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Pretty much, yeah. They aren't secret, or magic. There's plenty of documentation on how they work. Heck, I did research, and took some courses, on them (potentially using them to configure software and detectors for particle accelerators) in grad school, back before anyone coined the term...

In a couple of years, nobody playing the game at that time will care much. But who is playing (and how many are playing) in two years may be rather strongly dependent on who continues playing through this transition period.

If you focus on making comparative critiques of new games, you don't really want to talk about the new games.

Note: The individual awards for the games are not particularly potent, for the most part. There's a big question as to whether using resources to cheat on the games is really a win for the PCs. Also note: the carnival is mood-dependent, and some of the shenanigans near the end of the chapter...

And chase scenes, which is a clever mechanic.

Technically, this is a Hulu offering, which may be important to those who don't subscribe to Disney+ This is a Peacock offering, not Amazon.

Yeah, but I think at this point invoking Edwards is kind of like invoking Gygax on D&D design. Yes, he was influential in the past, but his view is now out of date. We've learned a great deal since his time. I understand the conflation, because there was a time when a lot of disassociated...

Yeah. PEG does scifi cards, fantasy cards, and so on, but they don't have a set that fits the specific western/scifi/horror mix that is Lost Colony.

Insofar as I expect more people did/will buy, engage with, and play the backwards-compatible rules than with rules that tossed that goal out the window, yes, the goal has value.

Why? The SWADE rulebook gives seven uses for bennies, only one of which exerts direct narrative influence, and that's one you could houserule away and have players not blink an eye. The other six are (in terms for folks who don't know the system): Reroll a attempt to perform a task Shed...

There's two separate questions: 1) How much are each of our parts growing? 2) How much of our growth is due to each of our parts? That you want (1), does not mean they should not create an answer for (2).

Nah, it is just a deconstructed stacked bar graph Total sales were up by 46% Tabletop was responsible for 37% Digital licensing was responsible for 8%. It is not, "Tabletop sales were 37% higher than Tabletop sales were last year". It is that "overall sales were up 46%, with 37% of it from...

I'm currently using a Bicycle 1800 series, which is a little less distressed, but same basic idea, as is the Bicycle 1900 series. Edit to add: My Upcoming game is a little weird, in that it is Deadlands: The Lost Colony. So, it is Deadlands, but it is also set in 2097 in another solar system...

Serialized, like Les Miserables, and they got paid by the word?

Starting up a new campaign, running Savage Worlds, which uses a deck of playing cards as mechanical support in a few places. While I have playing cards around the house, this struck me as an opportunity. Folks get special dice and dice storage, GM screens, tneire gamign tables. But how about...

I think this makes me want to differentiate between "rules light" and "mechanics light". Because those healing rules have few mechanics, but are some 750 words to tell you how people get better.

Only Murders in the Building does good season-long mysteries. Poker Face does a nice twist on the standard mystery procedurals.

Mod note: Political commentary and insult in the same package? Out of the thread you go!

Unless your game has explicit trope-based mechanics, then you are more playing games with language. And that is fine if you do that with yourself. But pretending that someone else's words mean something else because you are playing word games is not appropriate.

Mod note: Folks, Making this about each other is a good way for the discussion to go ugly quickly. So please back off that rhetorical tactic, please.