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There's a ton listed in the rulebook, about 10 times more in Tales of Xadia (check out the free Rules Primer at the ToX website if you don't want to splurge on the amazingly beautiful rulebook) and Google "Marvel Heroic datafiles" to get about a thousand more. You'll have more SFX and example...

Have you seen The Arcanist's Toolkit for Cortex Prime magic systems?

I think once the Spotlight volumes reach distribution channels beyond the KS backers, I think that's when a LOT of people are finally going to "get" Cortex. Which is honestly about a decade late, unfortunately, but not like it can't be capitalized on by Dire Wolf once it finally does happen...

Super-specific point: The beauty of the Cortex Prime system is how well it works regardless of which mods you use. The system is already play tested and balanced, you just need to pull together a few GMCs/antagonists, of which there are literally hundreds already prebuilt for the game. You just...

Interesting! I hadn't specifically heard the player-burnout angle, but it does make a lot of sense. I saw a lot of that during my late 3.5E days among a few of my players, and it seemed especially hard to bring newer people in because of the sheer amount of options before them. (I feel like 5E...

You gotta have every document notarized, and that can add up way faster than you'd think. (AAA membership helps!) I suspect the lawyer alone is very expensive for this, as they are overseeing it on the regular, from the sounds of things.

They played coy, even back when Upper Works was released. But I very specifically recall Jeff Talanian stating that they were "deep into" the next few levels. They clearly already had an overview of all the levels -- see the list above in this thread of what sets were announced -- and hopefully...

Exactly. I've run it both ways, with Yggsburgh as a small city/large town between Greyhawk and the castle, and simply replacing Yggsburgh entirely with Greyhawk. Either works, and notably keeping the other wilderness stuff from the Yggsburgh book still works just fine, too. There's maybe a...

I'll take this a step farther: Saga was easily in the top 5 worst books I've ever read. Possibly top 3. Maybe...maybe even #1. On the flip side, I find Yggsburgh to be a fantastic example of a decent-sized but still pretty contained hex map region and city all in one book, and Upper Works to be...

Glad to see things improving. It's unfortunate with how much growth the TTRPG field has seen over the past two decades that pay is still so low, and creators in this field are still largely seen as such niche hobbyists that it doesn't translate to considerably more pay. It's still a weirdly...

Agreed. Save all those folks for some big "inspired-by" dungeon or something. Something Jayquaysed to heck, and packaged in an awesome box set with tons of poster maps. Probably with a Beadle & Grimm special edition or something ;-) For the Castle Greyhawk/Zagyg fans, what many really want is...

Here are some: Different wandering encounter tables are influenced by which lairs are nearby. There's a sense of "real" ecology throughout. Several factions have prisoners from other factions, which supports all sorts of potential hijinks between them when the players get involved. There are...

Castle Zagyg: Upper Works is very much in the same vein. I quite like it and have no problem with that, as the upper works and first dungeon level (the Storerooms) IMHO should be quintessential D&D as Gygax originally envisioned and ran it, and to that end it is a success. There is a ton of...

That's a tough one. The differences are many and fundamental, in some ways, but they are all aimed at the same general "itch." If it helps at all: Level Up's Monstrous Menagerie is by far my favorite of the current/new school monster books (The Monster Overhaul is my fave for OSR games), but...

They'd be foolish not to add Goodman's OAR releases. Several of them leverage monsters from Mord's and other books, so the workload is actually that much less. (Meaning, only slightly, but still.)

I'm sure you're safe. I can't imagine KP going in that direction with it, but maybe I could get a sidebar, at least ;-P

Certainly didn't mean to insinuate it was never there, only that it wasn't there in this current form, and this current form is an improvement IMHO. I'll even go further and specifically spell out that Perception and Stealth as DCs should inform monster/NPC attacks flipping to DCs so that...

Really liking the monster stat blocks! I love how Perception and Stealth are right out there, and how terse everything is inside of the stat block. I hope that some of the additional material found in monster entries in Monstrous Menagerie (A5E) and Monster Overhaul (Skerples) find their way...

I did a few adventures. Then I realized how much I rewrite adventures, and got rid of most of them, save for a few gems and curiosities (Greyhawk Ruins, Caverns of Thracia, etc.). Now it's all setting material, all the way down. Since I primarily use the Realms (and a dash of Greyhawk), that's...

It'll be interesting to see what SRDs will be the first to go with ORC licensing. What will set the baseline for the future? As someone publishing under the OGL, the huge backlog of material is extremely helpful. It is also daunting and sometimes problematic, not only simply because WOTC could...