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Well, whilst D&D of course remains overwhelmingly the most popular RPG, I think the momentum seems to be pretty much gone. I don't think...

I agree and think if the modularity they talked about in NEXT was actually developed further, a lot of complaints could be answered in 5E.

I don’t think that guidance is 1) all that realistic with its 6-8 fights and assumptions of no long rests between any of them, and 2)...

you can always go lower than what the encounter building rules tell you. People apparently do that today and are happy with it. The...

I agree that you cannot design by committee. But having someone on staff who, y'know, is actually a professional at designing surveys...

I didn't say anything about design being good or bad. I talked about WotC's reasons for doing this or that. I don't see why WotC has any...

so you think that the casual gamer will bounce off a game with tighter math? If a tightly-designed D&D could capture the same audience...

but no one really knows where that line is. Is any game with elves, dwarves, dragonborn, barbarians, and sorcerers D&D? Clearly not, see...

It hasn’t finished cooking yet but The Broken Empires will be a new ’sim-lite’ RPG when it arrives. This is a new system which aims to...

This has been one of the worst years in a long time. Even 2020 at least had a light a the end of the tunnel.

Development takes time. The first setting or rules supplement will really be the test of where the game sits in the market. This appears...

Eh, I dont think it says much about Daggerheart as a whole (though to be fair I haven't seen any DH products doing gangbusters on...

definitely true, but they do not have a big supplement ready, so…

That's not true, though... 4e dropped in 2008 after the preview in 2007. Pathfinder dropped in 2009. Paizo saw 4e coming, knew the GSL...

Obviously I see extra art and a larger font as unnecessary, but the other two are a choice I can understand.