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Hmm. Some of this looks interesting, but I’m pretty disappointed to see that 18 of those 27 cards are duplicates from the Essentials Kit (the nine Condition cards and the nine Initiative cards, which are literally just cards labeled with the numbers 1 through 9).

I really don’t think she’s saying that the bad new-user experience was a reason for her to quit. She’s saying it was one of the things she was hoping to have an impact on while working there. Maybe you could read between the lines and conclude that the fact she wasn’t permitted to improve that...

It’s in Tajo’s presentation, starting around 5:40 time stamp.

That’s a great way of putting it. And I think you’re right that Ulisses has their work cut out for them making this game succeed. I get the impression they realize they’ll never achieve Pathfinder levels of success, but I do suspect the game needs to find a somewhat larger player base in...

Sounds like you can actually play him as a PC—but the usual make-your-own character is the default mode. “Although you can play as Legendary Agents like Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz, etc. in the role-playing game, the most fun will come from creating your own totally new B.P.R.D. rookie”

The books really are high quality productions that stand out from the crowd, from the spot UV printing on the covers to the really excellent art. It’s a more consistent art style than say D&D 5e, and very evocative of the setting.

I just discovered that Mantic has been posting further details to their blog over the past several days since the game was announced. Highlights: —My guess was right, you can play either as an original character or as Hellboy, Liz, etc. —Players have pools of “ingenuity” points, and the GMs...

To be fair, they aren't all small things. But the big things are infrequent, and often they're slowly built up over the course of many years. There's a current metaplot thing affecting the deific pantheon, called the Starfall (which I think is what vendolis meant by "a lot of changes are...

Yeah. I think many of us here at this site and others like it can easily fool ourselves into thinking that most 5e players are just one great evangelical moment away from trying a non-5e system. Whereas I suspect that actually the vast majority of new 5e players (and there are millions of them)...

I can’t speak for vendolis, but for me the metaplot doesn’t affect the games that much. But it’s still a plus for me, because I like following that as a separate thing from play sessions. I guess it’s a little like Dragonlance—a setting I can tell you have fondness for—in that there are big...

TDE’s appeal (for me) also rests on: —its a crunchier system than D&D but mechanically more interesting than Pathfinder —fighting monsters isn’t 2/3 of the game like it is (at least mechanically, and usually in practice in my experience) in D&D. It’s just as well supported to run a...

I mean, it's possible my estimate is wrong. I figured at least one in forty accounts would be active in a quarter. Maybe that's too high. But it seems like a reasonable estimate to me.

I'm not a statistician. So maybe I do misunderstand how statistics work. If so, I'm happy to learn. There are a lot of people playing on Roll20. The site has more than four million users. So one tenth of one percent of them is not a tiny number. Even if the vast majority of those four million...

Well, most games have less than a tenth of a percent total. So it makes a big difference for those games.

I know what you mean, ibenny. Even though I like D&D 5e a lot and play it the most of any RPG, I also wish it wasn't so extremely dominant over other options. I'd be happier if D&D were just the most popular of many popular games rather than actually being more popular than all other RPGs put...

That's true, of course. As I also observed earlier on in this thread, most such games don't include options for playing the canonical main characters, unless perhaps as a variant option. (I mentioned Prince Valiant and the currently active Conan RPG.) Nonetheless, I'd be pretty surprised if...

I think 5e can work very well for this. It will require some clever design choices to be made regarding classes, alterations to the way magic works, etc. But an original system might be an even dicier proposition from a design success POV, and using an existing non-5e system is definitely a much...

Those two issues are all we're going to get. The rest of the series has been canceled due to Mignola severing ties with longtime Hellboy editor, and writer on that Frankenstein series, Scott Allie, following revelations of Allie's persistent sexual misconduct. (Apparently his having lied about...

Baltimore and Joe Golem are part of a different, much smaller shared universe called "The Outerverse." It's not the same world as Hellboy's (and the BPRD's, and Frankenstein's, and Witchfinder's, and . . .). I'm sure the Hellboy RPG won't include them (and the rights to those series would...

My first thought was "But who gets to play Hellboy? And won't they be having, you know, a lot more fun than the other players?" Most games of this nature, based on source material with very prominent main characters, take the approach where no player gets to play the "star of the story" because...