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Regardless of which side you choose, all rules require interpretation, and you can't have rulings without rules. Good. Someone said it, now we can move o... Well yes but... Is this the start of a bit? Daggers don't get cracked, they either break outright or not, especially slender ones. The...

Rules are only broken insofar as they generated unintended results, and if a game designed to achieve results through tactical play and combining multiple feats and spells yet also allows (or worse requires) a DM to arbitrarily ignore the rules whenever it suits them in order to work then it's...

Unit tests can only test for how we expect things to fail, are often redundant, and in my experience lead to actual problems being missed. Fact is all our current tools are horrifically lacking when it comes to modern software development, mostly because they all fundamentally rely on reducing...

Depends entirely on what the rules are designed to do.

Sadly the market for RPGs is peanuts compared to everything else, and always will be. Players often make major issues out of minor differences. The intersection between fans of a franchise and the RPGs based on them is small. The rules are a barrier. The time investment is considerable. The...

Because "everyone involved in Into the Motherlands has been professionally involved in gaming for quite some time now". So not having a system is unusual at best, and incompetent at worst. Also does anyone have any idea of what system they're using now? Have they provided any previews for it...

"The broadcaster has indicated that this channel is intended for mature audiences." Huh.

Never forget that corporations cannot be trusted, only held accountable. Anyway, while the evasiveness about who actually signed the OGL 1.1 was expected, I was surprised at how concerned #WotC appears to be regarding competitors they're in no position to compete with. Like Meta, whose Reality...

It's also now under CC-BY by virtue of being part of the 5.1 SRD ;) Thing is it's an open game license, not a "5e and stale D&D clone" license, which you should know given the numerous non D20 games which have been mentioned... ...including both BRP and Eclipse Phase. Vampire's success was...

I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but lets be honest, the first to release an RPG based on it will likely have the best selling RPG of all time. What is the airspeed velocity of a letter laden owl? What do you mean, a barn owl or a horned owl? The thing which made Quidditch most bizarre was the...

It isn't. The problem is #Hasbro wants to do nothing but license IP at this point. Their physical products are absolute garbage, they're trying to sell eOne, and #DnDBeyond isn't turning out the way they expected. And because of this it's very likely the 3D VTT they're pursuing will be...

I suspect it has to do with perceived agency, in that explicit rules establish what a character can and cannot do without having to clarify such with the GM or even other players before taking action. And it's a design issue I still think is direly under evaluated. #ToldYouSo

I thought it reverted to the original copyright holder and not another company. Looking it up I see it's run by... Jonathan and Morgan McFarland. So carry on. Not really. I completely forgot about this one. Plenty of shenanigans to be had.

Would ENWorld Publishing be able to step up and help I wonder? More concerningly is they didn't consider it worth doing so despite the opportunities left in the wake of #WotC's mistakes. Yet they're still publishing those. That makes their lack of system and setting even more damning though...

The only way this moves forward is if participants are able to separate results and procedures from values and worth, and everyone stops fighting over who gets to decide definitions. Theory needs to focus on how an end is achieved, not whether it's worth achieving. And definitions change even...

“With the sale of D&D Beyond to Hasbro in the spring, it no longer made sense for us to operate in the TTRPG space since that was the large majority of our business,” Cortex has indefinitely paused development of He-Man RPG Legends of Grayskull after sale to Dire Wolf Digital

The Clive Barker universe. Most if not all his works are connected in some way, and the world they take place in is equal parts sick, sensual, and surreal. Jodorowsky's Metabarons and The Incal. Dune on acid. For a brief period there was a D6 adaptation. The X Files / The Lone Gunmen. Anyone why...

I caught his stream on accident while avoiding ads on another, and I found him oddly evasive. I asked how he intended to prevent his system from being 'misused', which was an issue he brought up, and he answered only insofar as to state he wasn't going to answer. He then went on about not...

So Andrews McMeel decided to breach their contract with a Black writer(s), at the start of Black History Month, while continuing to sell an RPG from a White writer (on their front page no less) called Blackbirds. Seems every time I think things can't get more absurd I end up holding another...

Don't forget how future Cortex licenses were cancelled after the purchase of #DnDBeyond, including Masters of the Universe. He has every right to be bitter, as I know few designers who have as naughty word of luck in this industry. Edit: naughty word? That's adorable.