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And my answer to that remains that re-skinning a sorcerer is fine for a one-shot or something like that, but doesn't have the depth to represent psionics as a distinct type of magic with multiple different paths. It's fine for Stranger Things where Eleven is more-or-less unique (at least as far...

LOTR in many ways forms the core of what dwarves are in fantasy. There are plenty of dwarves in other sources who aren't clones of Gimli, but usually they can be summed up as "LOTR dwarf except for X." There's no similar core for goliaths except the general Big Guy trope, because goliaths were...

This seems about as good as can be expected within the constraints of 5e. It's no Expanded Psionics Handbook, but I very much doubt Wizards is going to give us a whole book just about psionics. For something that's likely to be a smallish part of another book, like the Artificer was in Eberron...

Oh, they'll be back.

I love me a good Noodle Incident, as long as they get to stay unexplained. As a bad example, we did not need to learn what actually happened in Budapest.

I partially blame Kickstarter. Kickstarter makes it relatively easy to launch a new game and find people who think "Yeah, that sounds cool, I want me some of that." A lot of the games sold will find their way to someone's bookshelf and never hit the table – particularly if there's a lengthy...

Savage Worlds itself was first published in 2003, so it's been around for 22 years. The latest edition was released in 2018. However, individual settings tend to be limited in scope – quantity over... well, not quality because they're doing good stuff, but depth might be a better word. PEG have...

Thing is, back in 2020 he clearly thought the statements of Bledsaw were enough to cut business ties over. For one reason or another, he has decided that publishing CSIO and using JG's portion of the money from that to bail them out from their Kickstarter commitments (even if it's not a debt to...

I think doing so is impossible, unless they also step back to 90s TV production. The reason DS9 is so good is that we get to know the characters: Sisko, Kira, Dax, O'Brien, Bashir, Odo, Quark, Worf, other Dax, and Jake. There's also a whole lot of supporting cast that shows up again and again...

There's a classic joke that's around in a couple of different versions. One is told here by Paul McCartney. Getting into business with nazis is much like bleeping goats. Do it once, and it will overshadow all your other accomplishments. And in this case, Goodman can't even plead ignorance...

Clint and Jodi Black, of Pinnacle Entertainment Games fame, are working on a "Fey in LA" urban fantasy setting where you play fey and other supernatural types in 1927 LA. I don't know when it'll be released, but they have a Patreon going for it.

The 7th son of a 7th son being special is pretty standard mythology. Adding a generation on top of that to create a reality-warper... I think that's a Pratchett original, though it's not a huge leap that another generation of the same would be even more special. Though in Pratchett's version...

That's what I was getting at in an earlier post. If you look at Eberron for example, you have natural homelands for dwarves (Mror Holds), halflings (Talenta Plains), elves (Aerenal, Valenar), gnomes (Zilargo) goblinoids (Darguun), and (half-)orcs (Shadow Marshes, Demon Wastes), and they even...

Thank you for the correction on the timeline. Also, I'm like 95% sure that the reason Paradox considers the latest Vampire as the 5th edition is because that lets them call it VV which looks like vampire teeth.

I don't know if it was first, but Runequest was certainly early on the first point at least. My understanding is that the mechanics of the system to a large degree was a reaction of Steve Perrin's to D&D's passive AC defense, and how that didn't at all match his experience from the SCA where he...

Sure, Warhammer has been successful. But influential? I guess you could make the case that Warhammer 3e inspired Star Wars/Genesys via weird dice, but that's within the same company so I'm not sure that counts.

I believe Paradox bought all of White Wolf's IP originally, and the ones Onyx now owns directly (which also includes Scarred Lands) were bought from Paradox, not CCP. But that's quibbling about details.

Not really, no. Goliaths are a wholesale invention from Wizards, and I believe they first popped up in Races of Stone which probably came out around 2005 (can't be hedgehogged to look up exact year, but it was during 3.5e). But since they're a D&D invention, they don't really exist in that...