Al Billings

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• Mikko Parviainen (he/him) commented on Bundle of Laundry
  (Cubicle 7 has an unusual level of professionalism and production values for a RPG company, as most of them are kind of shoestring operations, WotC excluded). Well, yes and no. Cubicle 7 does brilliant work, yes, but others do roleplaying games on the same level, with probably less of a budget, and nobody has anymore big budgets, apparently. I've now bought my first D&D rules in 25 years, the D&D Fifth Edition by the mentioned Wizards of the Coast, and to me it seems that even their RPG department is working on a quite constrained budget, compared to the situation...
• IdiotSavant commented on Bundle of Laundry
  The 1981-era rulesset makes me shudder with horror, but you can work past it. And there are some great adventures which are worthy of the source material and which produce that Lovecraftian creepy feeling when people realise what is going on....
• Mikko Parviainen (he/him) commented on Bundle of Laundry
  Well, Laundry is a horror game, so the rule would be appropriate... To be serious, I didn't find the rules to be a problem, really, but I usually run my games with a light-handed approach. Mostly I like the background information - rules are something you can change for what you like....
• gasdive (he, him, ia) commented on Bundle of Laundry
  Another vote here for the IT people having experienced it. I was working in a place where I worked onsite and my company was charging my time out at 235 dollars an hour (of which I saw just over 10%...). I wanted a floppy (this was a while ago). I wasn't allowed to have a new one. I was given a small box of second hand ones and told to see if I could find one that worked. I realised later that this must have been the box where the normal employees put the floppies that didn't work as no-one...
• paws4thot commented on Bundle of Laundry
  That account goes nicely with my experience of being told by a manager that "it's good discipline to fill in your timesheet the day before it's due", despite my knowing accountants who consider doing that to be false accounting....