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You don't even need the best designers. Just spend enough money on marketing, you'll be #1. The product itself is almost irrelevant to...

To me it look like an evolution of DnD 4ed, stepping further away from original DnD. Domain cards and class cards are in line with 4ed...

It’s more likely that the collapse of Hasbro would bring down D&D (as a tabletop game) than external competition.

Some have. Some haven't. THAC0. Bards as (functionally) a ridiculously over-complicated PrC. Five bizarrely- (and often...

For the love of God, I hope so. It might force D&D to actually ask important questions of itself. Like whether or not the traditions it...

Ask them if they're at a new company. They'll tell you it's a fully compatible  revised company.

My impression is that most gamers want a game rather than a collaborative world-building exercise, so Daggerheart isn't really competing...

It is worth pointing out that rests in Daggerheart are just that, rests. They aren’t sleep. There’s no inherent connection between a...

I played my first game of Daggerheart today! I was impressed. I think it plays better than it reads, which is saying something because I...

The writing team pretty much tries to beat one over the head with that obligation Yep! Let's not forget the option on page 89 in the...

I'm not trying to backseat DM here, but like, when you say "pass back", what did you do? I feel like this game assumes (and doesn't...

I'm really excited. I managed to grab a box from a FLGS, and now friends are discussing playing an in-person game. There's a bar in my...

LOL. Try reading the book before complaining about what's not in it. Page 6, Touchstones. "TTRPGs: 13th Age from Pelgrane Press...

As mainly a referee I tend to look at that side of things first. So campaign frames, adversaries, countdowns, downtime, etc are all...

No actually. The book describes best practice - and that's DMing in your own style. And fiction-first doesn't mean dice-first, it...