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Before you go any farther on publishing, I'll suggest that you have strangers playtest your game. Either watch them silently or have them record audio/video of it. Just playing with your friends isn't enough; if you plan to publish, I really think you need to see and hear how people other than...

Fair enough. My main point is that it's possibly folly to try and crowdfund until folks know and care about your work; and that may require getting people to play it ahead of time and then to evangelize for you. Publicly playtesting, or running it for people, really helps a lot in my experience.

I doubt you will, but please holler if you want suggestions for people to interview. There are so many talented designers out there!

The best advice I can offer is that when crowdfunding, it is up to you to bring the crowd. By that, I mean that a successful project already has a bunch of people knowledgeable about the game, and wanting to back it on day 1. I encourage you to publish a low cost "ashcan" version - rules only...

Your lineup of guests so far has been SUPERB.

Part of the problem here is one of perceived (or assumed) competence. If you're playing someone who's good at their job, and they do their job well, you get justifiably annoyed at a ruling that makes you feel like a buffoon. Starting PCs in D&D are actually pretty bad at their jobs -- but mid-...

We don't use a battlemap, so online play is as fast or faster for us. We actually get an extra half hour of play in because no one needs to commute. It's different when I use a game with a battlemap, though.

Yeah, we have an investigation-heavy game and biweekly (if we're lucky) 3 hour games. I start every game session with a summary of what's going on/known, and we use a Discord channel to summarize clues and ongoing plot threads.

Note - because we just went on Daylights Savings Time but the UK hasn't, this takes place at 6pm Eastern today, not 5pm.

(Hiya, and thanks! Since I took a break from ENW I've written two GUMSHOE games, run two 10-yr-long D&D campaigns (and started two more Swords of the Serpentine campaigns), played and run a TON of indie RPGs, watched 124 crappy shark movies (all during the pandemic), and played in a weekly 5e...

Yeah, that's a clear message! And as a GM it is FRUSTRATING. When this happens to me, it always feels personal.

Every single one of these games is great -- and several players/friends worked on Wildermyth! So I'm happy no matter what.

I've used Swords of the Serpentine to try and catch the WFRP feel (with less lethality) and been happy with the results. I think in your shoes I'd explore keeping the adventure but converting to a system that better sings for the players. If players don't give a damn about rules but love action...

Fireball is deeply, deeply satisfying.

"Man, those players are crafty."

This sounds fantastic!

From a perspective of three games published (Owl Hoot Trail, TimeWatch, Swords of the Serpentine), and two games in playtesting: the hardest part is actually putting in the scut work needed to finish it. Ideas are simple, playtesting was simple, starting it was simple, and the end-run to the...

You just made me laugh, because my new game has Professions and people improve their General and Investigative abilities by improving the ability's Rank. It doesn't feel like D&D, mind you! But you nailed the nomenclature precisely. :D

Giant sequoias and implacable zombies.

I want to mention my love of Marvel SAGA, the card-based RPG put out by Mike Selinker when he was at WotC in the 90s. Man, that game was fun.