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I read OP's question "what version 'or its equivalent'" as offshoots like ToV/A5E etc. Or, more likely, your post has gone entirely over...

Luck and inspiration definitely fall into that category them in most cases.

D&D, not Hasbro, and I feel they have exceeded that for most of the past 10 years, so maybe not that impressive after all. Certainly not...

ok, I agree that that one is hard to reach, but you wrote that ‘2.5-5% increase would be considered a phenomenal success’ and I very...

@Reynard, one of the fun things IMHO about Fabula Ultima is that joy of building your character. It's a bit like 3e/PF2 mulitclassing...

huh, you wrote 2.5 to 5%, not 50

what do you base that on? Having one extra book should pretty easily accomplish that Also, it is below their growth rate the last 10...

Almost every time someone points out a specific, so-called "modern" innovation, it's something that has been around forever; the main...

Oh, I will not deny that there's a marketing aspect. I merely deny that it is "performative playtesting" which would mean that the...

finally, we have identified what makes something a JRPG ;)

that are the IFs, agreed, they did not manage that with me. Pretty sure if they had released a somewhat different version it would not...

eh, didn’t work for me, I do not like 2024, I prefer 2014. Maybe that is the consequence of an evergreen strategy, I certainly wanted...

can it be both, sure. Do I think their approach is awful at getting meaningful results, absolutely. I said a few times that their...

the way WotC does it yes, it’s at least as much marketing as it is playtesting

For me, and as others have noted, "modern" might broadly equate to what is now called narrativist. Player ability to change the...