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I echo something that Colville said in the video. For me, as soon as you play or DM a few different tables with different people, it becomes incredibly obvious that most people play the game very differently. As he says, some universals have been mostly settled. I've never DMed for players that...

Cairn first edition and the newly released Cairn 2nd.

I use AI to generate ideas, look for words and generate some descriptions. For example, I might ask: "Write to me three weird concepts for dungeons found deep in the mountains." I might run the prompt a few time and find and interesting idea or two from which I work. "Give me three visible...

Most games are not profitable. Profitability has actually been difficult to hit. AAA games are costing more and more and reaching thresholds where you need a huge success to be profitable. Indie games is even worse. Of course there's a few dozen games every year that sell a good amount of copies...

If it's Baldur's Gate 4, it will need to be much smaller in scope or ambition to be good. There are very few studios that have the track records, experience and toolset of Larian. You can't just magically get some people together and start a new studio, or take another studio and just pivot them...

Is the first edition also the first of two? Or is the second edition drastically different and only it will warrant a second volume?

First edition! How's the second one?

I've shifted to Playing at the World by Jon Peterson. It's been on my shelves for more than a year. I like it so far. I had read about the wargaming roots of the hobby but this book really breaks it down. It's interesting to see how different games and designs each gave to D&D part of what makes...

I don't know if I'll ever get to play the game. But it's honestly such a gem of interesting ideas and things done differently. I'm not done with it but it is an interesting read for sure.

Writing rules is very hard. I had to do it for a few board game projects at work and it's one of the hardest communication exercise I had to do. I agree that brevity and clarity are two different things. Clarity can be achieved by adding more words, by being more precise, etc. But it can also...

I'm slowly working on my own system and in the last month I've thought about magic. Right now, I'm leaning more towards having a chance to fail casting the spell that's based on an exhaustion level. The exhaustion level goes up with every spell cast so it becomes harder and harder. Higher level...

That's good to hear. I love Free League and own many of their games!

People seemed surprised when they announced a new edition so soon. I saw quite a few people mentioning that it might be for marketing reasons, to try and profit from Alien: Romulus' release. I hope the new edition was really motivated by a wish to improve the game meaningfully and not just to...

What if it's an endless quiver that can hold a fixed number of arrows, and magically replenishes one arrow every hour. Then you still have to track the arrows?

Lots of pirate-themed games.

I adopted a tool called Notion which I've introduced to my workplace. Since then I use it for a ton of things. It's basically a markdown-equivalent notetaking app with some powerful features like making some relational databases. For RPGs, I have a database of games, and a database of books...

So my girlfriend insisted to watch the remaining episodes. Were now done with Season 2. It might be some of the worst television I've watched. Season 1 felt soulless but inoffensive. Some major departures from the lore immediately killed the show for me, but I was able to non-chalantly cruise...

I have very few positives thing to say about the show, which I'll detail in the other thread. However... [SPOILER FOLLOWING] The shot of Durin swinging that axe at the Balrog was amazing and made me immediately want to play a TTRPG. I love dwarves, they're the best ancestry.

Ah, interesting! I've started web development two years ago in my free time. I also decided to go with Svelte. It's so elegant and easy to work with. My stack is similar, except that I haven't dove in backend yet, so I haven't really touched to Express.

Just out of curiosity, what tech/languages/framework you and/or your team chose to go with to build this?