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A good point, but that's a bias that applies almost everywhere on ENW. For example, I know lots of people who only use something like Google Sheets for character keepers and Roll With Me or similar for dice. But most of those folks aren't here.

I keep hearing great things about that. I don't think I'll be running anything that would need it for a while, but at some point I need to dig in and figure out how to put together a custom game.

This isn't to downplay the results at all, but I wonder if it took the top spot in part because of community- or publisher-based promotion—other companies definitely sent emails about their games being nominated. But if it turns out that enough people made accounts just to vote for it, that's...

LIEF rides the momentum, suddenly sure, despite everything, that Pelor has no plans for him to die here. He kicks off into the gap, searching the opposite wall of the crevasse. He wasn't trained for this. But he was taught to do whatever it takes to find his quarry. Lief realizes he won't make...

Wow. Was not expecting a narrative game to top this list!

LIEF blocks everything out. The sound of rushing water drains away. The wind on his face is nothing, like a breeze over stone. He shuts it all down. After, he's no stranger to the void now. Lief focuses on that bright mote and imagines it not ahead of him, but below, and his mind falling into...

Take a look at Trophy Dark.

Lief sits cross-legged on the massive oak door, rocked by choppy waters, trying to calm himself. The air is getting colder. The living lake is propelling him closer to the Dawnforge mountains. Toward his fate. Or something like it. "You're a good man, Starn," he had said back on the lake's...

Starscape looks great, and has had a ton of playtesting. I also think Cold City/Hot War and FiveEvil, both from Handiworks, deserve some love.

I mostly can't relate to the folks with tons of KS horror stories, but the only project I've backed where the creator completely ghosted, with no updates in over a year, is Horizon Rising, by L.F. OSR. Was a huge surprise, since L.F. OSR continues to do work in the industry, and their shop is...

LIEF hurtles down the crumbling stairs, absently touching the sun-shaped scar on his forehead. Pelor's symbol isn't raw or painful—it's smooth and old, like his skin was embossed with the mark of the lord of sun, summer, and harvest years ago. Maybe it was? Lief doesn't remember. Time isn't what...

I nominated one game so far. For my second, how about the ultraviolent sad-vampire game Paint the Town Red from SoulMuppet Publishing.

It's a little complicated, but -UVG 2e stripped out the rules that were in UVG 1e. -The Our Golden Age campaign on Backerkit includes this, which is new: The Vastlands Guidebook — the rule book, A4 hardcover, 144 page version laid out by Guilherme Gontijo. Free digital A5 version also...

FiveEvil from Handiwork Games Criminally underfunded game that reframes 5e mechanics for horror roleplaying. Really innovative stuff!

@Morrus I forget—does it count if an RPG had been available to purchase as a PDF, and is now getting a print version in 2025?

Picking Cohors Cthulhu would continue the rich tradition of having to nominate one of the previous year's most anticipated games again.

This is a great pick, though if I were a betting man I'd be nervous about pegging it to 2025. Each update makes me think it's somehow further from finished. Real Zeno's paradox situation!

Easy as it is to write this sort of thread off with the usual, tired observations about "the internet, amirite?" or even that we're all somehow falling for Elon's devious schemes (the guy is a world-class moron—he's not 4D-chessing anything or benefiting from exposure in an RPG forum), I think...

It's really not that long of a list. As of this point in this thread, you've now learned nearly all of them.

Welp, I take it back. I thought it was just a couple people stamping their feet, demanding ever more proof of sexism (while also saying you can never really know what's in someone's heart, or that even if someone says they're sexist that doesn't mean they are, and so on, forever and ever, until...