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Yeah, but that doesn't automatically stop someone who already had the resources and a big part of the work done from going ahead. But...

That said, I don't think this is necessarily true with the less or unknown one-man-band creators and the like; they're often depending...

That was it; it always seemed to me that a lot of KS are as much about gaging interest as the actual funds involved, and if they...

Probably true, but also much harder to actually identify; at best you can look at some statistics on VTT platforms and maybe convention...

To nitpick a bit, what gets released on a self-publishing platform, what gets bought in the broader market, and what gets played are...

I definitely think games with a lot of rules exceptions, usually in the form of "feats" or other "special abilities" inherently make a...

I see no reason to believe crunch ever left. Mythras and BRP have thriving communities with new material being released and Mythras, at...

This is why I've claimed that a lot, maybe most, incarnations of D&D are actually more complex than the Hero System once you get away...

Are you sure that's true with the smallfry? I've seen a couple people make a second try at it if they didn't make goal the first time...

Pulling out degenerate cases is a popular habit when attempting to attack some other approach or position, and its not surprising coming...

If you consider them kind of a subsystem as a set, I can see that. Other than grappling (which often turns into its own at least...

"Meanwhile almost any system feels easy and intuitive if it's what you are used to." Ain't that the truth. That's one reason D&D...

The big problem is that they were often, maybe usually, vastly out of power sync with the OD&D material they were theoretically designed...

I haven't seen them in a store for many years. I have seen old copies of them on eBay, and I still have the first three in a box...

What category do you put universal tactical options (i.e. ones that don't require a special character component to access) in?