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I'd take it, given Owen's added input.

Incidentally people who have seen the internal numbers at both companies claim Pathfinder never outsold 4e: https://alphastream.org/index.php/2023/07/08/pathfinder-never-outsold-4e-dd-icymi/

I like new when it helps the game better scratch an itch I have, curseborne falls into this category for me lately-- it's a decidedly novel spin on the WOD formula that favors crossover games, and the lore about everything being 'curses' fits everything together into a universal magic system...

One thought is that TTRPG is niche enough on the whole that the terminally online are still really important to the overall market-- even when they aren't most of the sales (and sometimes they are), they're most of the people promoting games to their groups of normie friends.

I really love it, it is a big part of what makes me interested in a fantasy setting in the long term, whether for reading books or to play in them for an RPG. The Magic system is even more important than other elements for me because I want to be able to understand what my mage characters are...

Oh yeah I feel that, as much as I like most of the perspectives there's sections early on where Pirate jumps to the Flos and Chandrar for what felt like a while, and I just stopped for the night when it happened because I didn't care as much-- some of those characters grew on me when it started...

That's actually my favorite part of it, and while I still love it, I'm getting a bit of plot fatigue since volume 8 hit the gas and hasn't really stopped since with regard to the main plot stuff (even though the plot is good) that had been a slower burn of foreshadowing and churning background...

There's always the Gravesong books as a shorter gateway story to the Wandering Inn! I'll take "Worth the Candle" as a recommendation.

LITRPG is a genre of fantasy inspired by games and their rules, their universe generally includes a 'canon' rules system, although how that happens and how fundamental to reality that actually is differs between stories. The game rules do things like give the characters Skills, Feats, and Spells...

Heh, gotta be honest, I really love LITRPG-- I didn't think I would and there's a lot of it that's decidedly amateurish (in the sense that places like Royal Road are similar to fanfic sites to begin with) but The Wandering Inn, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and some of the higher quality litrpg anime...

hard disagree, country is the worst genre.

My experience of the Mythic Rules is that the most valuable part isn't really a full mythic campaign (which competes with our beloved Free Archetype) but the option to use the best parts of the provided material in a normal PF2e game. Which is good, because I have a couple of players obsessed...

Dungeon Crawler Carl is excellent, I read it after I caught up in The Wandering Inn (which is absolutely incredible, and also very TTRPG, set in a more traditional fantasy setting), Princess Donut really steals the show.

Personally I haven't been impressed with the WoD5 lines (especially not H5), and have been following Onyx Path's Curseborne, since I liked COFD, and this seems to be a cleaned up spiritual successor. Which follows on from what some of you guys were talking about-- Paradox is no longer approving...

Broadly I think that the difference between the current market and the 90s market is that while TTRPG is bigger now, there's more games too. DND is still the heavyweight, even though its taken hits lately, and they had some success with a slower production schedule (although personally, they...