Spoiler alert: you're not wrong.

I had to qualify it with "y'all" for that reason, among others.

Oh yeah, the link to the bundle is important - GO HERE AND SAVE BIG!

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LAD BIBLE (through their GAMING BIBLE sub-brand).

I best remember them as the most persistent vultures from back when sesamerot was gaining traction; they kept sending me a contract to sign that would let them use my videos without paying me.

I never reached out to them. They sent it like 4 times.

I believe the makers of No Man's Sky did in fact make No Man's Sky, yes.

Puzzle Pirates

Sadly it also went miles to explain how Bea Arthur really was the load-bearing pillar of the ensemble.

Subversive TTRPG about exploring small charming Icelandic crypts:

BJÖRK MORGUE

The world itself is so weird & well-realized. Imagine a blend of X-Files, Twin Peaks, Deus Ex, Naked Lunch, Stranger Things, & Community. And even that's not doing the setting justice.

If you like collaborative storytelling that can go in any direction, Over The Edge is a must have.

🙏4⏳, 💜🐼Z

OTE 3rd Ed improves significantly on the format, in part by establishing its setting as multiversal & even more malleable. Plus the art & design only got better.

I especially love how it contextualizes the system as a way to push-back against GM railroading. The system is there to empower players!

But oh, if you've been craving a TTRPG experience where storytelling is the main course & not the side corn, then you really owe it to yourself to check out Over The Edge. What you lose in crunchy combat & granular realism, you gain in infinite narrative possibilities!

Once you see how there's 3 general pillars upon which TTRPGs owe their wider appeal (gamism, narrativism, & simulationism), & acknowledge narrativism is the one least likely to be the gen-pop pleaser, you can see how all the looting & prepping & number crunching is what draws folks to the table.

OTE differs by favoring narrative solutions, in which failure is itself a form of success (cos it makes a cooler story). Getting to that point, however, requires the belief that a TTRPG needn't be a precise simulation or a game to be won.

Not a solid pitch if you prefer winning/simulating!

Side note: I consider White Wolf's Storyteller system the "beige-neutral" of GNS balance. Its system gives nigh-equal balance to physical, intellectual, & social problem solving, practically treating all 3 as roughly equivalent.