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I mean, I dunno dude, it kind of sounds like the problem wasn't at all the rules there. It kind of sounds, from what you're describing, that you had an attitude where you couldn't stand things to get even slightly easier for the players, to even slightly deviate from your prepared scenario and...

In general this game seems to handle disability stuff better than most - in fact most "social justice" issues are handled with what I'd describe as considerably more confidence than other games, which also means they don't have to be as coy or kid-gloves as some representation has been. A lot of...

It's mostly the coming online scene, it felt a bit out of place, too exposition-y, and like something you might see in The Mandalorian (derogatory).

Yeah given they got like $4.5m from the KS, I would expect so. I do expect it to be a more divisive in certain ways. Yeah the general quality and intentionality of game design, and levels of playtesting that games receive now is just insanely higher than it used to be. So we rarely see the...

Yeah I don't think it has much to do with the inherent characteristics of D&D, rules-wise, but rather to the overwhelming popularity of D&D as a brand, which is largely down to marketing, cultural factors and the difficulty of getting people to try other RPGs. It is true that getting people to...

Well-observed particularly re: watching the reactions of others. Also talking of Luthen and Kleya, I really liked how sparse the storytelling was for the backstory. Gilroy and Bissel actually respected the intelligence of the audience there, allowed us to put the pieces that we saw, and didn't...

I mean, they're British so yeah they'd never hire the Pinkertons, but I'm less certain about the rest of those (they've certainly had some unsavoury characters work for them over the years, and have done "Pray that we do not alter the deal further" stuff a bunch of times), and they've done...

I mean, no more so than literally every PtbA and FitD game, among many others. And they seem to do pretty good there! I dunno if it's in the SRD, but the actual game explicates how the DM needs to realize Fear is a resource, and you can't just blow it constantly and without any forethought. The...

The one thing that slightly confounded me was the Session Zero advice. That advice is perhaps... overcomplicated and over prescriptive (like, timing stuff down to the minute, different break lengths lol, come on who lives like that? This is more like a CPD* course than session zero! Though some...

It's possible that the sheer idiocy and naked greed of Games Workshop is inherently a lot funnier and easier to set up jokes about than WotC/D&D.

Some people don't even just like "shiny new", they like variety and trying different things. Like, we've gone back to older RPGs before, plenty of times, as well as playing newer ones (though with most RPGs we have found the most recent edition is the best - particularly with ones that change...

Yeah this sounds right to me. Re: the arrogance of youth, because of Kleya's kind of timeless look it wasn't until Make It Stop that I realized she wasn't like, 40, but more like mid to late 20s. Not that she looked old, she just has one of those faces that could be absolutely anywhere between...

Ahhh, I didn't know. Because she doesn't fit my profile YouTube won't even show me her stuff unless I go look for it, even though I'm subscribed because I hate Games Workshop (despite/because I play some limited 40K). She's pretty funny most of the time - she was mocking her own style...

For sure. I have severe ADHD which has impacted my life in various ways, and I don't see anything about 5E which would have spoken to me more than other RPGs when I was in school. Indeed, I think it might actually have appealed to me less than a lot of other RPGs around now. It wasn't even that...

That's the one thing I don't love about Daggerheart - the way the book is organised. As you say, it makes sense, and it actually flows kind of naturally, but I found it annoying to reference or locate where stuff was. I know from long, long experience of RPGs that that's a temporary state - if...

Do you mean Discourse Minis? (Dyed dark red/purple-ish hair, shocking pink lipstick, black frame glasses is her trademark look) She's primarily a mini wargame YouTuber (particularly focused on criticising Games Workshop) rather than TTRPG, and she's Northern Irish, not Irish, but her whole...

It does. The main difference with Daggerheart is they have a much more PtbA-like approach to combat in that it's not a separate state of being the way it is in most RPGs (there's no initiative or dividing line between combat and not-combat, this is very much intentional), and is about flow...

I didn't appreciate the playtest material I saw either, it seemed kind of "bleh", but the actual release game is not something I could possibly call underdeveloped. Quite to the contrary, it's very heavily developed and well-considered! I got it due largely to FOMO/hype but I'm surprised at how...

Yeah it seems to be a legal requirement that everything must be made tremendously overcomplicated, with layered mechanics and tons to learn, even Dead Cells went that way, from a promising start. Caves of Qud kind of works decently as a simple true Rogue-like, if you just pick from the pre-made...

The lair bosses particularly are just a horrible mismatch with the rest of the game. The vast bulk of the game is basically a headlong rampage across the land and through dungeons with some tougher enemies now and then, and then suddenly the lair bosses are all fights about carefully dodging...