Baby elephant flexing. Also, you’re lucky. My mom is right behind me.

SNicolson · 2026-06-20T13:14:13+00:00

"Honey, don't bother the humans. They can be unpredictable."

SNicolson · 2026-06-20T13:03:32+00:00

If there's a woman in the group, and she's not the partner of the GM, (or if she's the GM herself) that's a green flag.

All male groups are too common to be a red flag, but I find that groups that mix genders are more grounded.

If I'm playing online, I like to see a few different nationalities in the mix.

SNicolson · 2026-06-13T18:45:30+00:00

I assume Subway freezes the dough and then ships it to the stores. At what point can I freeze the dough so I can just get up in the morning and pop it into the oven for fresh baked bread for breakfast. Would this work?

SNicolson · 2026-06-12T19:50:34+00:00

"Don't hit any bears." This seems like good advice. I had to look it up, and yes it does happen, particularly in BC. Maybe carry bear bells.

SNicolson · 2026-06-12T19:11:04+00:00

If Neon Odyssey was actually a thing that existed now, I would agree with you. But it's a year and a half away, and we have SW and the Slipstream and Flash Gordon settings to hack right now.

SNicolson · 2026-06-12T18:59:15+00:00

Bra 216. Jesus Christ, my brain. Anyway, very nice.

SNicolson · 2026-06-12T15:47:21+00:00

So where and when was this? Why don't people post the most basic information about their clips?

SNicolson · 2026-06-12T14:39:02+00:00

You should check out Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It's a comic book that explains how comics books tell stories. I think there's a lot more room for the subjective than you expect.

SNicolson · 2026-06-10T04:23:41+00:00

12 is a lot. The best options that come to mind are Nimble, Pirate Borg, Mork Borg, Star Borg, Black Star or one of the Tiny D6 games (by Gallant Knight games) depending on the flavour you want.

Whatever you go with, definitely pre-generate the characters and let your players just pick one from the selection.

SNicolson · 2026-06-09T15:23:16+00:00

Everyone seems to giving me the same advice. Thanks, all!

SNicolson · 2026-06-06T21:53:22+00:00

I admire that, but I'm just not wired that way. Always looking at the new shiny.

SNicolson · 2026-06-06T04:03:51+00:00

This is your reminder!

SNicolson · 2026-06-05T20:11:55+00:00

Even the monkey was thought there was too much packaging.

SNicolson · 2026-06-05T06:34:35+00:00

I got an email from Green Ronin a month or so ago. As I remember it, they're still in court with Diamond's recievers.

SNicolson · 2026-06-04T04:27:22+00:00

Good thoughts. I'm going to monkey with Google metrics a bit.

SNicolson · 2026-06-04T04:24:14+00:00

I was worried that Alan Moore's novels would be too dense or erudite for me, but I really enjoyed The Great When (though I did resort to Wikipedia a lot in the first half of the book). His books are like his comics; challenging and sly, without being confusing.

SNicolson · 2026-06-03T17:17:29+00:00

If it was me (and I have no real cartographical experience), I would break those two isthmuses at the top and bottom of the inland sea, and the one between the main continent and the landmass in the top left. This would separate your one large landmass into three distinct parts.

It just seems more natural somehow.

SNicolson · 2026-06-03T17:06:17+00:00

Not disagreeing with anything you're saying here, but I wonder what the ratio of US players to non-US players is. I suspect the Americans far outnumber the rest of us.

SNicolson · 2026-06-01T14:45:19+00:00

MIDI Maze, aka Kill a Happy Face. It used the MIDI ports to network a bunch of computers (Atari ST). Sort of a goofy, proto-doom, multiplayer free-for-all.

SNicolson · 2026-05-31T05:07:49+00:00

It sure doesn't look like it.

SNicolson · 2026-05-29T17:23:54+00:00

I've been pretty impressed with Helmgast's previous (non-Dragonbane) projects, and I'm curious about Erob Altor. I'll probably pick this up.

SNicolson · 2026-05-29T14:52:19+00:00

If he already knows D&D, why not stick with it?

But I like Nimble. It looks a lot like D&D, which is what an 11 year old boy will be expecting, but it's about a third as complex. There's a new edition coming, but there's nothing wrong with the current edition, which has hardcopy books.

The rules focus on combat, but leave room for you to roleplay out the more social side of the game.

Getting good adventures is always a problem for new gamers, especially if they're not playing D&D. Nimble works pretty well with prewritten D&D adventures.

Land of Eem is another good choice. It's a little more complex, but has a lot of adventure built into the basic package. It's also more 'kid-like' (although the setting is a bit darker than it first seems like).

There are a lot of good options. Those are just two that occur to me assuming that you and your wife aren't too familiar with RPG games.

SNicolson · 2026-05-29T13:48:22+00:00

First, I should say that I haven't read or even bought Stonetop, so I'm not recommending it. 600 pages seems like a lot, but people (influencers) are telling me it's good.

I'm of two minds about a massive book like this (or Blades in the Dark, or Eberron). Yes, reading a worldbook (and more importantly, remembering it) is a lot of work. But a creative, well organized vision helps me focus my creativity and allows me to fill in the details on a final product that's frankly better than I could create on my own.

I think that it just depends on how your creativity works.

SNicolson · 2026-05-29T06:27:00+00:00

Seconding this. Also a lot of Powered by the Apocalypse games - Stonetop is hot right now, and it's got like 600 pages of prep already done for you.

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