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Well this edition has been out for almost 10 years now? It deserves a retrospective at this point.

" worked on in conjunction with the boardgame company Glass Cannon Unplugged and Genuine Entertainment," sounds more like a partnership and less than a licensing deal, but I could be wrong. Until then we can agree to disagree.

So I this is the third KS that I am aware of that has pulled off the boardgame/ttrpg combo so as to share assets between the two games. I think the other two are Batman: Gotham City Chronicles and Hellboy. Hellboy is out and uses 5e, but I don't think there is a review here on ENWorld for it...

Honestly, I'm hoping the cooking show is something I and the Mrs. can watch together.

Vaesen is a great game and good tips on how to make a certain type of investigative adventure.

There's always that one dude at a convention who does a weird thing because, "it's funnier that way."

This has been a D&D issue going back to the TSR days. What you see in a rpg manual or read in media-tie fiction leans to getting people hyped, not accurately represents what can be done RAW.

To clarify, when I was talking about larger companies, I was talking about Free League, Green Ronin, Kobold Press, Chaosium, etc., which are, yes, smaller than WotC and Paizo, but are also (in my opinion) not small indies either. I swear, this is like that whole Boomers vs Millennials but...

It's actually Haslabs that is their version of crowdfunding. Pulse is their exclusive club for collectors for super niche products and behind the scenes content. In some corners, KP has a reputation of making their monsters overpowered for their CR rating.

See this is where the waters get even murkier. What does one consider "indie?" Is everything NOT WotC indie? Are publishers like Free League, Green Ronin, or Kobold Press indies? Because they have resources not available to ... Even smaller publishers like Gallant Knight Games, are they indie...

True. Battletech itself could be a whole white paper on the ways an IP can be Cuisinart-ed to the point that getting all the different rights back under one roof is impossible. And that includes a discussion of different levels of compensation, to include granting a job. (When Wiseman sold the...

As I've watched a couple of 20-year old gaming IPs get relaunches, it's very much a thing for fuzzy nostalgia to make gamers insist the old starter box has X number of things in it. Then they take original boxed set out of the storage shed to learn those old sets were not as stuffed as they...

The X-factor for this project is that the company now has a new partner who seems much more savvy in project management and deliverables. It seems the kickstarters under his watch have gone much better.

And don't forget the backstory you had to invent to claim all your front loaded stuff as a mutant animal who traveled to Atlantis to make deal with a devil so the dragon would give you ... something? And on, and on, and on.

True story. I used the Marvel SAGA RPG as a generic system to play RIFTS. You remember TSR's SAGA system, it was the one with the card deck resolution system and leaned heavy into narrative play? They rewrote Dragon Lance just to make the setting jive with rules. Anyway, we made PCs in five...

I do have to give props Palladium always has imagination and was still producing new spins on their game system in $25 softbound when everyone else went to $40 hard bounds. Remember Systems Failure? The Y2K bug turned out to be Y2K bugs that were invading Earth, fed off energy and turn humans...

TMNT was like my third RPG after Gamma World? Great memories. Afterwards, my fellow high school gamers insisted every RPG have a Parry roll. I guess it's no surprise my RIFTS PC was a dog boy and my while my GURPS game had no mutant hybrids, such a PC would have fit right into my game. I was...

The bestiary is great with the random encounters and adventure seeds make it immediately useful.

I'd say it is more of a feature, not an issue, in this game. This is a game where the only extra HP you get is from an Heroic Ability gives you ... 2 HP. That's it. A goblin with a lucky rolls will always be able to hit and harm even a veteran hero. There's less need for a wide result of numbers...

There is a great third party PDF that puts out alternate attacks for the monsters in the core book. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/450382/Alternate-Monster-Attacks-A-Supplement-for-Dragonbane There is a chart of NPC attacks in the solo rules, which has been great, that and the new Kin...