Ikoma wrote: In part because I occasionally get annoyed at what I see is the reverse, the denigration of RPG as 'games'.

But ... RPGs are games. It's even part of the name. How is that any kind of denigration?

It's Chuck E Cheese, with movies instead of shitty animatronics!
And a gift shop.

Yeah, I spent a few weeks doing a ton of those. It got real frustrating repeating the same process several times per application ... multiple times a day. ... Then someone suggested I try deliveries, signed up with Door Dash who does not give a fuck about anything if you can pass a background check,...

Chad wrote:As far as no one going to a theater anymore I went last week, there were 4 of us in there! Granted it was like 2PM on a Tuesday.

Sounds more crowded than almost every movie I went to for the last few years pre-Covid. This must mean that movie-going is actually on the rise!

There was a third series!?

I have made sure that even through it I haven't missed a Game Notes or a Friday Fiction Fragment on my writers website(that has nothing to do with FTB but I'm shamelessly plugging it) Tsk tsk tsk. You should be ashamed of yourself. That's a terrible plug. There isn't even a link! If you're going to...

So, it's been about a month now since the last public episode dropped. I know there are some raws up on the Patreon, but none seem to have been edited or released. My question is: What's up, guys? Did something happen to Aisha? Did something happen to you? Concerned minds wish to know.

I'll toss in a third one: "I think the mechanics will be cool ... for this setting that isn't tied to it, but I think will work really well with it."

Mikel raises an interesting point. If you have a character with a dump stat, how do you draw a balance between playing true to the character's obvious deficiency, and risking being a nuisance to the others in the game, and being less disruptive but thereby effectively ignoring the dump stat's handi...

I have to say, I struggle to comprehend the rationale behind running a homebrew setting but then asking the players to do a load of the world-building and creative stuff. Surely that's the main purpose of a homebrew setting; because you love the creative part and want to make it live! If you can't ...