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I mean there has to be some rest-state at the start of the campaign.

I still say this assumes the rules book content needs to be baked into the VTT for the latter to be useful/useable, which is a kind of...

It can pretty heavily change the actual numbers aimed at in the Kickstarter, though. Number of backers to make it work is not a trivial...

I can see calling the ones on that list I'm familiar with rules-medium.

This was, when drilling down, what most caused me to shift to RuneQuest many decades ago; even though it didn't have much more...

For sure, it’s a more realistic game in many ways - charging that machine gun nest is truly heroic! Though when highly skilled...

To complicate the discussion a little bit more (sorry), what GURPS ends up incentivizing you do can increase this 'slow to operate'...

Only time I see KSes that would be having only 20 physical print runs signed up for are ones that aren't doing the Kickstarter with...

I think it would be lame to enter an AI image in the Pumpkin Spice contest, but I was thinking of working on this Monster, but never go...

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...