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I think the mention of superheroes/use of them as an example is what's upsetting people. Fundamentally the underlying concept that psions should have an array of thematically-connected powers is pretty sound and I don't think it's terribly far from how psions were implemented in earlier...

No. The licencing and logo is. The specific d20 system licencing (which IIRC, requires you to use the OGL and so on) and d20 system logo. Otherwise every single game that used a d20 in resolution, long before and long after the d20 licence would be a "d20 system game". Even current M&M no...

I will say there's something incredibly perverse and totally unnecessary about limiting the Wild Talent Feats to Sage and Noble backgrounds, the very two backgrounds who, in fantasy fiction, are probably least likely to have them, but I guess who are what, "brain-themed"?! This is absolutely...

One other thing I liked with his work that I have is that he does recognise that sometimes you need different rules to change the genre and tone, and he tends to offer them as optional rules - you can really significantly nuance the deadliness, power level and heroism up and down in Worlds...

Realistically, it's pretty rare that you can't rapidly tell that people you're working with are idiots. Even assuming no interviews and just hiring people who turn up, just hanging around with them tends very rapidly show you who is a moron and who is lazy and who cannot possibly be trusted and...

What are you talking about? I ask because it's completely and entirely unclear what the subject of your concern is here. I can't even tell if you're here to praise Caesar or bury him!

Agree with everything you're doing here but I'm sorry, Knave? We've gone out of the frying pan and directly into the fire! You've gone from: "Dumb name, looks ugly, doesn't mean anything, kind of hard to say" To "Ridiculous name which makes you sound like a prankster or jester, and...

Quite - the only other good d20-era material, and stuff that kept selling even a little past the initial boom was Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Diamond Throne, which was also basically variant D&D. Mutants and Masterminds also survived a bit longer but is the poster-child for "ripping out...

I'm sorry but that's just not the evidence you think it is. What that's evidence of is that people will absolutely spam out stuff to try and cash in on a craze and make a quick buck, especially in an industry where it's tricky to make money. As @AbdulAlhazred correctly points out, it's very...

I feel like the issue here is that you appear to be comparing adapting a heroic fantasy game to do heroic fantasy to adapting GURPS 4E, a generic game primarily focused on supporting SF and historical/faux-historical settings to heroic fantasy. I mean, I definitely agree GURPS 4E is both...

Probably! And certainly I agree with the sentiment. For an easy recent example Outgunned and its relatives are absolutely both gamist and narrativist (as well as genre-simulating).

Dark Sun has literally never been more relevant, and it seems to get more relevant literally every single day! Doesn't seem like that's going to stop any time soon, either! And yes I say this in every thread Dark Sun gets mentioned it, but it keeps getting more true! Ironically I suspect this...

YES!!!!

Yeah narrativist stuff is very good at calling out that the DM should explain the risks/rewards, which I've always found a little odd, not because it shouldn't be being done or anything, but simply because I'm not sure there's anything that links that concept more to narrativism than there is to...

I'd suggest the contrary would be even easier to implement these days. Wizards in 5E are basically just a special case of Sorcerer when their "deal" is that they have access to a broader variety of spells due to this distinctive "spellbook" that they carry around with them. So they could be a...

That's a pretty excellent point. 2E, 3E, and 5E have all featured a lot of tracking of resources that aren't actually going to run out or even have to be rationed on a given day. It's usually only your top three levels of spells that really are likely to be depleted, and even then, in so many...

Sure, but it's a choice, and he's not struggling - he's making hundreds of thousands every time. He managed to afford real art on his much less successful KSes too, I note. I will say I notice he made a lot less on the openly AI-art-using Ashes Without Number than Cities Without Number, where...

If he was like, really struggling, and his books desperately needed art, I'd disagree with it but could forgive it. But frankly his Kickstarters do extremely well, as do his aftersales on Drivethru (rarely does he not have multiple books in the top 100, often in the top 20), and actual art is...

Guess who doesn't work at WotC anymore? Any of the people who said stuff like that! Kyle Brink, who is the individual who called Dark Sun "problematic" (correctly, it is, but it doesn't have to be) left pretty soon after we even found he existed! Crawford and Perkins didn't call it...

That's an awful lot of words to fundamentally not disagree with what I'm saying. I guess you did say you were nuancing it, so I can't complain! But as I've repeatedly pointed out, it is 5E specifically that always gets suggested. It's literally never the editions you're discussing. No-one comes...