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Sure, but nothing they've shown so far suggests "revisiting" DW is at all the goal. As @zakael19 says, that's not what it replicated. You're conflating the framing with the actual design and mechanics. Without changing much else, you could change the framing, art, etc. and suddenly the game...

This is exactly the issue, and it's true of an awful lot of PtbA games, there's an obsession with using the same mechanisms (or close variants thereof) as Apocalypse World, even though that doesn't really make sense. Countless design choices in PtbA games and hacks have been attributed to this...

Christ lol you prankster. The failure to just completely rework Stealth/Hidden into a more naturalistic and frankly at least minimally sane system, when they changed a bunch of other systems, with 2024, remains wild to me. I dunno if they made it worse but I don't think it's actually better!

I think a lot of this comes down to the relationship between the abilities and the setting. Like, in D&D, a lot of settings seem to have been designed as if magic didn't exist, and then magic does exist, and causes weird issues and trivializes stuff and so on. Whereas in Exalted, the entire...

This may be technically true, but there tend to be mitigating factors in games designed this way - like, first off you probably have several descriptors like this, so even if you can't work Expert Archer into this situation, you likely can work something else in. Second off, there are a lot of...

I feel like I usually want one of two different things out of an RPG system. Either: A) What @Bae'zel said in this post. I.e. a straightforward and reliable system for adjudicating stuff in an pretty intuitive way. BRP for example. Or: B) A custom-designed (though fine if it's variant of...

Man that was such a cool game, and kind of before its time rules-wise (very 1990s subject matter of course).

Looking into it, I don't think it's accurate to say "about as much". Definitely Odd-likes exist and are cool and there are a number of them (Electric Bastionland, Cairn and Mausritter probably being the "big names"), but the total numbers appear to be pretty small next to PtbA or FitD, even if...

It's without discussion because I don't think there's any question that it's right for it to be there. It was huge and extremely influential and reshaped the entire hobby. Personally I think if WoD hadn't happened I might have drifted away from RPGs in the early-mid-1990s, because before them a...

I've mostly been playing Diablo 4. Not because it's amazing - I think both the Path of Exile games and Last Epoch are basically better ARPGs, but there's something compellingly brain-off arcade-game-like about D4. It's interesting that it started out very much consciously aiming to hearken back...

Yes and don't forget the visual design! L&F isn't just words on a single page, it's also carefully visually styled in an appealing and somewhat unusual way, right down to the landscape layout and cute spaceship picture. And it says right on it that you should make and share or sell your own L&F...

Ok, thank you, feeling more sane! I was beginning to wonder if I'd profoundly missed something! Re: Quake 2 oh yeah I remember something like that - I think I had a cracked version before release, but I did make myself buy the actual release version when it came out. I remember being very...

Yeah, I think the SRD and d20 licencing scheme have been pretty influential and important, and I think 3E itself was pretty influential in that there were countless d20 licence games which were basically 3E-based, and like, maybe that's not very interesting, but I do think it was pretty...

Nowadays? The second one. Back in the day, the first one or even "you find three gems" (before having someone work to identify them). Pretty much never the rest. I think saying what they are and how much they're worth strikes a balance between excessive time-wasting over people having to...

Into the Odd seems cool, but what would you say it's influenced specifically? To me superficially it seems more representative of trends that started before it than influential, but that might just be me. Not Snarf but I would strongly back L&F as well, because we're talking not "who did it...

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Yeah to me it seem very, very unlikely that more people played Goldeneye. I mean, compare: Goldeneye Only on N64 62% of N64s sold in the US, and another 19% in Japan meaning most of the world saw very few. This is a very, very different pattern to the same-era PS1. Full-price physical game...

My personal feeling is without DotV, the entire indie RPG scene is both significantly smaller than it is now, and looks very different, and probably PtbA/Apocalypse World doesn't exist, because they're both by Vincent Baker, and without both the success of and his dissatisfaction with DotV, he...

Looking through the thread I'm actually surprised how little of that there is. I think the original list and @Snarf Zagyg's one are pretty good. I'd personally add: Dogs In The Vineyard - Obviously hugely influential, surprised it's not on either big list and fits your "under the radar"...

I have a face for radio imho and am too old so I think YouTube is out lol. What's your basis for this very extreme claim? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game) "up to 20 million people are estimated to have played it within two years of launch." That's just up to 1995, and I...