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One thing not mentioned in this article? Matt's soothing voice. (Well, I find it soothing, anyway.) I got into watching his stuff when Youtube listed one of his videos as 'Recommended.' It was pretty entertaining and insightful and I watched a few more and then I subscribed and backed the...

Yes, this. Let's also not forget the liberties Stranger Things has taken with D&D. Going by what I remember of the book, Halliday was about the same age (maybe a few years older) than the kids in Stranger Things. Those kids were clearly learning and playing the game on their own, using what...

I'll give it look as well. Everything seems interesting so far, though the hit point thing still bugs me. D20 hit points in general bug me. "You can roll and possibly get a bunch of hit points or you can take this standard amount, which is just shy of half of what you COULD get." When I run a...

The vast majority of his backers pledged at at a level that includes at least one physical item. The shipping cost I had to add for my copy of the book was $12. Taking that as a baseline, that's roughly $300k in shipping costs... At the very least. However, he was only looking for $50k to fund...

Perhaps the OGL tag is just so they can keep using certain words and terms and this will be different from 3.5/d20. Perhaps Paizo is finally going all out creating an actual system just after launching a new product. I don't know and frankly I'm not a mind right now to really care. I've barely...

We now have the pirate ship stronghold unlocked! Oh, and a new title holder for most successful rpg kickstarter. :)

I'm just glad he uses a script, sticks to it, and doesn't allow for too much dead air or go 'uh... umm....' Sure, there's the magic of editing but he often goes on for long takes. And he's slower than the Zero Punctuation guy.

So, with 20 days to, the kickstarter is at $1,251,825 with 15,611 backers. It's slowed down a bit, but I have a feeling it will reach the 7th Sea-inspired stretch goal by then.

Maybe another stretch goal for a YouTube stronghold with crazy amounts of followers? ;)

I think the #1 take-away from this kickstarter is the fact that a fanbase can be EXTREMELY loyal and willing to throw money at the person they're fans of. Is that a bad thing? I'd say it depends on the person. Anybody not a fan of, say, Zach Snyder is going to look at his fans and go "What are...

$782,670 and 9,225 as of my post. That's now more than half of what 7th Sea made in a month. I hope to have some disposable money soon enough (tax return and looming promotion) that I can toss my money at this Kickstarter. I happened upon Matt Colville's Youtube channel by chance, through a...

What about The Angry GM? That's actually where I first heard about this. The whole Patreon debacle, I mean.

I'm willing to overlook this minor bit of inaccuracy in the show since the show is awesome. Granted, I have gotten nitpicky about things in the past when it comes to historical accuracy (except with this show) or even accuracy of modern things (like South Park's World of Warcraft episode)...

Definitely looking into this.

Well, the published stuff has a brief rundown on the first page that usually ends with 'the players complete the adventure when...' Any meandering and wandering about and general putzing around is all on them. If they want to spend twenty minutes discussing whether or not to trust the npc they...

Worded the way I did, it does sound rather arbitrary. But the whole group levels up when this happens. The way the system is designed is that if you choose to run the adventures that have been published, one adventure gains the players one level at the end. Also, the page count of the adventures...

Just to add what others have said, there's also things that trigger when you get a certain amount of successes. Weapons in FFG's Star Wars have crit ratings; when you get that many successes, you do a critical hit and the GM rolls percentile dice on a critical hit chart. Of course, the NPCs can...

One of the things I love is that - while it has a level-based system - it's up to the GM as when the characters advance in level, not some arbitrary experience system. The basic rules say that when they complete an adventure, they should level up. So if you have them start as starting level...

I'd say it's pretty close to 5E, primarily because Schwalb was also involved with D&D 5E. Boons and Banes are pretty similar to Advantage and Disadvantage. There's the core rules, but there's quite a bit of stuff in the core book that you can use or not use, and house-ruling stuff is...

I anticipate the announcement by FFG of a new L5R rpg, and more great SotDL products.