Wandering Adventure Party

@pteryx People stopped protesting so MS never removed it. The silver lining is that it has MONSTROUS hardware requirements, so it only activates if your machine is super good and super expensive.

@Taskerland Isn't the whole point of the OSR to bring back all old stuff? Isn't "innovations in OSR" an oxymoron?

@Taskerland Your corner of the woods sounds perplexing. Here, I have never once seen a gaming table that actually plays a game as intended (let alone R.A.W). No in all my decades in the hobby.

@pteryx He was the young dweeb who was never invited to the gaming tables because he was too much of a basket case even for the roleplayers (and I'm talking about times when roleplayers were mocked as freaks EVEN AMONG OTHER NERDS, thus the subculture was comprised of the rejects' rejects).

@Taskerland History moves in cycles and gaming is not the exception (hell, someone recently re-invented Marauder 2107).

@SJohnRoss @Taskerland The thing is, the target demo of people who consume canned adventures are either fans of railroading or people who don't mind them. High-trust GMs using canned goods are the exception, not the norm.

@Nat1Advice That's gonna be my next adventure, THANKS!

@Taskerland Your cat wants to talk to the manager of rain!

@Taskerland The hobby has always been embraced by vulnerable sectors. Even after the triumph of the nerds past the aughts, it was more likely to be embraced by the MORE vulnerable sectors of the geek population than not. All it takes is one narcissist asshole.

@Tim_Eagon Meanwhile, Wizards of the Coast keeps making the big bucks selling dnd coloring books.

@Taskerland What can I say? Some people are oblivious to the concept of "desktop run." I sure didn't need to see the "big picture" to know V5 not granting any real character advancement other than diablerie was unplayable for me (or ANYONE who doesn't want their game to be strictly about a bunch of diablerists).

@Taskerland Eh, media literacy is not people's forte as an average. I mean, we have TTRPG writers who use words as "cinematic noir" in the same sentence.

@DejahEntendu I hail the eater of arms!

@risa And then see your players turn it into 8-bit Theatre almost immediately.

@Taskerland Well, he used to be friends with alt-righter and notorious ethno nationalist Reinhaggen so, might as well?

@Taskerland Recharge your batteries, catch up on all the nothing you haven't been doing for a while now, let Calvin be your spirit guide.

@Taskerland Pathfinder is still alive and well...

@IcarusGames Are they in a super rich, post-scarcity world where anyone and their brother can afford magic for their business? Cool! At least that world is super civilized and no kingdoms can be invaded by wildlife. I mean, if every store can afford wards, every city's walls must have more wards than you can shake a stick at! (and let's not even think of their guards).

...granted, I pity the PCs. Nothing for them to do unless the game is a dungeonpunk or something.

@Taskerland We got to move with the cheese, which is rarely the mainstream cheese.

And if no commercially available cheese fills us, then we churn our own (as I'm doing now).

@geeknative People who keep tossing their money at WotC deserve whatever's coming at them.