misery mansion

It probably means something like mothership as well, where the character sheet is designed such that it guides you on how to fill it without the need for a separate book.

But really I’m not sure I agree much with the article. I could be wrong but it seems to me that the audience is growing and therefore what the audience want is becoming more diverse.

My own very biased experience is I that I started playing dungeons and dragons, literally having no clue about this gigantic iceberg of other stuff with a 50+ year history behind it. Did that for a few years, through the pandemic etc.

Fast forward a bit, the idea of playing Combat rpgs now (so pathfinder, 5.5, whatever) interests me almost not at all. I want to tell stories and try out new personalities. I’ve now played a ton of Call of Cthulhu (which I’d argue is extremely rules light if you want it to be), Delta Green, Mork Borg, Vaesen and would have played dozens more if I had a more local group to play with.

Would love to play some Blades though… Weirdly a bit like Delta Green, you’d think it would be great for easier to organise one shots but actually you need a short campaign to get the most of it, I would say

I might be on the minority on all that, I don’t know!

I’ve had success with this in exactly this situation

https://winghornpress.com/adventures/a-wild-sheep-chase/

Thanks I’ll check it out!

How do you rate BLM as a GM. I think one of if not THE favourite of mine is Joe O’Brien for how well he marries the Show presentation with his respect for player choices. He’s likely underrated IMHO

That said, whilst I am a big dropout fan generally, I haven’t yet managed to get in to any dimension 20 stuff. I would appreciate any recommendations!