Recent content by overgeeked

Great review as always from Quinns. Buried deep in the review is a marvelous bit of wisdom. For the finale of their Triangle Agency game they simply ignored the rules and played. And it was the single best session he has ever had playing an RPG.

I could only watch the first 5 minutes before having to make dinner. He’s on fire as usual.

Oh. Jack is good people. That's an auto-buy from me. Anyone know anything about the system?

The struggle is real.

Nah. Write even looser rules as an obvious trap for jerks. When they gleefully fling themselves into the trap, show them the door.

It’s not possible to jerk-proof game design. We’ve been trying for the life of the hobby. The solution is not more ironclad writing, the solution is not playing with jerks.

As a self-publisher, as many as you want. Check around to see what the standard is, if there is one. If you're charging more for less than people are used to, it'll not go great. Both. Make the smaller themed-monster books first. When you have enough to fill out a big-daddy book, do that. The...

That’s a whole other forum’s worth of discussion.

Exactly. The ease of conversion opens up a lot of games for use as Dragonbane sources. WFRP and Call of Cthulhu among them. Converting OSR material to either Shadowdark or Dragonbane are about the same amount of work, so that’s a wash.

This was a short experiment that ended years ago, but it proves the point that carrots are better than sticks. This is a post about game design.

Both Troll's Spire and Riddermound are in the boxed set as part of the Secret of the Dragon Emperor sandbox campaign.

Great article. Clocks, timers, and countdown are my favorite universal mechanic. I used that for years with no real results. Check out Dreaming Spanish. I started back in March and my Spanish comprehension is already better than my German after 2-3 years of university-level classes. Their...

I love anthologies by multiple authors because it provides short snippets of one author before moving on to someone else. I don’t mind novellas and older, shorter novels, but the modern tread of single-author, single-story doorstoppers is just not for me.

Both are great games. You won’t go wrong either way. The mechanics are different but both are shooting for roughly the same (or similar) play experience. Lower magic, zero to hero, deadly combat, exploration matters, etc. They take different approaches though. If you want the more standard...