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So far this is not something that has come up in any people discussing the game nor in any Actual Plays. Nor was it an issue in the beta. That doesn't mean it won't emerge in the next few weeks, but it's looking pretty good so far on that front. I do get the worry though. Also re: "super...

Yeah that's the one thing we were delusional about when we were in our late 20s - we were like "Well, when we're in our mid 40s and later we'll have tons of time for gaming!", but it turns out people have a lot of stuff that gets in the way still at this age! It was actually easier to genuinely...

There's no hard contradiction between those two genres in terms of mechanics that support them. That's just tone. You can run grimdark 5E no problems despite 5E being clearly a heroic fantasy game. It's about what happens plot/character-wise not how it happens so much. It's bizarre and kind of...

That's the best use case for DM fiat/milestone levelling though, isn't it? That's one of the reasons we adopted it in 4E. That's also one of the major reasons it's become so popular. Likewise with the intentional vagueness re: how often they should level - by making it DM fiat/milestone, you...

I haven't backed anywhere near as many, but also had two that never delivered and I kind of just forgot ever existed. I will say with both though, I don't think it's just people "losing their minds", I think that sometimes the messages about not delivering can really, really make things worse...

We did have a weirdly good time with the bizarre Pokemon rip-off survival-crafter Palworld, I think in part because you can automate a lot of the production by leaving it to the Pals (sadly Nintendo is intent on trying to sue the game into destruction in a very petulant way), equip food to...

All that we're looking at here are setting-specific rules. I don't know how I can make that any clearer. That's what campaign frames are. They're a well-executed way of presenting setting specific rules and guidelines. The guidelines ("principles" particularly) are mostly about how to make...

Yeah if it's basically Heroic Fantasy, 5E is probably going to align pretty well. In fact, the biggest bar with 5E will always be the bizarre pure sacred cow insistence on starting incredibly weak - but it's pretty easy to work around that by starting at level 3.

Valheim was a game I bought day 1 because I thought it was definitely checking a lot of these boxes, and it is pretty good, but it's so focused on survival and crafting, and doesn't really have an interesting or cool open world, or nor actual good combat (albeit way above average for the...

Sorry, but this is absolutely false, and it doesn't like you're genuinely "trying to understand", it sounds like cheap whataboutism for the sake of internet point-scoring. I'm sorry if that's not your intention, but that's absolutely how it reads to me. First off, there aren't games that are...

The game I'd most like to see is something that's totally technically possible, which is a game that combines: First or third person perspective (if it can only be one, third) A proper seamless open world (I'm willing to accept loading screens for dungeons, but not every bloody house) Strong...

Yeah this is an interesting one, I don't think I've ever even heard "arrived to" outside the context of an event rather than just a place. Like arrived to the party, arrived to the concert, arrived to the car show, i.e. something that was ongoing - even then it's extremely rare, but that's not...

Personally? I'd say they probably still need to be around, because plenty of RPGs from the 1980s are! But being generous I'd say sometime north of 2008-2010 they needed to still be legit publishing stuff (not just low-page-count adventures). M&M easily makes that bar, no worries. But most of...

Oh my god. Really? Come on. Even you don't believe this is a legit response to the mass failure of d20 products and the huge damage it did to the RPG industry. Also, sorry, no re: Android vs iPhone. The entire reason iPhone got such a massive install base and customer loyalty was that for a...

Yeah I get that but in English English, the valence is that knave and varlet are ridiculous frilly things that comedy fops call peasants and each other, whereas Blackguard can at least be mispronounced "Black-guard" which sounds kind of sweet, and even Bla'gard is at least associated with angry...

If you can't see that those two things are interconnect, the failing is on you, and the idea that this is "moving goalposts" rather than legitimate discussion is special pleading of the very worst kind. None of these survived long except PF1, which wasn't a d20 game and didn't use the d20STL...

The proof is in the pudding. If the system genuinely is adaptable enough, then the games would have survived. And they didn't. Why so unserious? I mean honestly, you're crying "moving goalposts" because people are connecting, correctly and rationally, the quality of games and their long-term...

I gotta be real, I don't think institutional knowledge at WotC is remotely what you're cracking it up to be. I don't think it's remotely reasonable to believe you need to have been at WotC for 20+ years to make a good Dark Sun setting. I think what's reasonable is that you have to understand...

Specific examples? Because I'm sorry but this really seems like so much hot air when generalized in this vague way.

I mean, we can all be disingenuous about things by writing them down in a way that makes them look different to what they, and simplifying them in a way that is basically misleading. This is a skill the people of the internet have been shown to possess! It's not really helpful though, is it...