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Reply: The Tavern:: Re: What have you been listening to lately?
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 09:27:08
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Reply: RPGGeek News:: Re: RPGGeek of the Week 499: NormandyWept (Andy Pymont)
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 09:10:21
And in spite of that, you see, the guy in front is done comic style. But, it does not make the whole comicy. Again, bravo.
did he also do art on the cards? And is it comic or serious?
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 09:10:21
by superjosef
Look how he gives you a comicy guy, but makes him small behind the brunt realism of the buildings and their construction!And in spite of that, you see, the guy in front is done comic style. But, it does not make the whole comicy. Again, bravo.
did he also do art on the cards? And is it comic or serious?
Reply: RPGGeek News:: Re: RPGGeek of the Week 499: NormandyWept (Andy Pymont)
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 09:08:14
Wonderful work. Bravo.
Sometimes it is not the artwork or the advertisement. Too many factors.
That cover is, in my mind, among the best works of the artist.
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 09:08:14
by superjosef
I do not like Klemens´Work as a whole, even despise some. But that glory to Rome one, I find it brings me to make peacer with him.Wonderful work. Bravo.
Sometimes it is not the artwork or the advertisement. Too many factors.
That cover is, in my mind, among the best works of the artist.
Reply: RPGGeek News:: Re: RPGGeek of the Week 499: NormandyWept (Andy Pymont)
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:47:33
(full disclosure: I was translator/producer for the German version)
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:47:33
by Againsto
And now look at what the Polish publisher did with the same basics.(full disclosure: I was translator/producer for the German version)
New comment on GeekList 06 April 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:44:54
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:44:54
by aramis
Also at C3 Con: I played half a game of wingspan. I will happily play it again, but I have no compelling need to own it. Gorgeous game. I was second place of 4 players.
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "06 April 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?"
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:43:03
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:43:03
by aramis
An item RPG Item: ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game: Core Rules Evolved Edition has been added to the geeklist 06 April 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "Gamebook rankings by Damdael"
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:16:23
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 08:16:23
by Damdael
An item RPG Item: Monuments: A Branching Narrative has been added to the geeklist Gamebook rankings by Damdael
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "06 April 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?"
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:55:00
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:55:00
by aramis
An item RPG Item: The Quiet Year has been added to the geeklist 06 April 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?
New comment on Item for GeekList "2026 Challenge: LADDER OF INSANITY!!!"
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:45:11
At that point my plays were
Nefas x4 (unpublished prototypes of my current main design project)
Ultraviolet Grasslands x2 (which oddly is listed as "generic system")
(and 8 singletons)
My 2026 RPG plays!
My d1000 roll is 843, which will make my usual ascending order of rolls difficult to achieve!
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:45:11
by anarchangel
Related Item: Star Wars (WEG 2nd Edition)
Huh! I could have sworn I posted this back in February when I reached the second rung, but I must not have hit "post".At that point my plays were
Nefas x4 (unpublished prototypes of my current main design project)
Ultraviolet Grasslands x2 (which oddly is listed as "generic system")
(and 8 singletons)
My 2026 RPG plays!
My d1000 roll is 843, which will make my usual ascending order of rolls difficult to achieve!
New comment on GeekList April 2026 US Math Trade
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:29:02
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:29:02
by bernease
Having some intermittent BGG server issues, it seems.
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "09 March 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?"
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:14:58
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 07:14:58
by awinnef
An item RPG Item: Keys from the Golden Vault has been added to the geeklist 09 March 2026: How did your RPG session(s) go this week?
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD APR 11: Is there a system, setting, or campaign that you came back to after a long time away, it had changed or your perception of it had changed? What changed and was it positive or negative?
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 06:48:16
When I came back to games nearly two decades later, three things happened. First, the online revolution meant I could play more games (online, which took some getting used to), more regularly and with a greater diversity of people. Second, the hobby feels bigger in every way – more people playing, more attention, more games, more kinds of games. This last was the major revelation – games were so different in so many ways. Free League games may be a good example. So lavish and beautifully laid out, but many feel curiously restrictive and more adjacent to a blend of an RPG and a board game in the way some of the mechanics work. Then systems like Blades in the Dark and Microscope completely changed my perception of what an RPG could do and how it could do it.
But also, perhaps curiously, I either came back to games I had only briefly touched on back then, but which now are the major part of my gaming (CoC 4e then and CoC 7e now) or discovered games that were around back then and which I would have loved, but never even realised existed (Delta Green and Traveller (Classic)). These I play all the time now and here's the interesting thing – despite modern updates (Arc Dream's Delta Green and Traveller (Mongoose 2nd Edition) and the new Masks of Nyarlathotep (5th edition)), what I really enjoy is going back in time and seeing what the older material has to offer. It is definitely different and in so many ways. Style, tone, content. Some of it bad, without a doubt, but also so much of it is good. Or perhaps it's just different and allows me to blend old ideas with new ones. It's also led me to go looking for and dig into games from back then (Ringworld and Elric!) just for the fun of seeing what they have to offer. It's interesting to see how major campaigns have changed (The Enemy Within Campaign is a great example) and why they have changed.
But in the end, it's all just opportunity to have new experiences...
Posted: Sun, 12 Apr 06:48:16
by mistonwater
When I first began playing roleplaying games, in the 1980s at school and throughout the 1990s, it was the original D&D followed quickly by AD&D (1e) and then AD&D (2e) when it came out (within various settings – Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun – pretty much most of them). We played so many other games – I sporadically joined in the WFRP Enemy Within campaign, Vampire: The Masquerade and its variants, MERPS, and others I can't remember now – and we played a lot of Star Wars (WEG Original Edition). I think this last one represents what all the games and their settings meant for me – it felt so expansive back then, so rich and filled with opportunities that did not feel predetermined by canon, film, or franchise, but which expanded them into areas that felt rich, detailed, and unknown (unexperienced). Even MERPS didn't feel restrained.When I came back to games nearly two decades later, three things happened. First, the online revolution meant I could play more games (online, which took some getting used to), more regularly and with a greater diversity of people. Second, the hobby feels bigger in every way – more people playing, more attention, more games, more kinds of games. This last was the major revelation – games were so different in so many ways. Free League games may be a good example. So lavish and beautifully laid out, but many feel curiously restrictive and more adjacent to a blend of an RPG and a board game in the way some of the mechanics work. Then systems like Blades in the Dark and Microscope completely changed my perception of what an RPG could do and how it could do it.
But also, perhaps curiously, I either came back to games I had only briefly touched on back then, but which now are the major part of my gaming (CoC 4e then and CoC 7e now) or discovered games that were around back then and which I would have loved, but never even realised existed (Delta Green and Traveller (Classic)). These I play all the time now and here's the interesting thing – despite modern updates (Arc Dream's Delta Green and Traveller (Mongoose 2nd Edition) and the new Masks of Nyarlathotep (5th edition)), what I really enjoy is going back in time and seeing what the older material has to offer. It is definitely different and in so many ways. Style, tone, content. Some of it bad, without a doubt, but also so much of it is good. Or perhaps it's just different and allows me to blend old ideas with new ones. It's also led me to go looking for and dig into games from back then (Ringworld and Elric!) just for the fun of seeing what they have to offer. It's interesting to see how major campaigns have changed (The Enemy Within Campaign is a great example) and why they have changed.
But in the end, it's all just opportunity to have new experiences...



