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The most concise, insightful, and balanced analysis of this game I've seen yet. Either you offend by appropriating existing names or by replacing them with fake ones. Can't win.

Not surprising. This however was. Not sure I'd take that bet. However the Plot Die can be effortlessly ported to any d20 style system out there. Also #DC20. Because they didn't need to until now.

Oh the irony, but this is what you get when you market an RPG on the merits of its 'minority' representation. Because no matter what you do it can never be enough.

Couldn't have gone to a worse company or been implemented in a less appropriate system. It's frustratingly heartbreaking.

Cards actually make far more sense than dice for this game, so I'm slightly disappointed they've decided to go with the latter. Not that that matters as the ideological bent of both companies involved are doing a damn fine job of alienating me as a customer.

I find the current edition to be poorly laid out and simultaneously too simple (when it comes to combat) and too complicated (when it comes to panic). So unlike most I think a new edition is more than warranted. My concern is changes won't be made where they're needed. Despite ostensibly having...

I agree. However I suspect there's far more overlap between the two spheres here. Oh ye of little faith. Well we're about to find out. As was foretold!

Same thing happens in software dev, and the answer is simple: It's often easier to implement your own solution than search for and integrate an existing one. And to be fair many 'frameworks' are bloated and overdesigned.

So I let my sub to #Rascal go for a month longer than intended, but that only further confirmed what I already suspected: That they’re far more concerned about ideology and activism. They have a subscription level called ‘party member’, lack consistency in their stance on cultural appropriation...

Funny how gendered assumptions lead to more gendered assumptions. Turns out lack of agency is worse than bigotry. Which is why I consider establishing stakes before taking action to be mandatory. Only #RedFlag I'd need. And if this had been drawn by a woman signifigantly younger than myself I...

So where do I get my TTRPG news? Mostly forums, #YouTube, and #Reddit. After which I usually need to engage in my own journalism to verify the sources and claims anyway, which the modern internet renders more difficult by the day. But let's be honest: The majority of such news is either drama...

So Orcs in D&D are now presented as friendly Mexicans. Before this they were presented as pig nosed and without meaningful culture. Orkworld presented them as ignorant but noble savages. Burning Wheel presented them as a culture driven by instinctual hate. Lord of the Rings presented them as...

Fair question, as objective numbers are hard to come by, but yes. Sales are in decline, margins are shrinking, and games like #DC20 are specifically designed to appeal to those dissatisfied with D&D. #WotC has no clue why D&D is successful, which is why they keep repeating the same mistakes...

Turn based RPGs. I guess that's one way of describing them. Anyway, Pro Life Tip: If a company makes a promise they will break it. If it's not in a contract they will break it. And even if it's in a contract they will break it if they feel they'll profit more in the long run. The entire...

On the one hand leveling up is quite compelling. It gives a sense of growth and progression. It remains a fundamental feature of #FantasyHeartbreakers, and most remain about collecting stuff which can be used to collect even more stuff. On the other hand leveling up adds complexity and slows...

Meanwhile #OneMoreMultiverse had to shut down despite having over 17 million in funding. These consolidations are not a sign of a growing industry but one currently in contraction, and I have little faith in #Roll20 being able to integrate both #Demiplane and #DriveThruRPG when they can't even...

It's a perfectly cromulent D&D heartbreaker which applies all the most obvious fixes to the unnecessary cruft that line is known for, yet still holds on to double digit math with the d20, negative numbers for modifiers, and unnecessary additions involving modifiers which are the same for every...

Honestly if an RPG doesn't help enable improv then it doesn't matter how complex the rules are. I've often wondered how far we can actually take this idea. For example, is it possible for one player to play a purely tactical game while another plays a narrative one? Because these agendas come...

Professional game journalism is dead. Nobody wants or needs analysis from paid 'authorities' about the games they play, especially when that involves unnecessary moralizing. Such sources are no less accurate and often more opinionated than those 'unprofessional' influencers they are so eager to...

But why tho?