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Yeah it seems to be a legal requirement that everything must be made tremendously overcomplicated, with layered mechanics and tons to learn, even Dead Cells went that way, from a promising start. Caves of Qud kind of works decently as a simple true Rogue-like, if you just pick from the pre-made...

The lair bosses particularly are just a horrible mismatch with the rest of the game. The vast bulk of the game is basically a headlong rampage across the land and through dungeons with some tougher enemies now and then, and then suddenly the lair bosses are all fights about carefully dodging...

Is he though? I'm not seeing much indication of that in the show, i.e. specifically the "figure out" or "final arbiter" parts - on the contrary it looks like Kleya figures out most of it, and as you say, just reaches the same conclusion as Luthen, who is almost rubber-stamping the decisions at...

Well, I was like part-way into planning an Outgunned Adventures campaign but now I am doing the guy turning his head meme to an Age of Umbra campaign for Daggerheart - it would effectively be a short campaign to test, and if the players liked it, we could continue. I have, in theory, a "captive...

I've never seen any videos like this, and because my YouTube seems to be exceptionally well-tuned at avoiding giving me stuff I'll hate (just don't hate-watch stuff, people, don't do it, don't even thumbs down - click "I didn't like this" or the w/e on the thumbnail), so it seems...

Oh I believe but in that context I know more people IRL/quasi-IRL who swear by 4E D&D than any other edition of D&D, but like, I'm an outlier, I can tell that. I do recall at the time there was a pretty intense hard core of posters who swore 4E SR was the best SR, a natural continuation and so...

Reading through the rules it's definitely got quite a serious mix of influences rather than being a D&D clone in the way it actually plays. Impressed me more than I expected, rules-wise. PtbA but very specifically Dungeon World is clearly a major one, maybe the most major one, to the point...

There's literally no contradiction between those two bolded things. I speak from decades of experience. The contradiction is between actually playing and learning/creating new PCs but the cold, hard reality is that D&D is one of the harder RPGs to learn in the current era, and creates more...

Hmmmm I wonder what other games have done that? Could it be for example AD&D 2nd edition? I don't think it's a major issue worth getting upset over mate.

Nah. I'm assumed you missed the weird haters who were like "They will just put out the Daggerheart corebook and then will never support Daggerheart ever again", which yeah, was patently silly, but there were multiple people doing it, I guess they were mad because Candela Obscura was...

See the trick my brother and I used to futureproof our main group against this was just making them play absolutely every game under the sun from about 1992 through 2004, really switching games every few sessions practically. Did it scar them deeply? Perhaps! But who cares! They're still open to...

Seems like a natural fit! I bought Daggerheart because I'm an idiot, even though I'm not done reading through Outgunned Adventure, and I have to say, it does look very good, just reading the actual core rules, and I'm particularly interested to see any expansions which take it outside of...

For the sake of balance you do need to ensure each PC is only attacked by either the Tank or the Soldiers, never both, each round but yeah that works too. Yeah I'd seek to avoid the first, and I think you could tweak that in various ways, but I think the latter is a low-rank concern for me...

Honestly bring games like that back. Sure, we have Diablo 4, PoE2, etc. etc. but they all require far too much dedication and attention to detail, to the point where they're not even really hack and slash anymore! Champions of Norath and the BG: Dark Alliance games were a ton of fun. Also the...

Man the art is so off-the-hook on these books, I know I'm a moron and unrepentant aesthete but a big part of what made me love RPGs in the first place was "absolutely great art", and these books have got it, when still relatively few modern RPGs do. Though to be clear there is an obvious upslope...

Yeah, and I'm not sure that's always great either - I think there's a fairly easy design solution, which is: A) If there are multiple distinct enemies, each PC can only be "attacked" (i.e. forced to make a reaction check) by one enemy each round, and probably the most numerous/weakest enemies...

I mean, you mention Shadowrun but that's a really good supporting example for me! Specifically Shadowrun was like, continuous though 1E to 3E, with a clear effort to maintain the same tone, the same game focus, the same basic way of operating the rules and so on, and then it got licenced...

Also (putting this in another post to stop excessive re-editing of my previous), re: D&D having changed over that time, it has, but I don't think that particular aspect they're pointing to is actually true to the degree they're suggesting. Let me quote a bit: Is that really more true now...

I think the game they're designing will probably be fine, and they can definitely make whatever decisions they like about it in that sense. I think it's pretty messed-up that they're using the Dungeon World name for it, though, in exactly the same way bigger companies purchasing or re-using the...

Quite! This reminds me of those sites which say they estimate someone's "net worth", and like, random podcasters (not even Twitch streamers or the like) get insane valuations. The "Behind the Bastards" guy got "valued" at $64m for example, and he was very clear that he is certainly not a...