Recent content by Reynard

My guess is that this is a test. If people balk at the price but love the content, the next time DLC will be $9.99. If no one bites, it won't happen again. If it sells well, $15 it is.

I wasn't talking about rules.

This gets to the thorny question of what "OSR play" is. I imagine lots of people would agree with you, and lots of people would very much disagree.

Of course not all heroes are, but Conan certainly is. If you read Howard's letters, it isn't just obvious, it is a little weird.

He is a Mary Sue for everything Howard aspired/wished to be.

Super fun inspirational stuff. If you sold a big cloth version of Autumnlands I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I am almost done with The Lost City of Z and will need a new book soon. I feel like digging into the modern corporate world (nonfiction; also not celebratory). Any suggestions on a book that is a window in to how corporations took over?

So in the backstory of the event, each of 5 obelisks housed a captured dragon of a different color (well, 4 obelisks because the tree that is the lair was the green "obelisk" and that dragon was the instigator of the attempt to pull in Tiamat). Anyway, the Red obelisk was broken (I am using a...

Yeah, the price debate does not really mean anything to me since i don't use Beyond I don't know what is typical or acceptable for that platform. Most RPG stuff continues to be woefully underpriced because gamers are, by and large, cheap, so folks creating valuable material are not being paid...

YAY

They have. The Kwalish adventure comes to mind. But, yeah, Beyond only is a complete no go.

Wait, it isn't even a PDF?

I think that overstates it by quite a lot. There are tons of "encumbrance" solutions out there, ranging from spreadsheets to pure handwavium and everything in between.

In games about getting treasure and getting out alive, I think this is super important. What are you taking? What are you willing to leave behind?

I'm a big fan of curated random.encounter tables. This particular Dark Forest possesses certain traits, so it's encounter table should be distinct.