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I do agree that if you're just playing a "fill in" support character, so long as they have a personality which means they're a follower not a leader, and they don't have a paternalistic or patron-like relationship with the group, and generally aren't making stuff "about them", then that's not...

I think you're confusing a failure of storytelling with where it was aimed. I don't they intentionally failed to explain the Jedi religion properly, but I think the fragmented way they told the story (which was intentional as a stylistic element) meant that you didn't get what was going on...

Whilst I would say Acolyte was aimed more at 18-30 year-olds than "kids", I'd agree this is a major issue, perhaps the major issue, with all SW criticism/discussion. It's particularly bad if a show isn't popular with the Gen X audience, because a small-but-incredibly-loud subsection of that...

I would note that Kingmaker is probably their weakest game by some margin, so if you liked that, you'll probably like their other stuff more. Wrath of the Righteous is just much better-written and generally smarter and more complex than Kingmaker, and Rogue Trader is incredible in a lot of ways...

The Expanse isn't generic, I totally agree, but what makes it distinctive isn't stuff like how individual combat works in that setting (unlike, say, Dune with its shields and so on), which is fairly generic assault rifles and squad combat stuff, or how big the interiors of ships/space stations...

I don't think it's "winnable", but I think things like calling an RPG a "shooter" and suggesting it's going to lose money by using The Expanse IP are points of fact (or least reasoned speculation) rather than opinion. Hence I focused on them. Opinion is "I don't like the look of it". That fine...

Christ Microsoft must have given them a lot of money - very AAA production values and huge difference to what they were showing a . I'll be very interested to see how the time-travel elements actually work out. I noticed they stuck to a pretty small cast of NPCs in the trailer - that could be...

I think one major thing here that pushes RPG campaigns structurally towards being like Buffy/Merlin is that in general, all the PCs are on the same side and in the same place, and aren't backstabbing each other. This is very different to most TV shows and movies (not all, c.f. GotG etc.). Like...

I'm not arguing, right, but what differences would you point to as having like, balance/functionality implications? I'm struggling to think of any but it doesn't mean they don't exist! The main difference I can see is that a solo which just like, has like 18 HP (instead of 6), say, would...

I think it's obvious they will do if they have Relentless (X) - or similar - because of the action economy in DH and realizing that CC in DH is pretty weak. Like, think about it - if you have a group of monsters, if a PC fails a roll or rolls with Fear, you get to spotlight one. Then you have...

If it's D&D 5E it's probably because it was tactically impossible - D&D makes retreats after engagement astonishingly ineffective unless you have powerful magic or the other side wants to let you go.

Then don't buy from them? Do they lie about it or do they admit it? You can't buy from suppliers who aren't upfront - that's true in any business. Suppliers who lie or mislead or won't provide details on their product or its provenance are an absolute menace. You don't buy meat from the guy who...

Yeah which is why "benevolent" is not a good term. It causes confusion with an existing approach, it doesn't diminish it. GMPCs are generally not favoured by DMs who like their players and their PCs and want them to succeed. GMPCs are generally favoured by DMs who want to make themselves...

Yup. It's very easy to prove that both: A) Products with crude/amateurish art. and B) Products heavily using PD art or similar. Sell extremely well. So the idea that a product is rendered not "saleable" by not being stuffed full of full-colour AI art is pretty laughable. If anything it's a...

ROFL what are you talking about? No, the "chances are" not that at all. Artists have galleries. Artists have histories. Artists can send the layered files that show how the art was constructed. Hell, just look at the Kickstarter we're discussing, they SHOW THIS, because they're proud not to use...

I get that this is your opinion, but it's in hard conflict with how an awful lot of oWoD games were actually played. Not as D&D, but certainly as having fairly regular and significant combat. As for "combat was a frequent complaint" - I don't think that's true, actually, or rather no more than...

I feel like you're nitpicking here because you're not thinking about this as an RPG but as a piece of fiction in the Expanse setting. "combat/exploration area is larger than is entirely plausible" and "PCs are fighting more enemies than is strictly realistic" are two of the most basic and common...

For sure, and I suspect if the artist was given more time on it, it'd look a lot more professional. Also I do agree with "dubious art is infinitely better than AI art".

I mean, maybe "Masked Benevolent DM stance"? It's certainly one of the most common DM stances if we consider them to exist.

Time for another update, there are now two Mass Effect-style games in production, with the latest being The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Crew/ship entirely unrelated to the Rocinante and crew, Mass Effect-style over-the-shoulder shoot-y/talk-y RPG.