Recent content by Parmandur

The public portion is not a balance playtest, it is a vibe check. It is not marketing so much as marketing research, to determine what people like or dislike.

I actually expect future versions to be less radical than 2024. More art refreshes with some bits and bobs moved around.

Yeah, just on the reading the rules level, I am impressed with how they made a system that under the hood works very differently from D&D (Encounter based, all Skills all the time, no attrition angle, narrative focus, etc.) while still being very familiar on the basic phenomenal level with...

It wasn't a black hole, they regularly made changes and said that what wasn't being changed was well received.

Thanks! "Products must be available for purchase to consumers through retail channels (not crowdfunding fulfillment) between January 1, 2025, AND December 15, 2025." That could explain some exclusions.

Yeah, we don't really know enough to ay what it may exclude yet. Psion was pretty clearly for Dark Sun given the Wild Talent code d Feats they promised would be tied to Backgrounds, similar to what we now know are in Ravenloft.

Right, by design, for guesstimate purposes. I assume ~100 pages is an overshoot. I don't think we have enough info to say what might be excluded from a storyline supplement until we know more about the storyline.

These are the awards for stuff that came out in 2025...? Not the first half of 2026...?

I mean, just because some people feel one way about something doesn't mean that is going to be the only feedback they get.

Maybe, maybe not: it's not a purely thematic Splatbook, it is a Season tie-in to a specific campaign involving a war with the Red Wizards of Thay. Takes all kinds to fight a war. However, the point of of my exercise was to try and give the maximum page count for the crunch to compare to the...

AL has a whole scene that they probably don't want to disrupt, and is pretty independent. The Encounters seem to be about drumming up business for stores with low stakrs casual-friendly drop in games.

Thanks for the anecdote. That would make sense with the hypothesis that this is doing well with novel readers.

Could go either way: for the purposes of estimating page count, I am assuming all 18 Subclasses other than the cellar Ravenloft and Dark Sun are in this book, to maximize the percentage thst might be crunch.

@Baumi I saw you say you just played this game, I would love to hear about your experience.

Was only able to listen to part of it, sounds like a pretty strong push.