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I don't know about the fiction market, but for TTRPGs here's what our Kickstarter shipping destinations look like for Monstrous...

I didn’t read the linked article in detail, just skimmed it. Nuanced success systems are a good thing, in my opinion, but they can go...

As others have commented, pretty much all of Hasbro’s product is produced in China, so they are going to be hit hard by the tariffs even...

I suspect the biggest risk to WotC at this point is that Hasbro goes down and takes WotC with it.

Burning Wheel has multiple meta currencies which are used to track the development of characters. One is generated through achieving...

GURPS matches that description quite well. The bell curve means the early part of learning tends to be more impactful than later points...

I like flexible systems so I can cover a wide range of things. For eight books total, I would probably go with: SWADE core Fantasy...

While I agree (as a consumer) I would also presume that people will only have so much discretionary spend. So they may choose to back...

I was thinking more along the lines of: if your distribution hub was in the UK (for example) then tariffs would only apply to the...

Is there any benefit in shifting the default distribution hub to somewhere outside the USA? Then product with a final destination other...

Our group is not adversarial in the slightest. We’ve all been playing for decades, including playing together for at least 20 years as...

I answered ‘yes’ but the answer is more like ‘it depends’. Which isn’t a no… Where psionics are in-genre they clearly need to be there...

I was a big fan of the Rolemaster Spell law divide of magic types into arcane, divine, and mentalism(psionics) which narratively worked...

To the OP question, Savage Worlds’ Dramatic Task system is an excellent tool for situations like this. I would probably run it as a...

Worlds Without Number by Kevin Crawford has great rules for creating factions and running them to give the feeling of a living world...