Recent content by Autumnal

On the other hand, who remembers the Raiders of the Lost Ark poster, other than the logo type? Things stick or don’t for a combination of cultural context, their design, and the whim of the gods.

Me examining long threads when my brain meats are floppy and tired:

Not just there. I’ve run into it with a friend of the GM or another player and with a casual acquaintance as we got to know each better, and with a long-time acquaintance responding to a new diagnosis or someone getting sick after the group’s been going a while.

People who are convinced they’re too savvy to let their table mates be gullibly exploited with obviously fake diseases. I have personally encountered dismissals of the following: Chronic fatigue syndrome, and now long COVID Mental illness of various sorts A wide variety of disabilities that are...

I’ve seen almost all of these break groups apart, temporarily and also for good. But I’ve seen groups survive almost all of these, too. It’s not about the topic of the problem, it’s about how the people involved solve problems, or don’t.

I had the same immediate reaction. This is the Blade Runner game I want.

Me too. Both the trying and the failing. I like to focus my attention on the people who write things that do some combination of interest and entertain me.

This is me reminding myself that when there someone who usually posts a mix of stuff I don’t care about and stuff I like, but who infuriates and discourages me on any regular basis..it’s not just okay for me to block that person, it’s often an actively good idea. The difference between half a...

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This is a digression. One of the quietly delightful things to me about Onyx Path in recent years (ever since their friend Jacob Burgess persuaded me to hire them for Book of Oblivion) is OP has had an extremely successful author contributing to OP projects: Cassandra Khaw. They’ve won a Stoker...

The problem is simple: they don’t sell for beans. I spent years talking with Fred Hicks of Evil Hat and looking at their sales data, and the evidence was really undeniable. If you have a game that sells hundreds to thousands in print and/or PDF, the epub will sell dozens. If you bundle it with...

I’m making of that for some day soon. :)

I’ve almost always been the person in the room most enthusiastic about psionics. I blame Andre Norton. And Madeline L’Engle. And Edgar Pangborn. And… Anyway. The thing is that I kept wanting psionics while deeply disliking actually existing D&D psi (partial exceptions for 3e and 4e) and also...

Agh. An unexpected browser refresh ate a couple paragraphs. I’m going to go sulk about it, and come back later.

I would prefer to run that kind of something pretty light and fairly abstract, like Fate or Ironsworn. Or possibly something that would let me make use of character imperatives, like Pendragon or Burning Wheel. Resting the scene as an instance of general principles driven by character and genre...