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I'm definitely being hyperbolic, but not by that much; unless my memory has completely betrayed me, Snyder has expressed some pretty breathtaking levels of cynicism about humanity in interviews (if it has betrayed me, well then I am sorry I maligned Mr. Snyder's character). He's not alone in...

IMHO, you just answered your own question. GRRM doesn't believe in cartoonish paragons. Snyder doesn't believe fundamentally decent people exist. Like, Snyder is one of those types of folks that thinks that Fred Rogers must have secretly been a serial killer or something.

One of the fundamental problems with Snyder is that his personal worldview is so bleak and cynical that he finds paragons and other straightforwardly heroic and likeable people to be cartoonishly unrealistic. That makes a story with a hero a lot of people really like and want to cheer for hard...

Having watched Rebel Moon, I have my doubts that the game would have been very popular. Kind of a weird situation all around. Reading between the lines a bit, sounds like Evil Genius has maybe cannibalized the design work they did for that "new sci-fi project" and just stripped off the IP.

Yeah, that's an excellent point. I've gotten to play the Avatar RPG, Impulse Drive, Monster of the Week, and Wanderhome in the last year or so (it was a good year for PbtA stuff, clearly!), and I still have a hefty wish list of systems I want to try.

Perhaps "not having the system they want to use ready yet" is the thing stopping them?

I'm sure it's not hurting them, but I think D&D could vanish tomorrow and their audience would not. It will be interesting to see what transitioning to a different system or systems do for them.

sigh "It was regrettably cancelled again."

I will also say that I think breaking D&D's stranglehold on the industry is an unalloyed good, even if it comes with some pain. Pre-Hasbro WotC was a pretty decent actor a lot of the time. Hasbro is awful.

Are their things with other systems big, lengthy campaigns with lots of chapters you can get invested in like a TV show and talk about at the water cooler? I suspect that if not, that campaign structure may be the missing bit. It'll be interesting to see what happens when they switch to...

I'm coming in late, but "the brand recognition that drove people to Critical Role is gone" almost made me laugh aloud. Critical Role trades on the fact that its cast is a bunch of attractive and incredibly charismatic voice actors. And I say this as someone who has bounced off of Critical Role...

I was one of the backers on the crowdfunding campaign for this, and I cannot recommend it or the volume before it, Into the Wyrd & Wild, enough. Absolutely fantastic books, both.

The penultimate Thematic Toolkit release, Burning Gloom is available! This one covers the adept, elementalist, and rogue classes. Adepts can become Darkstrikers, masters of darkness and shadow who can see normally in the total absence of light, lower the light around them, and eventually...

I'd also like to throw in that there is an enormous amount of reasonably-priced commercial stock art out there that you can use for your RPG projects (indeed, there are dozens of artists making such art for exactly that purpose). In the entire history of Purple Martin Games, I have commissioned...

I don't know KotG, but druids are pretty good healers and between their spell list and wildshape are almost never bad in anything, ever.

The new version is so much prettier anyway. You did a fantastic job of finding good artists.

Do not sleep on this. Clarke really did something cool here.

I support A5E, not O5E (though I might eventually support Tales of the Valiant). And this is a sideline/monetized hobby, not my living, so I can afford to draw that particular line in the sand. (Also, this isn't a "woe is me" thing; I have more than enough ideas for three lifetimes. I'll work on...

I'll probably have some more Narrator-facing content at some future point. I'd like to do a monster book, but I just don't have the art budget, and based on my sales for my player-facing stuff, I don't think there's a large enough third party-buying A5E consumer base to fund one, even using...