Recent content by Parmandur

Yes, given how big the novels have become in recent years, this is probably inevitable at this point.

The "genres" seem to be enumerated separately from the Domains. I reckon these might look more like the Campaign Frames in the new Eberron book.

The Foundry preview also lists out the ten genrea the book will detail somehow: "10 genres of horror: body horror, cosmic horror, dark fantasy, folk horror, ghost stories, gothic horror, disaster horror, occult detective stories, psychological horror, and slasher horror."

Yeah, I think the, Villainous" angle is dimple misdirection.

Same with the first batch. More like "slightly thematically dark" options, but thst does not sizzle.

DCC is now at $7.1 million, and with 30,400 backers has passed Draw Steel! to me the fourth largest number of backers of any campaign on this list with 24 days to go. Probably will pass the number of backers for Gloomhaven soon enough, and seems definitely set to blow away the total dollar...

Again, I think when this thread started, the catagories were curated by humans, but arenow being operated by LLM. It would explain too much.

Not perfectly: the Stormlight Starter Set is not in that category. The Monster Manual is Number One in "Game Pieces" which is mostly WotC D&D books or spare parts for chess sets, or marbles.

True, the Cosmere "all in" had a lot of books with Lore and Adventure material for two Settings, whereas as this one is the Starter Set and the core book plus the unrelated card game and a ton of swag. Might be more people dipping their toes in just some of the core RPG or card material.

OK, a update on the current status, DCC is doing extremely well, trending towards $14.1 million per BackerTracker, but getting ahead of Cosmere is still well within their margin of error with a few weeks to go: That being said, the Cosmere RPG did have a higher number for each day-to-date so...

That's like asking if I consider a certain cookbook part of the Food Network Culinary Universe: a cookbook is a tool to guide in making something, not Scripture.

Is Paizo selling that content in a publication...? Did WotC sell third party content in Dragon or Dungeon magazine...? My point isn't exactly that it should or should not count, but that the situation is so different as to make the comparison inexaxt, apples to oranges. But at this point, if...

Thing is, the existence of partnered content on WotC own platform does radically change the comparison. Different world from TSR in the 90s.

Probably not hurting the total to combine them, though. The biggest amount of interest is that the Books are very popular, and people want that absurdist style to play at the table.

Not at all. They can be followed, and successfully. They can be happily enough undershot, and you would have to be a psychopath to overshoot them, but you cna build and run a dungeon to 5E assumptions. In fact, doing so is a pretty good horror experienxe, or at least an action experience with...