Hey folks,
I cleaned up the audio as best I could and shared my interview with Gary Gygax I did back in 2002, with a bit of a slideshow (some personal photos too), on YouTube, I thought you might enjoy this and discussing the insights; it's a bit better than the YouTube comment section so if...
Come on by at 3:30 Eastern time for the Crazy Gibberish livestream wherein I will discuss things with the great Jim Ward!
https://www.facebook.com/bill.silvey.7
Note: you don't need to follow or friend me on FB to watch.
Just trying to keep up morale. I'll probably end up calling the affair "Crazy Gibberish" but haven't settled on a "name" yet. Here's links to the first two videos. Tomorrow, kicks off at 2pm US Eastern Standard Time. That's when I'll probably do it every day here on out, "for the duration of...
A new book of mine released today!!!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/303037/Temple-of-the-Sun?src=hottest_filtered
This is an OSRIC re-master of my original AD&D release "WGH2 Temple of the Sun". New art, newly remastered maps. Grab a copy today, and thank you!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-lost-crypt-a-classic-crawl#/
Ever wonder what it would be like to write an adventure with Gary Gygax? Around the year 2005, Gary started working with a small number of authors on a project to write new material for his world setting (which was totally not...
Hey gang...been a while since I posted here. I got loooooots of stuff in the pipeline that's coming out in actual, yes-you-can-buy-it format! Stuff for OSRIC, stuff for S&W, from Hellebarde and from Frog God Games...I won't post links unless the mods are cool with it, but it's going to be a...
...you have got to check this out:
The TLDR is that he takes hotwheels cars and turns them into incredibly detailed Mad Max inspired vehicles, any of which would look great in a game of Car Wars or just about whatever. There's definitely some good pointers you can pick up watching him build...
A video kind of popped up at random on my YT suggestions the other day:
The quality of the Terminator space marine he printed up coupled with the other minis, and the low ($200 bucks) cost of the printer means that it's finally "arrived". None of those minis are "pebbly" or "textured" on the...
I have a probably-never-going-to-run sci-fi game I'd like to do, someday, and when I was thinking of what I'd like to do and how I'd like to do it, it went something like this:
For humanity (or what's left of it*), the gadgets are straight outta the following sources: Aliens (specifically the...
had a few false starts last Monday, it was really the beta test (the alpha was last year prior to Christmas when I did a couple of sessions with a lesser webcam of nowhere near the quality I have now)...this is how I'm TTRPGing with my distance-group from now on.
Photos ahoy:
http://forums.strangemachinegames.com/forums/forum/smg-roleplaying-games/robotech-the-macross-saga-roleplaying-game/
I don't know the company at all, but that's interesting to hear.
...and am wondering why.
Oh man I'd forgotten how terrible this thing is. If Dragonlance is a railroad, O:R is...O:R is a museum display of a full-sized railroad, except it's made from welded-together metal fascia, and is also welded on to a length of track, so that not only can it not move...
Would a Nereid*, if convinced of the rightness of the circumstance, accompany an adventuring party for a short while assuming she wasn't threatened or otherwise forced against her will? I'm sticking very strictly to 1e canon here, and no-where does it say Nereids must remain in water, or even...
Or rather, what ways do you favor the world working?
Do you have a world that has hope of being righted, and the players may play a small part in it, but only in the sense that they'll begin a process they likely won't live to see completed (whether due to misfortune or simple old age, e.g...
No no, I'm not talking about the usual "Let's all list our favorite order we play the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack in while we play D&D" type thread, but songs that you hear and you instantly think, "I can make the point of this song into an adventure".
Front 242 - Headhunter. Holy crap this...
(or some very large parts of)
Are there any games that in general you like, maybe just the mechanics, and nothing else about the game appeals to you?
For me, it's probably Eclipse Phase. There's a lot to like in EP's mechanics (there's also a lot to not like), and stripped down and built...
YAY I MADE THE WORST POST TITLE EVER WHAT DO I WIN?*
Anyway.
So the question came up in a different thread about the lightness of old-school rules. First qualifier is that I love 1e AD&D. I love it. The baroque design, the chummy conversation-with-the-player tone the rule books take, the...
An old friend of mine passed on some time ago, and his wife cleaned out the storage closet his RPG collection was in and asked me to come and get it.
Wow.
There's the "usual suspects" when it comes to AD&D: the core books (Manual of the Planes might not be there but all of the rest are), two...
Macross, not Robotech. You can tap any of the Macross projects to add on: Plus, 2, 7, etc. You can either build your own rule system, or license another company's (except Palladium).
What would you do, how would you do it, and why?
This is from Mearls' twitter feed.
The cynic in me is tempted to say that this is condescending bullshit, the optimist that I am trying to become says that he's "getting it". Thoughts?
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