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I’m really looking forward to Wandering Blades, an OSR-based Wuxia game by Daniel Kwan.

Ars Magica Definitive Edition

New edition of RuneQuest? Did I miss an announcement?

Billy Joel played piano on "Leader of the Pack" by the Shangri-Las, in 1964. He was 16.

Yep! Though a part of me deep down hopes there’s also a place in the game for something like her rather twisted short story Ponies.

I’m not sure if a cottagecore is my thing, but I’ll be buying it sight unseen because Kij Johnson is writing/developing it. She’s one of my favorite authors.

Yes. The Kickstarter was run under Rich Thomas’ account, but that’s because he’s the head of Onyx Path. They started doing Kickstarters when accounts had to be in a person’s name, not a company’s.

I would have loved to have selected five or more games! My three were: Ars Magica Definitive Edition Dolmenwood The Between Close runners up were: Stonetop (I ultimately didn’t choose it because I wasn’t confident it would actually come out this year.) Curseborne Coriolis: The Great Dark...

I agree that Apocalypse World does this well. There’s a fantasy/medieval hack of 2nd edition that I played for a while. Savage Worlds also handles groups of followers well, though it doesn’t really feature in any of its settings.

I would have nominated The Between, but it’s already been nominated. I’ll nominate: Ars Magica Definitive Edition https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/atlas-games/ars-magica-5th-edition-definitive Dolmenwood https://necroticgnome.com/pages/about-dolmenwood

I think that Exalted Funeral acts as a distributor for OSE to game stores. Shadowdark is only available from the publisher, so you’d have to ask them.

Yeah, the Book of Vile Darkness was firmly wedged in a 13 year old boy’s idea of what’s vile and dark. My group dubbed it “The Book of Tiddies and Gore”.

I had the same reactions. There’s a lot of marketing fluff on how unique it’s going to be, but nothing about the actual setting. The art's cool, but that only goes so far. It really doesn’t inspire confidence to me. It’s so vague and unfocused that it set of all sorts of red flags.

That’s what more or less guided my choices: Balance/tuning and compatibility with the new versions of the classes. For example, I really like the Bladesinger, but it was already revised fairly recently in Tasha's, so I didn’t choose it. The Swashbuckler, OTOH, had features that are now...

I’m also happy to buy books I know I will enjoy reading, even if I’m unlikely to use them. A lot of Ars Magica's supplements fall into that category for me.