Tavern Chat

Bad Mike & Tenkar are back with their weekly Talking Crit Livestream. News, events, This Week in Gaming Stupid - its all here.  The GoFundMe for Steve Perrin's Wife's medical expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-the-phoenix Mystara Player's Guide Download Pages: https://rpgmp3.com/mystara-players-guide/

Bad Mike & Tenkar will be joined by Mark Greenberg (Necropolis Kickstarter - Necromancer Games/Frog God Games). The second half of the livestream will be covering This Week in RPG Stupid.

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that we will be losing Doug Rhea - founder of NTRPG Con - in the coming days. Doug is the founder and driving force behind NTRPG Con, and his presence will be sorely missed.

Earlier tonight I played in Session Zero of JoetheLawyer's Fantasy Heartbreaker. The session was a blast, not because of the system (which is fine and mostly familiar) but because of the players. If your online group already knows each other, emulating a face-to-face experience is easier than many think.

We are reaching critical mass when it comes to the first generation of RPG creators, and it no longer surprises me to find out we've lost another, although it saddens me just the same as it ever did. Social media allows you to reach and thank those that have had an influence on your life, as a gamer and beyond. Thank them now, because tomorrow may be too late.

You know the trope: you all meet at a tavern. But why is that? What makes a Tavern, the local watering hole, such an integral part of kicking off so many RPG adventures?

There is a certain brush you paint with when members of your development group and playtesters leave glowing reviews for your product and fail to mention their connections to it. I try to mention the connections I have to individuals and companies whenever I review a product, because the potential customer has a right to know of potential biases in said review.

GenCon 2021 has announced that there will be a mask mandate in effect for all attendees, vaccinated or not. They also hint that a vaccination mandate may come into effect prior to the convention.   https://gencon.blog/2021/08/06/august-health-and-safety-update/

I don't care what your personal beliefs are if you want to be friends on social media. I want to discuss what we share in common - a love for gaming.

We often talk about the skills one needs to learn as a GM/DM, but what is often overlooked are the skills one needs as a player. These skills are often real-life social skills, and I touch upon them in this installment of Tavern Chat.

Our dog Danke enjoys exploring on her walks. We let her lead the way most times, but on occasions, we must redirect her or even take the lead. Its the same in your campaign...

Many jobs have moved to work from home and many tabletop campaigns have moved to Virtual Tabletops -VTTs-. Are we picking up new creators as folks either work from home or are home with enhanced unemployment benefits? Are the changes we have seen in the method of play - the jump in virtual play and virtual conventions - here to stay?

Benoit hit his 2nd Monday Goal and the backers of the Marmoreal Tob will be getting Chapter 1 of the Wilderness Expansion and the Wilderness Expansion map. Games Workshop had huge profits during Covid and is giving its employees 5k pound bonuses.

D&D Beyond canceled a contest where they offered digital prizes and claimed rights to use all entries. Lesson learned the hard way.

Yep, TSR3 has or is in the process of, abandoning at least three graphical trademarks. 

There is an update on the Marmoreal Tomb Kickstarter - Benoist has hit his first due date and succeeded. Sadly, Brian Fitzpatrick of Moebius Adventures passed away this weekend from an accident during rafting.