Recent content by SteveC

I know a bunch of you live in my area, and I always mean to do a meet up at Gamehole Con. This year is the year!

I think it's because a heavy narrative players create content is something extremely difficult to do with a short quick start. I've run both the Fabula Ultima and Daggerheart Quickstarts, and I did my very best to encorporate those rules in the games. I ran both of them with experienced...

Back in the 90s, I was a young man who was trying to write. I ran into Mark at Gen Con and had a great discussion with him. He very much intended the game to be about personal horror. He genuinely seemed unhappy with how people were playing it in practice. I never played the game because of the...

For me, I'd be genuinely surprised to see it. When I'm looking at a creative product, from an RPG to a computer game, to a book I know as much as I can about it before even getting the urge to pick it up. If I'm looking for something, I likely know a lot about it. I've read reviews, seen first...

I don't think you can say it better than this. I have almost 50 years in gaming. A ton of that is in D&D. There are so many things to do with roleplaying that are outside of the typical D&D experience. Heck, there are games that do the D&D experience better than D&D! Everyone brings their own...

It seems to me that the chronic shortages of the game are clearly related to how fast it sold compared to expectations. The number that I've seen is 2500% of expectations. It's hardly surprising that you saw repeated shortages, especially in parts of the world where shipping is more complicated...

I'd much rather this thread be about how Daggerheart crushed expected sales, and has a plan for future development, rather than how 5E was JUST AS AMAZING out of the gate, okay? To that end: what do people think about the preorder for the expansion for the game? In a recent thread I posted...

People have been talking a lot about "D&D Killers" as in "is this the game the next D&D killer?" And I think, in a broad sense, there won't be one any time soon. It's not viable, really, in any way. What there are, for me anyway, are games that kill my interest in playing D&D. This game is one...

I had a chance to play with him as a DM now more than a few years ago, and really soaked in all the history he talked about. All my best wishes to his family and friends.

This is great news. I'm running an actual in-person Daggerheart game in 2026 so I'm excited at everything coming up.

This is awesome! The Royals had a D&D adventure as a giveaway this year. I have a friend who lives there, and he picked up a copy. I have to ask, what is so RPG-friendly about that area? I've only been there to visit, but it seems like there is a lot of nerd-friendly stuff going on there.

I back a lot of Kickstarters. And Backerkit and Twitch.io and I'm sure more than a few other sites. 99% of the time all I am looking for is the PDF. For other stuff, I have to be going to run the game in person to want it. Even for books: I just don't have the room. So yeah, don't give me the...

I would say the answer, in a broad sense, is "no." Of course there are people who are interested in it, just like there are people who love the Avatar game, but in a broad sense, it hasn't attracted large scale attention. This is despite having everything you need at launch: core books in...

Mythic Bastionland. This game is quite simple, and you play with knights with a pregenerated backstory. There are a ton of them and they're very creative. It takes only a few minutes to generate the quest to get started, so pass out characters and have the players pick while you're generating...

I see that there is a Foundry module for the game that was last updated two weeks ago, making me think it is usable. With that in place, I think the game would be a lot of fun.