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Yeah, plucky underdog deserves what's coming to him in this argument. Christ. I can't believe someone put that out. Well, actually I can, but I'm disgusted by it. Have at them, corporate lawyers. Never thought I'd be cheering for you.

Oh, that's interesting! That might actually make it to a physical shop near me, which would be cool.

I've run through all of Barrowmaze once, and had players go delving in it multiple times (it's one of my introductory dungeons for my school D&D club). It's pretty great, if you like dungeon exploration. I've run most of Highfell (the floating dungeon) and I think it's also excellent, though not...

That's a good question. The biggest advantage Gunderholfen has is that it is complete, you can run it out of the book as is. It's also a bit more wacky than Dwarrowdeep, which is more vanilla (being vanilla is a plus for me, but maybe not for others). The Dwarven feel of Gunderholfen is less...

I have it, and I'm satisfied with it. It's not perfect, but I was very much in the market for a product like this and it delivers enough for me to be happy. It's a huge dwarven hold, more Moria than Lonely Mountain. Probably the closest I've seen to a Moria in print. In my view, it's better than...

On why people focus on Keep on the Borderlands - it's definitely true that that is an adventure that even though I have no nostalgia for, really piques my interest and excites me. And it's not for any really deep intellectual reason I think. It's just a big network of caves full of a variety of...

Well, I think I agree with you that it's not really a brand. It's certainly not controlled by one person. I didn't have a better shorthand to get across what I meant. I guess I'm discussing my view from the bits of the discourse that I look at, where I see this kind of funky, alt artistic...

Picked up the Dwarrowdeep pdf off of Drivethru. I'm a huge sucker for Moria, the only megadungeon I ever made myself was a sort of "lonely mountain" rip off. But I've been looking for something that'd really represent a huge labyrinthian Dwarven city over run by evil for years. The LOTR moria...

I started playing 20 years ago, and at the time stuff in D&D struck me as someone with an interest in fantasy novels and comics as pretty weird and out there. We used a lot of the 2e settings in our campaigns, and I was introduced to the idea of the older game and the newer game and the...

That's fair - particularly doing Vision Blocking by hand is a bit mindless, but I still enjoy doing it in a weird way. It's a low brainpower activity I can do when I'm tired from my job and stuff that still gives me a feeling of satisfaction and making progress on something hobby related. I...

I got into OSR stuff around 2010, but only for the ideas and the insights into the styles of play that used to be prevalent. I never got into any of the older systems or their retroclones, closest is probably Stars Without Number but even then it's probably closer to 3e than anything else. I've...

I love In Nomine, it was my favourite game for years. We played the crap out of it in university. But yeah, the system was pretty weird and janky in places. The only D&D killer will be WOTC's lazy incompetence or contempt for their fanbase, and they've been doing okay with 5e so far by all...

Home from the hospital. The wife of the guy in the same room tested positive for covid, so I guess I'll have to wait and see if she transmitted it. Other than that doing alright, thanks for the kind words!

Thanks, that does make me feel better! Hope everything goes well for you as well!

I've got surgery coming up (hernia on both sides, ffs) and I'm a bit worried about it. But I've stocked my phone with audiobooks for the recovery period and the doctors around here are pretty good. I'm not even 40 yet and 2 hernias is making me feel a bit crap about my physical state. Ah well...

Yeah, I agree. It's pretty frustrating when you have a good idea that someone would really enjoy a new system more and they're sticking with an expensive system that doesn't really do what they want.

I live in Franconia in southern Germany. It's part of Bavaria but don't say that around the locals. Really lovely area, rolling hills and limestone caves and beautiful medieval cities restored after the war.

I think a lot of people don't like learning systems that much. They know 5e, it's fine for what they want, and they're not motivated to learn another system because it's not a fun or interesting activity for them.

Warhammer 40K: The Imperium covers a really large chunk of the galaxy, but it's not all the way out to the Eastern Fringe yet. The Great Crusade is still ongoing, but massively bogged down due to the Horus Heresy. The Emperor is still running around, and he's a psychic gestalt made of a bunch...

Listen I'm a sucker for vanilla fantasy: And because the Underdark is awesome: And because sci fi should be scrappy: