Recent content by overgeeked

What’s this “we”? Who needs help painting such a tiny structure as that? Now, the Balustrades of Mars. That is a paint job worthy of a crew.

The classic d6 always.

My favorite dice of all time are the old GameScience hard-edged d20s with 0-9 twice and a + next to half. I’ve had several in different colors over the years. Easily the best dice I’ve ever had.

Nice. Yeah, that's how you do it. Make it relevant now and the players will bite. I'm also reminded of this video from Matt Colville.

I absolutely love it. I kinda hate magic that always just works like technology. Press the button, get the effect. Anything to make magic interesting and lively. Roll to cast, random side effects, magical mishaps, mutations, different components, bunks from Changeling: The Dreaming, etc. The...

That's basically the story of my relationship with most food. I was a super picky eater as a kid but as an adult I try a lot more variety of stuff. Turns out most of my family just can't cook.

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Finally got around to finishing this one. It’s a really good read. Richard Marin, aka Cheech, is a good writer and storyteller. The first 1/2 to 2/3 of the book is more interesting and told with more energy than the rest. This just happens to correspond with his younger days and time as part of...

I am generally not either, but I had no idea who this was so checked his wiki page.

Not alleged he was convicted of murder and arson.

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.