Tavern Chat

Kickstarter is now putting its fulfillment policy in the backers' faces. What caused them to blink?

I'm amazed at the entitlement some folks in the gaming community feel towards content creators, especially those content creators that aren't being paid for their work. I know many gamers are cheap, and a significant number do not invest points in social skills, but there is a limit to the entitlement one can silently tolerate.

For some, the stress of Covid and / or other factors, can bring one to consider actions that are irrevocable. Seeking help for mental and emotional issues isn't weakness, its strength.

Old Man Grognard and Tenkar are joined by Bad Mike Badolato of NTRPG Con and Frog God Games.

Yep, Torchlight Issue #1 has moved on from layout to editing. Aiming for the first half of May. We've surpassed over 400 subs on this channel. Huzzah and thank you!

Bad Mike & Tenkar are joined by Jeff Talanian  (Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea) as Talking Crit kicks off a series of NTRPG Con 2021 Special Guests for their weekly Livestream. Got questions for Jeff? Ask them in the chat.

Chad calls in with a suggestion about Mooks not getting critical hits, but the PCs getting such because they are heroes. I take it one step further, and propose using critical hits for PCs, major NPCs, and climatic encounters. Also, Zak S will soon be dishing the dirt on the Vampire 5e fiasco.

Taylor called the show to follow up on my earlier comments about blogs. He's right, blogs aren't dying, but they certainly are receding in importance, at least in the OSR. There are many factors for that: the relative ease one can podcast via Anchor or Vidcast on YouTube, the death of Google+, the advent of self-publishing, and the relatively low cost of entry associate with such (almost any word processing program can get you started and the ability to monetize your creations). In many ways, it's a perfect storm... Still, the entry bar to blogging is still set at Zero, and I still blog on a daily basis at tenkarstavern.com.

I no longer play with crits and fumbles when I run an RPG session. Critical hits and fumbles have the potential to affect the player characters as well as their adversaries, and as most adversarial encounters are meant to be one and done, critical hits and fumbles carry over detrimentally for the PCs from one encounter to the next.

Rach & Tenkar escaped to the Poconos for the first time in 14 months, and it was emotional. Doing something that was normal prior to the pandemic was refreshing.