Recent content by Parmandur

Convention play is an interesting thing to look at, but I would not expect it to represent much of anything. Lots of people (such as myself) have ever played at a Convention, and I would imagine one would be inclined to play something different at a Convention than one does regularly at home, or...

Yeah, only slimer D&D Sci-fi likes I can think of were OSR style stuff.

The borders of genre have always been loose.

Yup, a lot of Sci-fi D&D these days. Legends of Avantrisvis flooding my socials with ads for a new Sci-fi 5E project coming to Kickstarter soon, Neon Odessey, looks like another multi-million crowdfunding contender: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofavantris/neon-odyssey

Brotherwise Games has issued an exciting announcement about their latest RPG product: https://youtube.com/shorts/fBKTDcADDtI?si=GPW9VWsTqdkTtlmB

That's a well designed survey: it had a whole bunch of interesting follow up questions to "I haven't tried or gotten the game"

Coming with Hope & Fear, isn't it?

Tolkien sort of invented non-portal fantasy (that is, what Lloyd Alexander called "High Fantasy"). Portal fantasy used to be the only game in town.

I mean, even their talk of bringing in Luke Gygax and Greyhawk was done in the Name of inclusovity, "One Party".

I mean, part of the power of apology is that if done well people can read a lot into it.

That would be a weird apology since that disclaimer is still in place on all odler products.

Is Weis also Mormon? I looked and haven't found any info on that, though it seems plausible enough. She isn't outspoken the same way if so. It is true that different Christian groups differ on a number of things, but a love for Horror as a genre is pretty widespread ecumenically in my observation.

I'm not sure about Weiss religious beliefs, Hickman is the devout Mormon. Christians of various stripes tend to be huge Horror fans, historically. Horror is traditionally about morality tales being played out as tragedy. That was actually Hickman's main beef with 2E Ravenloft that he...

It is at least remote. The $10,000 is preceded by a series of smaller commissions for pieces from the folks that apply as well.

Yeah, pretty much. Seems a good opportunity for the right artist to build their resume and could lead to more work long term, felt worth sharing.