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Hey You Know What's Fun That You Did Not Know Was Fun?
It was with trepidation that I opened Deadly Fusion. What a terrible cover. Unremembered, unloved, seemingly unread and unreviewed, and not even having DC Heroes’ usual snappy trade-dress, that...
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Endless Pointless Zak Debate
As the legal process chugs along......we’ve been having depositions. For example:Mandy got asked how I could have “forced” our ex-, Viv to move in with us. She admitted--despite what she'd earlier...
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Reader Participation: Disagree.
One of the ironies of the recent situation in games is that nobody really likes the RPG conversation right now--especially the people who joined the mob trying to kick me out.From Wundergeek up there...
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Disagree-a-thon: Bards
As promised, we're doing disagreements this week. You get to watch human beings talk about something we don't agree on without freaking the fuck out. Today Simon will defend the worst thing in all of...
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The Quick and the Dead
Still disagreeing, today Jake will attempt to convince me that we should play D&D using speed factors for weapons.Has Jake gone mad? Find out... ZakHey Jake. So: you first, because i don't...
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The Alignment Talk
Still disagreeing about things. Today Jose is attempting to disagree with me about the thing that is hardest to explain on the character sheet: Alignment. Specifically he said "Any D&D campaign...
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Computer RPGs vs The Other Kind
More disagreeing going on. Adam says "CRPG's are better than tabletop RPG's". Tough room for that take. but here we go:ZakHey AdamAdamHey ZakZakSo I was going to say TTRPGs were better than CRPGs...
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Another Cube World available!
This one is a mass battle set in the Lands of the Southern Daimyos--get it in The Store.---
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Don't Be Any Of These People
I'm not the biggest fan of Watchmen but it occurs to me that one of its strengths is that it presents an oddity in heroic fiction: a compelling and differentiated cast of characters who are all...
View ArticleTracking Systems vs Reliability Systems
If a dragon can breathe fire once every three rounds that's a tracking system.If a dragon can breathe fire in any round that they roll a 1-3 on a six-sided die, that's a reliability system.-Or:If a...
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The last Disagree-a-thon was successful and the conversation broadly has failed to get better, so it has to happen again.Put your Takes You Expect Someone Else ReadingThis To Disagree With in the...
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A Fistful of D6s
Today on the Disagree-A-Thon we tackle a central issue in gaming: using big pools of dice instead of just like a d20 like Gary and Dave intended.Here to represent this heresy is David.David...
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REAL D&D!
Continuing the Disagree-A-Thon, today we have Matthew, who wants to disagree about what D&D even is...So Matthew said:"Fans of modern D&D (3e+) don't actually want or even like D&D - they...
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Goons on Trial (Part 1)
There is a poll at the end of this entry, please comment if you're interested.Three Years of LawsuitsThree years in. One thing I do is depositions, they work like this:Qake up before dawn, shave, put...
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Do Games Make You Bad?
Note: if you missed yesterday's post there's a thing to vote on at the bottom.Today we have an old chestnut on the disagree-a-thon, games making people bad...Zak:Ok so you're completely untenable claim...
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Nickoten and Erika Muse (Goons on Trial Pt 2)
Part One HereToday we'll start with a pair of Something Awful goons that have somehow ended up in the same community they started their online careers helping to harass: Erika Muse and Nickoten.This is...
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Nora Reed (Goons on Trial pt 3)
Part one here - Part two hereDay three of explaining about the goons. If you want the more detailed version--go to that link and vote.For the last three years, the atmosphere over here has been a lot...
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Live from Ukraine--an OSR guy
As far as humanitarian importance goes, I can't claim Ukraine's more important than Syria or any other piece of great-power adventurism or world disaster, however, it's the first one where people who...
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"Get up. The war has started" Interview from Kyiv
Kyiv.Hey all, like I promised Friday, here's an interview with a gamer in Kyiv, as the bombs are dropping.How did this happen? Anton from the metal band Kauan is a fan of my game stuff and Anatoly is...
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Some New Demon City Stuff
Albequerque, New Mexico. Long story. Anyway I was there.I was walking through what I take to be some outskirt of some part of the center of some part of town. Like 2pm. Dust, rust. Broken car....
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