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…wait, what? Could I ask you to expound on this a little?

I’ll just echo the majority here, I think: a serviceable rpg system wedded to some A+ worldbuilding. It did introduce me to the whole idea of a dice pool mechanic, and it definitely gets a point or two for that.

I’m not annoyed enough to complain bitterly about it, but I admit I would have greatly preferred a pdf to a dndbeyond exclusive.

That looks great, but I really kinda feel like the Charms should have been in the Planescape set, even if the information on the Mortuary needed to be a standalone product.

I don’t disagree with you, but I’m quite surprised faction membership isn’t the “players one more thing”, along the lines of dragonmarks in Eberron or dark gifts in Ravenloft. The dead truce probably was a bit overpowered, but damn was it flavorful.

I didn't back either and am unaffected, but Good Lord. Heckna did it's KS in 2020, and is just now shipping?

I’ll toss a vote for Free Leagues’ ‘Alien’. I remember being at PAX the year it came out, and being kind of confused at the idea of it - shouldn’t Alien be a scenario for a broader sci-fi RPG? Why does Alien need its own bespoke system? If you had told me six months ago that my buddies and I...

A point that may or may not be relevant, but I believe Kate had specifically been working on the ‘how to onboard new players’ problem when she left.

This is definitely “time to reread Halmos” territory for me 😀 edit: I will just add that this sort of debate is exactly why I loved the 2e era Planescape line as much as I do.

I'm going to explicitly preface this with the statement: "If we go much farther down this train of thought, I'm going to have to resort to digging out my copy of Halmos and doing some remedial reading", but: wouldn't sets of integers always be larger than sets of real numbers, as integers...

100%. The ‘set of all real numbers’ is larger than the ‘set of all even real numbers’. Both are equally infinite. Calling the default setting of D&D the multiverse is, if I understand correctly, meant to be inclusive of your homebrew world; not so much so we can now claim cainites and garou...

Huh! I somehow completely overlooked this change. In fairness, I'm not sure this is a change from the current edition ;)

I will admit that 5 books in 12 months is more or less “a big hardcover every other month”, but it does hit a bit differently when four of the five come out almost all at once in the fall.

It's probably against forum rules and definitely not germane to the topic of this thread to continue this train of conversation, so I'll just say: extra yikes. Like, "Are we the baddies?" level of yikes.

Yeah, an artifact of when I attended - I used to get serious side-eye for occasionally reading X-Men comics. The D&D books very much stayed at home. That being said, it is very much surreal to see those same people wrap loquacious on how they yearn for 'The Imperium of Man' on FaceBook these days.

During the pandemic, I actually came across the Revised-era book they put out on the Inconnu - well worth a read I think, as it might be the first time I read a Vampire book that felt like something I could actually run at a table for players. Seriously, it was almost surreal to read something...

Oh, 100%. I regret not playing more D&D in college, when my social circle was 99% philosophy and theology students. Would have been wild. That's Catholic school for you, though. They held on to the whole 'satanic panic' business way longer than the consensus did.

In the interest of forum rules I'm going to make exactly one comment on this, but the Book of Tobit reads weirdly like a film script: seriously, it is a very cinematic view of the role of a 'cleric' or 'priest' in an 'adventuring party' is capable of.