Recent content by Parmandur

Thanks for clarifying, I agree with all that. Even with an explicitly generic system, Plotweaver, Johnny O'Neal of Brotherwise recently said on BlueSky that they don't expect it to be usable for any genre or style, just to create a big tent that allows a variety of tech or magic levels to...

No, what @TwoSix seems to me to be saying is that 5E or BitD can be engineered to other modes, same as GURPS or Savage Worlds, and being supposedly "generic" is somewhat marketing. I am not sure thst I fully agree fully, but it is true that 5E has been successfully adapted to a large number of...

I'd say it is less presentation, and more about conscious design. Take the Plotweaver system Brotherwise Games is using for the Cosmere games. By design, they are making it so that you can take an element from any Setting fir the game, and use it with another, so putting a Mistborn in a Space...

They...have done a lot of handpainted covers in the past decade? Specifically Tyler Jacobson covers. They also put out a ton of Magic cards that are canvas paintings. This is from one of the Forgotten Realms Magic cards, but on this page you can see him posing with one of his paintings on...

I think that example rather proves their point, people have used 3E and 5E for just about every genre and Setting.

Seems reasonable. I'm partial to the Cosmere RPG, so I am trying to temper my read on the situation. But the evidence, such as this survey and the Amazon monthly sales numbers, do seem to indicate it is selling very well indeed.

At the numbers sold, probably.

Vaesen at 50+, Dragonbane at 100+. Lots of notable RPGs don't seem to rate a monthly number at all.

Out of curiosity, the Call of Cthulu Core books are each at 100+ in the past month, Daggerheart Core does not have a number, Pathfinder 2E Player Core is at 50+, and the Stormlight Archive Starter Set is at 200+.

It was originally, but thst never made it to print until the History of Middle Earth.

Or is it...?

Well, they are not portal Fantasy...but they are also set in the future or past.

Well, given that the DMG has a fairly full (as in, about as much detail and info as the original Folio) presentation of Greyhawk as a Setting to run Campaigns, thing is newer players in the past two years have been primed to be open to borrowed Greyhawk nostalgia by WotC.

I mean, granted as far as it goes, I don't see any of that as a reason to not suspect this could be for Season of Champions. I would expect either a full veto of this material or adoption close to as is, not much back and forth.

I have already looked into it, and Legends of Avantris has a avowed anti-AI art stance, it seems that it is all made by human artists.