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I think part of what the article is saying is that a lot of publishers believe that the audience for a "tactical RPG" in limited. That...

Agreed! At its best, Veilguard is a really great cinematic action-adventure game. And at its worst, it’s a very well-polished but...

And you know what? I'd argue that Veilguard is STILL quite good, particularly once you get past the first 10 hours. Certainly it doesn't...

Depends on who you ask. Even as someone who ranked Inquisition last before Veilguard came out, I think it was over-hated within...

Well, lack of time was definitely not the problem with Veilguard. The problem was terrible mismanagement. The game started out with the...

Absolutely. By "worse", I of course mean: I liked less. And it's precisely for the observation you mentioned - straying further from the...

I’m kinda between 3 and 4. A deck of many things always causes a lot of chaos when introduced to a campaign, and certainly has the...

Each entry has certainly strayed further from the tactical RPG design of the original. Whether that makes them worse is a matter of...

DA2 is well worth playing. It still catches a lot of residual flak from its initial reception, which was harmed in part by the cut...

Never played it. Dragon Age 2 was excellent in spite of a few cut corners due to its rushed timeline, and Dragon Age Inquisition, while...

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TLDR, I voted “I didn’t start with D&D,” but it’s kind of complicated what constitutes “starting” and also what constitutes “D&D.” D&D...

Some of the language you’re using here is pretty loaded, but no, I don’t think the rules are necessarily supposed to model anything. 5e...

But that would be doing things the way The Edition That Must Not Be Named did it!

You realize that this very concept was already playtested for the PHB UA and was rejected in the surveys. The reason it keeps getting...