a local tattoo artist’s memoir / art book. I gotta say I’m not sure what people mean by...

Right? I didn't really get the whole FOMO as applied to RPGs thing until I tried to pick up a few older games or books I missed back-in-the-day. There's some serious "get it while it's new and on the shelf or forever hold your peace" secondhand prices out there.

Antagonistic players will always find a way...

Yeah, it's just one of those things. I'm glad we've moved to a point where we understand that we should be sensitive to other cultures and how they're represented. But I'm not sure how much exposure I would have had to some of those cultures without the admittedly mostly bad representations of...

Yeah, that's really tough. Have to go with either the PHB or the DMG.

I didn't misread you. But I did mistype. If the dice are rolled, the situation should change regardless of the result. The null result is a boring waste of time. Even if it's only one of several possible results. Your person on the rope example. To me, it should be either the person falls or...