Also, no danger of scurvy if their raft gets lost at sea.

I don’t remember any games coming from China becoming popular outside of it, but from the top of my head, I can think of the “Chinese Paladin/ Legend of Sword and Fairy”-Series of Asian fantasy RPGs, which seems to be still going strong (but as is the way of the world is now living as quite a number of mobile games).…

The idea of a normal burger with Camembert, patty, and some fruit-based sauce (why would you add ketchup to Camembert?) sounds nice, but as buns, wouldn’t it be overwhelming? Or is it creamy, young Camembert instead of the more salty and sharp variety?

In this case, with the copied manual, the too-cheap-to-be-true prize tag, and the bad communication, I’m betting on a scam. Miniature heavy board games can pull in a lot of money on Kickstarter, so I wouldn’t be surprised if scammers jumped on that (there have been other boardgame scams before, of course).

Every reason is a good reason to play Silent Hill 2! It’s still in my favorite five games.

I’m more confused by the girl’s giant chin in the video. Or is her mouth too close to her nose?

Well, as a German ... we normally also eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, with the difference that lunch is the big “hot” meal, and dinner is a “cold” meal, mostly similar to the brotzeit described above. Basically it’s sandwiches. You’ll have different kinds of bread with butter or a kind of cream cheese (?), plus cheese…

Playing online with a webcam or via voicechat is totally possible! Roll20.net is an online game table, and they also offer the possibility to search for game groups. Most DM are happy to introduce new players to RPGs (and if it’s a terrible group, leaving is much easier online).

As does this tabletop RPG: Good Society

The soundtrack alone is so disturbing, I had one player ask me to turn it off in a not even particularly scary session of a super hero RPG.

I actually like Serpent Isle more than Ultima VII Part One. It’s more linear than Part One, but has some really cool sequences like the dream land or creating the frankenstein creature, and it gets really dark once the banes are released. I played it so much it broke ... I did that with Ultima VI as well.

That would be great. Or a sequel in the same setting.

Ha! I saw that section but somehow missed you mentioned Planescape. I take everything back - well, not everything, because this comment section is 80% JRPGs, and I wanted to mention some alternatives (even though I dearly love JRPGs, and am currently replaying Persona 3).

I have the same problem - I hate eating small portions, because I won’t feel satisfied, and I also like sweets and unhealthy stuff. The only thing that works for me is intermittent fasting. Somehow not eating is okay for me psychologically, but eating “just a little” won’t work.

What, even if you tend to JRPGs, at least mention Planescape: Torment! Setting and characters are still some of the best around.

What kind of backwards logic made him think you might like him if he tortured your fiance? In cases like this, I understand the “I have final word on my character”-guy, because, no, my character won’t die from a botched driving roll just because the GM is a capital D Dick.

Wow, that is even worse! Yeah, I also developed a deep aversion against the GM doing solo stuff with one players - sure, secrets can be really cool, but to be honest, the reveal is often underwhelming. It’s often much more fun to know what’s going on and either push the other characters or let your own character run…

That would have been a great answer, but I was way to flustered to think of anything smart. Today, I’d hopefully do better.

I luckily never ran into a problem with GMs and their significant others, but that reminds me of a session where we had an in-game traitor, which nobody knew and only found out after the game ended. Of course it was the guy who always drove to the game with the GM.

Tabletop games are still my main hobby, but man did I have some shitty games over the years (and not the ones where everything goes off the rails in the most amusing way possible), like: