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I agree—as a Kickstarter add on it made sense, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it as a stand alone produce

I got this from backing one of the kickstarters. Except it was mis-printed, which made it even more confusing. They sent replacements, which were also mis-printed! So they sent another replacement, all of which must have been a huge cost for them.

One of the best things about knave is that it is very lo-fi. It's cheap ($3), and you can easily print it out at home. Someone even did a 1 page version which was genius. And very hackable. Hopefully that remains the case with this KS, and we avoid the usual deluxe-cover-and-stretch-goals...

re: long term campaigns The idea of the "campaign" to my knowledge comes from the wargaming roots of the hobby. Gygax seemed to think of a campaign as such: Moreover, each session was probably longer, taking up the larger portion of an entire weekend day. This idea has survived in trad...

That's interesting, because for me BitD has quite a bit of structure via discrete mechanics; honestly it can be a lot to keep in mind at any one time. Perhaps the distinction is that those mechanics basically operate as a set of extensive qualitative guidelines. E.g. you have reduced position...

Yes, though for that reason they are not representative of the “community” of gamers. Reading Teos’s account plus the discourse on twitter, my take was that the summit was a group of people who were insiders, interested parties who think they help contribute to Wizard’s bottom line and want a...

People are using really intense language to talk about this summit…

A dungeon that I liked: Winter's Daughter by Necrotic Gnome Why I liked it: strong theme (star crossed lovers, faerie connections) holistic and interconnected environment (about 15 total rooms or spaces) combat possible but not necessary traps and social interactions that require skill but...

Honestly, I think trying to make a gazetteer of the outer planes is a fools erand. Even the "Planes of" boxed sets, while evocative in places, don't succeed on this account. The planes are infinite, and each contains several infinite (or at least gigantically large) layers. And yet, those...

Planescape has plenty of fun and whimsy to it as well. The videogame was very noir, but the setting material has a range of tones, with some elements being dark, some whimsical, some weird, and some all three. A lot of it is of a piece with classical faerie tales, actually. In fact, I think...