Recent content by Count_Zero

Continued GMing Shadows of the Dragon Queen for 5e.2024, hitting the 1 year mark on the (admittedly monthly) game.

No longer allegedly: For the book's anniversary, there was an annotated edition of Heir to the Empire published, where Zahn confirmed he was shipped a crate of WEG Rulebooks for reference. Same with the collected edition of Dark Empire.

Some of it is access to license specific world building, including some heavy lifting when it comes to mechanical prep for certain setting specific elements. Some of it is getting a game where I have confidence that if I'm trying to run something like X, it can do X. For example, I don't need...

I think the Pay DM thing also ties into the situation these days with people having, or feeling like they need to have, a side hustle in some form, with a side of the promotion of the mindset that any creative work worth doing well should be financially compensated for (which, perhaps wrongly...

Nice. It feels very visually reminiscent (in a good way) to the combat screens in some JRPGs like the Lunar series.

So, depending on the game, I may use a grid-free map for theater of the mind for general positioning - keeping track of what room characters are in, and so on. That said, for more cinematic action games (like Feng Shui), I won't use a map and instead might use some photos or art to set the...

Same, though I'd add that there needs to be a way to still play the game if the funky dice (or deck of cards) is lost in whole or in part.

Did you order this online (and if so where) or get it through a FLGS?

And what's your source for them (or Marvel/Disney, or Warner Bros-Discovery/DC or Dynamite, or Fantagraphics, or Dark Horse, anyone else whose product is caught in this mess) not having filed that statement?

Can you elaborate on "proper paperwork"? That the proper paperwork wasn't filed with Diamond when the inventory was sent on consignment, or that the proper paperwork wasn't filed when Diamond filed for bankruptcy?

Pretty much same here - or at least if there's any significant shifts between the old and new version. For example, I haven't picked up the new edition of The One Ring, because it's not clear if it's actually that different than the Cubicle 7 version I already have.

I don't have hard sales numbers (I don't work in the TTRPG industry), but it is an assessment on what I see in discourse, in terms of new titles on DriveThru and Itch - and while the root games of those (like Blades in the Dark) are about 5 years old, there are newer games Powered by Borg (for...

It can be, but there are other less restrictively licensed systems. Heck, Powered by the Apocalypse has the same license as Forged in the Dark, and Forged in the Dark probably has more active development than its parent system. (Also, I remember seeing lots of Third parties writing stuff for...

For the record, I'm basing my claim in terms of what I'm seeing in terms of other development work - not just in terms of relevant play, but also looking at (for example), when Zine Quest comes around, what are people doing game material for? What am I seeing getting additional play material on...

Well, not totally - of the Big 3 general RPG rules system structures right now, the two outside of D&D are *Borg (which it's explicitly textual to the setting that everything is ultimately futile - there's no way to stop the end of the world and preventing your characters from coming a messy and...