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Like I said originally, it's not good data science here. I'll also say, I think a break down of games at Gen Con do tend to represent the general market, too. And, yea,'tend' there is carrying a lot of weight.

Gen Con rpg list It's fun to look at lists like this and draw conclusions. Thing is, I'm not sure what conclusions to draw. Gives a list of most popular rpgs? A long list of games you thought were dead but still around? Indie darlings that we think are far more popular than they really are...

I'm super curious if Sanderson's Cosmere rpg will be a mostly unplayed, merch-only purchase. I suspect it will be. But if it gets more people into the hobby, it's a win for all of us.

I agree and I'm not having any delusions here. Probably most people are going to read this game and reject it because it's so narrative forward and beyond the pale for them. To be clear, my pessimism aside, I hope it's a hit, however people want to define that term. But at least... at...

I think, like @Kichwas, for a LOT of people, the advice here in Daggerheart is going to be the first time folks have seen great GM advice codified. For all that apocalypse world and blades in the dark gets talked about on rpg discussion forums, 99% of D&D/casual gamers have never heard of...

This is terrific... thanks so much for sharing. And yea, we're totally going to try this out and I'm going to send feedback. I'm here in Seattle and we miss you, btw...

I can see that point of view. That it might feel more confrontational to have the GM actively using the pool against you. I'll say, though, that growing the Fear pool in front of the players does lend scenes a sense of danger which I really like. And at least it's a measure of how the GM may...

That's great to hear, actually. I'm so glad they didn't pull an Ironsworn - Starforged thing where that game's asset cards (which contain traits and abilities) are NOT in the book which leads to a very weird problem where you can't make characters sitting down with the core book - you have to...

That's a nice idea and Mercer is a big enough fan of the hobby in general that I can see it as a possibility.

I've played Genesys quite a bit across various genres. Mainly urban fantasy but we did cyberpunk and sci-fi and spies, too. You're often forced to deal with positive and negative meta-currency accrual with every roll but with Daggerheart, I really the core mechanic allows the GM to bank Fear and...

She was on Roll for Combat as a guest and I thought she was nice and smart and very, very aware that she's awful and a D&D doom and gloomer in order to get an audience and serve the YT algorithm. I appreciated her take but I can't stand the cynicism. I unsubbed from her a long while back.

Welcome to the RPG community on Reddit. This sentiment dominates the conversation over there and it's so incredibly obnoxious.

45 years gaming has drilled into my skull that folks need to play the game first as written before they start house ruling it because what's on paper so often comes off very different in actual play. Over the decades I've seen people skim rules and instantly think they know better. And maybe...

With the pdf being $30, the standard print edition -- a 366 pg hardcover and 189 cards -- is only twice that? That's actually a really good deal. And the standard has some nice production values... they could have done $75 and I don't think people would have thought twice. I mean, I know they...

People really, really, really, really, really like traditional in their fantasy no matter what they say. It's exhausting how people want to endlessly continue the tropes.

The game is called Dungeon World 2, not Dungeon World second edition, for what's worth. Like... maybe they need to make it more explicit -- 'Dungeon World Revisited' -- but it's meant less of a replacement and more of an evolution of the state of PbtA fantasy gaming. Original DW is from...

Point taken though I don't think I'm hating and I don't think my OP was some kind of hate on the play style. I think you're overreacting.

My first post in this thread and it's "kinda weird"? I mean, I'm expressing an opinion about lethality in the game and it's an open forum. I don't think I'm threadcapping. Is this thread limited to positive only?

Silmarily, I think SD and lethality of OSR make for a terrible introduction to fantasy rpgs. I'm trying to teach my kids the power of imagination and magical empowerment, not dying in a dank dungeon without having done anything of note. Feels like older millennials and Gen X trying to recapture...

I'm so tired of the god-damn chaos that the current administration is bringing to our little corner of the economy.