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I don't think I can disagree with this more. Does the world need another RPG? I don't think so. There are thousands of them available. What we really don't need is a bog standard fantasy game by any particular author. I don't need to hear about dwarves and elves and hobbits (or whatever they...

Draw Steel definitely shows its influences as coming from what Matt likes. It seems to be working for him, as his brand is pretty strong. I'm older than Matt but I think we have a lot of cultural influences in common, so I get where he's coming from even if I don't always agree with it. I think...

I think if you're running PF2 with a VTT, Foundry is 100% the best choice. I'm running Abomination Vaults with it (that I got as a part of a previous Humble Bundle) and my players have been amazed. I also play Roll20 and it's no comparison. There are tons of resources on Youtube for how to...

Not really surprising news, considering how the movie did. I'm sad because I really did enjoy it and wanted to see more. I am amused beyond belief that they are taking games back in house. If making movies is too hard, I wonder how they think that video games will be.

I am not at all surprised that Elon played D&D at some point. Or that he takes issue with WotC. I think both parties will be able to survive this conflict.

While this is interesting news, I'd say it's barely 50/50 that any product discussed here even comes out. I have several friends in the video game industry and they all tell me that making a good game is frightfully hard, and it's getting harder.

As far as Martin goes, I just wonder who will finish the series after he passes. Because it will get finished at that point: too much money involved otherwise. I don't expect to see any more books in the series until that happens, sadly. I'd really like to read them but he has other interests...

I think we're largely on the same page. I just see that "and" part of the sentence and have broken it in two. It may be that the results of playtesting will be that those can be combined. I just am trying to make two points that can be distinct for some players. Now those players or GMs might...

Looking at the 2014 page, which I haven't looked at in about 10 years since I haven't cracked my PHB since a first couple of reads, I'm amazed. There is so much stuff on that list that I would not expect to see in 2024. I would bet that new 5E players have missed about 90% of it. I was just a...

There definitely can be consequence we (and by that I mean I as player/GM and now designer) don't care about. A lot of it is multiple rolls to effectively do the same thing. I have played in many games where you had to make stealth checks and, against all odds, the entire party made it. Even the...

I agree with you 100%. I would really like to know the inspirations behind the current rules. I'm not sure I would be interested in many of the authors, but I would investigate them pretty thoroughly. For a lot of the RPGs I've been looking at recently, I've read or watched all of the source...

This is a really good question, and it relates to the fact that I've been working on this game for a long time. It's older than FitD games, PbtA and even Fate. Back in ancient times, you would see a lot of die rolls made simply because it was just seen as "realistic" to make them. If you were...

As someone who doesn't use Twitter and hasn't joined anything new since Google+ (I'm still bitter about that), I wonder what the over/under is on this one. I have some friends who've announced they are heading there and leaving Twitter. I thought, "As long as you post your family stuff and...

I think you win. That was so good!

It's funny that you mention that because I think I remember reading that when it was new. I was influenced a lot by this for my game design. I must admit that I run every game with the rules I came up with and haven't found a problem. I always tell people that we roll dice when all three of...

I think that the inspirational books section is extremely important for people just coming into the hobby. I've read a lot of RPG books lately from different authors and they have all had an inspirational sources section. It gave me an idea as a reader of that style of game this one was designed...

Just a quick comment: I definitely intend to make my game commercially available. I also hope to back up trucks full of cash from all the money that will be generated. Okay, that last point was completely a joke: there are no big trucks full of money for anyone in RPGs. But there is room for, as...

That's a really good point. I have a section that I model after the Bobs in Office Space (is that too ancient a reference, I wonder?). You talk about "What you do around here." Session zero has you establish what the group actually starts doing. The game is actually about a crisis that occurs...

I have to say that's an interesting perspective. I've read a lot of great RPGs in the last few years. I don't think really any of them needed a "how do you play RPGs". And yet they all had them. And, masochist that I am, I read them. Some of them were interesting because they told me what the...

I think I definitely misspoke if I gave the impression that I was going to do anything genuinely new, or that I was going to set the world on fire. I am firmly of the belief that there's nothing new under the sun as far as RPGs go. What can be different is how you assemble the different...