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Here are some possible criteria folks might use to define a "successful" RPG. I don't necessarily agree with all of them or feel that a product must hit all of them to be successful but thought this list might help fuel the discussion. Is there a published physical book or other permanent...

By these criteria, there are no other successful RPGs but D&D? That was actually sort of the point in me asking the question. That last one the public almost certainly has no access to so we can't use that as a measure.

A while back I posted a thread on "What does it take for an RPG to die?". Now I want to flip the question. What does a "successful" RPG look like? With Daggerheart just released, Shadowdark having completed a gangbuster Kickstarter, MCDM's Flee Mortals coming out soon, Dragonbane running their...

I've been running a hybrid 5e game with three D&D 2024 characters, two Level Up Advanced 5e characters, and one D&D 2014 character. The characters are 12th level at this point and we've been doing this since they were about 9th level. I can't much tell the difference in power between them but we...

This is really interesting. This year we have three different RPGs inspired by D&D 4e: 13th age v 2 (I just got the near-final PDFs a couple of days ago), Daggerheart (PDF on my desktop, physical book on the way), and Draw Steel coming out in a few months. All three also have open community...

Thanks for the reply!

I'm running characters from both systems in a single game. It's a little messy at times but it's fine. I talked about it here:

I'm running all of them and they're all compatible.

What was the percentage cut between you and WOTC? If you can't say, was it because you're under an NDA not to disclose the amount? Did you go to them or did they go to you?

It’s not out yet but Kobold Press has a Planescape style book coming soon.

You'd be surprised...

I haven't run as many Kickstarters as @Morrus but all the ones I ran took two to three weeks to get the funds.

For me, a real game changer is recognizing the difference between a fact and a preference. Game X sucks is very different than Game X isn’t for me. “not for me” is a powerful way to recognize that others can still like something even though we don’t. And, of course, instead of having to put...

Thank you! We're going to start looking at providing support to Let's Quest which is an honest-to-god 501c3 for this sort of thing: https://www.letsquestafterschool.org

We all have our way of prep, of course. I’ve spent a lot of time digging into prep and find my own eight step method to work well for me in lots of systems. I was interested to find out that it’s as easy for me to prep a D&D 2024 and Tales of the Valiant game as it is a Shadowdark or Numenera...

Today in my Tales of the Valiant game, I grabbed a fire drake miniature and had it attack an archer by smashing it into the archer and yelling "rarr". Someone remarked that it made them feel like we're 7 years old again smashing dinosaur toys into one another and I said that was exactly the point.

Thanks for the Grendleroot mention!

I always love me some fine RPG products regardless of publisher but I think the Starter Set is the next big product that can really change the hobby — hopefully bringing more people into the hobby and showing them how cool it is. For that reason, it’s the one I’m most excited for. I’m as...

Yeah, luck is a game changer. It was so fast to put it in all of my 5e games and it took a big load off of me to worry about it. I haven't yet found a good way of communicating to people that they should use points to boost a roll by one or two. I just say something snarky like "do you want to...

Most of my books are in epub to give a stand alone flexible format for computers and mobile devices. I’ve also started releasing books in markdown for Obsidian or other markdown systems. This avoids the need for a centralized service line Beyond to be the only place.