So one of the folks I've gamed with for several years(in a long term MERP campaign, some Warhammer Fantasy, Unknown Armies, and actually the first player in my Phaserip Call of Cthulhu games back in 2010 I think; moreover I think I met 90% of my current gaming group through him), who happens to...
The first 5-7 minutes of this are fun even if you don't want to watch the whole session to just hear more about Colbert's memories of playing D&D, meeting Gygax at Gencon and Metamorphis Alpha!
This is a pretty cool video with Andy Kitkowksi, who has translated a number of Japanese RPGs into English, about the RPG scene in Japan.
Some quick take aways:
- It's kinda cool that CoC is the most popular RPG in Japan (discussed around 2:40).
- So Sword World is the most popular fantasy...
The Analog Game Studies site is an academic site dedicated to analogue table top games, including RPGs, board and card games and experimental games of all sorts.
The articles are, not surprisingly, hit or miss but this recent one that tracks media portrayls of people playing D&D and the modern...
I know @Baulderstone posted this in the RL thread but I thought it would be good to feature it in its own thread if he doesn't mind.
After a typically acrimonious thread on RPGSite about 'authentic' medieval role-playing Rob (Bat in the Attic) offered to DM his take on a 'authentic medieval'...
A pretty tall order perhaps, YT is clearly the beloved home of many a self-important blowhard blabbing from his bedroom but there are a few I can stand and even like.
Unfortunately these are all about D&D almost exclusively, if anyone knows a broader RPG channel that doesn't suck please let us...
I thought we needed one of these threads. It's a tradition, or an old charter, or something.
I am currently listening to Hank Williams sr. To the disgust of my partner, who despises country with a passion.