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Not the criteria all of us are using. I'm often talking about what I believe is probably beneficial to the majority of players. I...

Yeah, that's pretty unusual.

Part of that is because SJG has stopped viewing it as its primary product line quite some time ago.

I don't know anything intrinsic to sandbox play that ties it to encounters or the like and forbids purely session based advancement...

I really appreciate that Daggerheart has been up front with its expectations here as well. It’s designed to be a heroic fantasy game...

Unless you're getting into the Buffy-adjacent games or Conspiracy X that's most of them. They had some other plans (a broad-band supers...

That's true but there are companies who are at least at the high-end cottage industry end, and those people have to pay attention to how...

I think I saw SplatterCat do a intro Let's Play/review of that back when it was in pre-release; it looked interesting.

Comics have done the equivalent on and off for decades.

No, I think you miss the basic point: Properly priming the players, so that they have enough information, but not too much, and retain...

What I mean is that they play very similarly because other than the Technocracy, they have the same in-setting issues and problems...

Not only that, but just hearing about "the second game" is harder, and its already got market penetration that makes it more likely new...

100% right on, @MGibster William Goldman said it of movies, with orders of magnitude more audience and money: “Nobody knows anything”...

I'm just saying that once one game in a genre comes out and is reasonably successful, any successor has a hill to climb.

Again, the setting that's leading up toward Armageddon? And has all the roots around it before then? Mages are theoretically secret...